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West Asia
A Palestinian refugee girl eats bread in poverty-stricken Gaza Strip
Palestinian Palestinian refugee children play in front of their family house in a poverty-stricken quarter in northern Gaza Strip town Beit Lahiya on April 28, 2013. Reports said that an increasing number of Gazan families are falling further into poverty, with unemployment rates at over 30 percent according to 2012…
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West Asia
A horse race doping scandal in UAE leads to global ban on steroids
A racehorse trains during a morning session at the Godolphin Club in this file photo dated Wednesday March 23, 2011, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The doping scandal that led to the downfall of Godolphin trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni is now helping fuel a call for an outright ban on anabolic…
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Building future bridge of global peace
The great monk and poet Cho Oh-hyun’s poetry published in Egypt This week I got a message from Cairo, sent by the editor of “Shi’r” magazine, telling me that my translated volume of poetry; entitled Far-Off Saint written by the great monk and poet Mr. Cho Oh-hyun, has been published…
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West Asia
[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑬
[19] They walked silently, Emad’s heavy, angry steps, his uncle Nabil’s light, but quick steps to catch up with his nephew. Nabil felt he let down Emad and his sister. He wondered what mad Nargis did out of home. She does her prayers regularly. She’s modest and brilliant, though her…
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East Asia
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits UAE to enhance economic ties
In this image released by the Emirates News Agency, WAM , Sheik Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, center right, escorts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, upon his arrival in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Abe vowed Wednesday to promote exports of Japan’s nuclear infrastructure to the…
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West Asia
Egyptian workers chant anti-Gov’t slogans during Labour Day protest
Egyptian workers and activists chant anti-Government slogans during a protest in Tahrir square marking the world Labour day in Cairo, May 1, 2013. Dozens of national factories and companies were sold to the private sector during Hosni Mubarak’s regime causing unemployment of thousands of Egyptian workers whom still lacking proper…
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West Asia
A huge environmental crime in Egypt committed by Qatari LNG carrier
On January 1st, 2009, one of the world’s largest Q-Max LNG carriers was delivered to Nakilat and Qatargas Operating Company Limited at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., Okpo shipyard on Geoje Island, South Korea. The Nakilat, the Qatar gas transport companyr, owned 263,000 CBM LNG Carrier “Lijmiliya” that…
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West Asia
Israeli settlers protest against deadly attack in West Bank
Israeli security forces guard to prevent possible clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians at Tapuach, a major junction in the northern West Bank in the evening of April 30, 2013, after a Jewish settler was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man here in the morning. Hundreds of Jewish settlers…
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West Asia
Egyptian President Morsi meets with Qatari PM Hamad Al bin Jassim Thani
A handout picture released by the Egyptian presidency shows Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (R) meeting with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani in Cairo on April 30, 2013. <Xinhua/Egyptian Presidency>
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West Asia
Iranian President Ahmadinejad speaks at Islamic Awakening Conference
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the closing ceremony of the World Conference of Ulama and Islamic Awakening in Tehran, Iran on April 30, 2013. About 700 clerics and scholars from Muslim and non-Muslim countries attended the two-day conference. <Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz>
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