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West Asia
Syrian children wait for arrival of helping hand on a tree at refugee camp in Lebanon
A Syrian refugee boy, sits outside his tent as his family are seen in the background, at a small refugee camp, in Ketermaya village southeast of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday March 14, 2013. The number of registered Syrian refugees jumped 10 percent in just one week to more than 1.1 million,…
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Turkish President welcomes Romanian FM at his office in Ankara
Photo released by the Presidential Palace of Turkey shows Turkish President Abdullah Gul meeting with visiting Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean at the presidential Cankaya Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on March 14, 2013. <Xinhua>
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Libyans attend a traing workshop for maintenance of Holy Koran in Tripoli
Libyans practise during the training workshop for maintenance of the Holy Koran on the first day of its launch in the Libyan capital Tripoli, March 13, 2013. <Xinhua/Hamza Turkia>
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West Asia
UN Under-Secretary-General comforts Syrian children at a refuge camp in Turkey
Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, greets Syrian refugee children at a school during her visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Kilis, near the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkey, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency…
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West Asia
Kurdish rebels free 8 Turkish soldiers under their detention as a goodwill gesture
Turkish prisoners, left, stand after their release in the northern Iraqi city of Dahuk, after being held for two years in northern Iraq by the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq freed eight captured Turkish soldiers and officials on Wednesday as part…
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A street vendor in Tunis sits on ground after setting himself ablaze
An unidentified Tunisian street vendor is sitting on the ground after he doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Tunis, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. The street vendor set himself on fire in Tunisia’s capital, reviving memories of the self-immolation that helped spark the Arab Spring uprisings. Burns…
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West Asia
Clashes between Palestinian Muslim groups in Lebanon leaves 1 dead and property damage
A Palestinian woman, carries her daughter as she walks past damages after a clashes that was erupted between the Palestinian Fateh Movement and the 2Islamic group of Fateh al-Islam, in the Ein el-Hilweh camp near the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday March 12, 2013. Lebanese security officials say clashes…
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Bahraini anti-gov’t protesters hold noisy rally to drum up support for planned strike
Bahraini protesters bang on pans and use compressed air horns to sound out anti-government slogans in Sanabis, Bahrain, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Riot police stormed the protest, firing tear gas and making arrests. Protesters in opposition strongholds nationwide held similar noisy rallies Tuesday night, banging on drums, metal trays and…
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West Asia
[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑦
[11] On the way back home Khodeir drives slowly along Cairo’s busy streets with elevated bumps, repeating his familiar sentence: “Cairo his become just a big bump with a million children who play with our cars. As he drives fast along the Nile, Donia asks herself: “What attracts me to…
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East Asia
Israeli ambassador tells of the creative economy’s driving force
As Korea sets its sails to make a “creative economy,” which will create new jobs through the development of science, technology and IT, it looks to the start-up nation of Israel as a model. Israel has a population of 7.8 million and an area of approximately 20,700 square kilometers, about…
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