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Breaking News Fri, 15 Nov 2013
People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012.
Iraq Ashoura   Iraq Ashoura Bombing   Photos   Terrorism in Iraq  
 Dawn 
Violence across Iraq kills 23 on eve of Ashura
BAGHDAD: Violence across Iraq, including bombings against Shias killed 23 people on Wednesday as worshippers massed in a shrine city on the eve of major commemoration rituals often targeted by militan... (photo: AP / Karim Kadim)
Kashmiri Shiite Muslims gather during a religious procession held on the seventh day of Ashura, in Srinagar Tuesday on November 12, 2013. as they remember the slaying of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson in southern Iraq in the seventh century. During the Shiite Muslim holy month of Muharram, large processions are formed and the devotees parade the streets holding banners and carrying models of the mausoleum of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his people, who fell at Karbala. Shias show their grief and sorrow by inflicting wounds on their own bodies with sharp metal tied to chain to depict the sufferings of the martyrs.
Festival   Iran   Photos   Shiite   Wikipedia: Day of Ashura  
 BBC News 
Challenging the image of Ashura in Iran
As Shia communities around the world mark Ashura, the image of the festival in Iran has become one of scenes of black-clad mourners and grief. As BBC Persian's Siavash Ardalan reports, this is pa... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks during World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011.  Huffington Post 
Sarah Palin Compares Federal Debt To Slavery
Speaking at a conservative fundraiser in Iowa on Saturday evening, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin compared the United States' debt to slavery, claiming t... (photo: AP / Maeil Business News Paper, Lee Seung-hwan)
Debt   Iowa   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Sarah Palin  
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses an international press corps after he and fellow representatives of the P5+1 concluded talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 10, 2013, that focused on Iran's nuclear capabilities.  Al Jazeera 
Strangers in the night: What can we really expect from a US-Iran thaw?
More than three decades, and a whole lot of bitter history, after the Iranian revolution of 1977-1979, high ranking Iranian and American officials are openly meeting and exchanging more than glances. ... (photo: US DoS)
Arab Spring   Nuclear Iran   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
Top Stories
Hotspot issues in Africa, Middle East remain UN Security Council focus CNTV
Hotspot issues in Africa, Middle East remain UN Security Council focus
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Hotspot issues in Africa and the Middle East continued to be the focus of the UN Security Council in the past year, the rotating presid... (photo: UN / Tobin Jones)
Issues   Photos   Security   Somalia   Wikipedia: Somalia  
In this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Emomali Rakhmon, President of Tajikistan, Al Jazeera
Tajikistan's Rakhmon re-elected president
Tajikistan's President Imomali Rakhmon has won a new seven-year term in Wednesday's election, receiving 83.1 percent of the vote after all ballots were cou... (photo: AP / Gero Breloer)
Constitution   Imomali Rakhmon   Photos   Tajikistani Election   Wikipedia: Tajikistani presidential election, 2013  
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, finishes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, at the White House in Washington. The Examiner
Obama and al-Qaeda on same side? Syrian rebels gather al-Qaeda forces via Turkey
Al-Qaeda fighters are going into Syria in the hundreds, and they are arriving mostly through the Turkish border. In an exclusive CNN report, video shows foreigners from E... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
Photos   Qaeda   Rebels   Syria   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
In this photo taken with a mobile phone on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, police look down on a burnt out army personal carrier following an attack by Boko Haram in Damaturu, Nigeria. Reuters
Militants kill 70 in northeast Nigeria attacks: officials
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed 70 people in three attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent days, officials said on Monday, a s... (photo: AP)
Boko Haram   Goodluck Jonathan   Nigeria Conflict   Photos   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
A supporter of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi holds an old presidential campaign poster of him with Arabic that reads, "Mohammed Morsi, president for Egypt, 2012, resurrection is the will of the people," during a protest a day before the trial of the former president taking place at a police academy in an eastern Cairo district, in Egypt, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013. CNN
Egypt: Morsy trial set to start
November 3, 2013 -- Updated 2115 GMT (0515 HKT) | Cairo (CNN) -- The trial of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy is set to start on Monday, four months after a milit... (photo: AP / Eman Helal)
Court   Egypt   Mohamed Morsi   Photos   Wikipedia: Mohamed Morsi  
In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, new Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, center, holds a laptop computer, flanked by his comrades in Sararogha of Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan along the Afghanistan border The Irish Times
Pakistan says Mehsud killing has destroyed peace process
The Pakistani government accused the US of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the pro... (photo: AP / Ishtiaq Mehsud)
Pakistani Taliban   Peace   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Hakimullah Mehsud  
Palestinian relatives gather around a body of Hamas militant Rabea Baraka, 23, during his funeral outside of his family house in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. San Francisco Chronicle
Israel bombs Gaza tunnel; 4 Hamas militants killed
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft bombed what the military described as a "terror tunnel" used by Hamas in Gaza and the militant Palestinian group said three of its fig... (photo: AP / Adel Hana)
Gaza Violence   Hamas   Israeli Military   Photos   Wikipedia: GazaIsrael conflict  
An armored Chinese paramilitary vehicle is stationed near Tiananmen Square across the street from Tiananmen Gate, the site of an incident Monday where a car plowed through a crowd before it crashed and burned in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. BBC News
Tiananmen crash 'incited by Islamists'
China's top security official says a deadly crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square was incited by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. | The crash occurred on Mond... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)
China & Terrorism   Photos   Tiananmen Square   Uighur   Wikipedia: 2013 Tiananmen Square car attack  
Before the start of the second working session of G20. Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper (left) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron. The Guardian
David Cameron to unveil plans for £200m Islamic bond
World Islamic Economic Forum will hear prime minister outlining plans for Sukuk bond compliant with Islamic law | Boris Johnson was forced to order TfL to rewrite the Emi... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
Investment   Islamic Bond   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: Sukuk  
Bangladeshi riot policemen stand guard on a street outside the office of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as a man walks past them during a general strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. Jakarta Globe
Fresh Violence Erupts Across Crisis-Hit Bangladesh
By Agence France-Presse on 4:18 pm October 28, 2013. | Category International, World | Tags: Bangladesh, Bangladesh protests | Police officers try to detain a man who was... (photo: AP / A.M. Ahad)
Bangladesh Violence   Elections   Photos   S Asia   Wikipedia: Next Bangladeshi general election  
Islam Women Terrorism
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- Warsi: Christian minorities 'endangered' in Middle
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Nigerian Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru at the U.S. Department of State in Washington
State Dept. Calls Group in Nigeria Terrorists
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- Israel, Iran and the Bomb
- Syrian air raid kills rebel commander in Aleppo - activists
- Old partners split ‘formally’
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Hagel falls for notion of ME issues primacy
Hagel falls for notion of ME issue’s primacy
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- People affiliated to RSS plan TV channel to educate Muslims
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- Iran's strategy for controlling the Middle East
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Rohingya refugees queue up for food at a temporary shelter after being rescued by Acehnese fishermen Thursday , Feb. 5, 2009, in Idie Rayeuk, Aceh province, Indonesia.
Rohingya refugees sceptical of Burmese reforms
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Society & Culture Education
- Iran's culture minister defends Facebook
- FPI Angered Over Sinetron Actor’s ‘Fake’ C
- Iran's culture minister defends Facebook
- Tide Of Syria War Favors Assad As The West Pushes For Peace
Prime Minister of Belgium Addressing Nineteenth Special Session of Assembly The General Assembly holds a special session (Earth Summit+5) on 23 - 27 June for the overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21 since the 1992 Earth Summit.  Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium, addressing the nineteenth special  session of the General Assembly.
UN says Afghan opium production hits record high
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- People affiliated to RSS plan TV channel to educate Muslims
- Westminster University students ‘furious’ after controve
- Dr. Aziz Quraishi invites Shadan Group to start Medical Coll
- Montgomery County criticized over public school religious ho
Malala Yousafzai, the young education rights campaigner from Pakistan, speaks at the Malala Day UN Youth Assembly.
Pakistani private schools ban Malala’s book
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