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File - People make their way, at the Baharestan Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, as Sajjil, right, and Qadr-F, missiles are displayed, in an Iran's Revolutionary Guards hardware display in the "Sacred Defense Week" commemorating 31st anniversary of outset of Iran-Iraq war. Iran test fires long range missiles, amid nuclear tensions
| Iran test-fired long range missiles on Saturday during a naval exercise in the Gulf, the | semi-official Fars news agency said, following a threat by Iran to close shipping lanes if the West imposes... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi) Ha'aretz
Defence   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters hold a banner reading in Arabic ' No for beating civilians in Syria', during an anti-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad' in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 24, 2011. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters gathered near the Syrian embassy in Cairo following the weekly Friday prayers chanting anti-Syrian regime slogans and protesting what they claimed ' The Syrian regime brutality against civilians' Reading Arab-Islamic Awakenings and OWSM
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | In "Bowling Alone," Robert Putnam writes that television watching, especially dependence upon television for entertainment and news, are closely correl... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) WorldNews.com
Arab World   Islam   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: Arab Spring  
A bullet-riddled windshield is seen during a government-organized media tour in the flashpoint city of Homs in central Syria, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011. Anti-government protesters rally in Syria
December 30, 2011 -- Updated 1212 GMT (2012 HKT) 0 | Cairo (CNN) -- Large-scale anti-government protests and more violence unfolded across Syria Friday, with opposition groups calling on demonstrators... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi) CNN
Mideast   Photos   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011 Syrian uprising  
People walk past fallen sign boards and the trash caused by heavy winds in Pondicherry, India, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. India's weather office has warned residents along parts of the country's southeastern coast that Cyclone Thane is likely to cause heavy rains and gale-force winds. 11 killed as Cyclone Thane hits southeast India
| NEW DELHI - A cyclone brought heavy rains and gale-force winds to India's southeastern coast, killing at least 11 people, uprooting trees and damaging homes. | The India Meteorological Department sa... (photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi) The State
Cyclone   Disaster   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Cyclone Thane  
In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, presides over a national memorial service for his late father Kim Jong Il at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea vows no softening despite new leader
| PYONGYANG, North Korea—North Korea warned the world Friday there would be no softening of its position toward South Korea's government after Kim Jong Il's death as Pyongyang strengthened his s... (photo: AP) Denver Post
Defence   Photos   Politics   Pyongyang   Wikipedia: Kim Jong-un  
In this Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 photo, people stand beside the trailer of a tractor carrying the bodies of people mistakenly killed by Turkey's air force, near the Turkish village of Ortasu in Sirnak, Turkey. Kurdish rebels call for 'uprising' after air strike
Kurdish separatists in Turkey on Friday called for an "uprising" after an air force raid killed 35 villagers near the Iraqi border in what the ruling party admitted could have been a blunder. | "We ur... (photo: AP) Jakarta Globe
Kurd News   Photos   Protest   Turkey   Wikipedia: 2011 Kurdish protests in Turkey  
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