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Why UK supports 'vicious' Bahraini regime

Edit Press TV 12 Nov 2016
The United Kingdom is supporting “vicious autocracies” throughout the Persian Gulf to suppress the masses, and its opening of a new military base in Bahrain is in line with that “outdated imperial mindset,” says a British scholar and analyst ... Persian Gulf,” including Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Shakespeare noted....

Tehran hosts exhibition of handmade carpets

Edit Press TV 12 Nov 2016
The event seeks to introduce Iranian carpet to foreign ......

Platform of South Pars 20th phase installed in Persian Gulf

Edit Irna 12 Nov 2016
Bushehr, Nov 12, IRNA – Platform weighing 2,600 tons was installed Saturday was successfully installed on its jacket in Persian Gulf waters in the context of the 20th Phase of South Pars oil and gas field ... ....

Comment on Spurs’ Popovich on Trump’s election: ‘That’s disgusting’ by oldertimer808

Edit Star Advertiser 12 Nov 2016
The bad karma is on Hillary Clinton. The devil was with the Clintons for many years. God chose Trump to lead America out of the darkness created by the left wing. Why do you suppose the evangelicals voted for Trump. We cannot allow the globalist ......

IMF approves $12-billion loan to support Egypt’s economy

Edit Press TV 12 Nov 2016
Officials have said that they aim to secure an additional $7-billion loan annually from other lenders to bring the total reserves to above $30 billion ... Terrorism has plagued the once-booming tourism sector of Egypt while people blame Sisi for wasting billions of dollars in aid from wealthy Arab states of the Persian Gulf region through launching mega projects such as the controversial expansion of the Suez Canal....

Chattanooga veterans need help turning houses into homes

Edit Times Free Press 12 Nov 2016
Ask 51-year-old Persian Gulf War veteran Jesse Buckley what he says to encourage people to donate items in the city's Veterans Supplies & Action Day and he responds by flashing a mason ring on one hand and a 1982 high school state championship football ring on the other ... Buckley said he was a chief warrant officer who flew helicopters in the U.S ... The city and the program, Mission Accomplished....

ECC pays tribute to military

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 12 Nov 2016
TARBORO — This year’s Veterans Day Memorial and Recognition Ceremony on Friday at Edgecombe Community College featured a female veteran as keynote speaker and an emphasis on the high number of suicides among veterans ... Harris, who has retired from the U.S. Army, is a Persian Gulf War combat veteran and the founder of the Raleigh-based Women Veterans Support Services....

Koban police boxes going multilingual ahead of 2020 Games

Edit The Japan News 12 Nov 2016
The Yomiuri ShimbunAhead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the National Police Agency has been allocating foreign-speaking police officers for around-the-clock help at koban police boxes at tourist sites or in downtown areas busy with foreign tourists. The police officers have been or will be assigned to six koban police boxes across Kanagawa, Aichi, Kyoto, Osaka prefectures and Tokyo ... They work in shifts around the clock....

There's shimmer in the Valley

Edit Deccan Herald 12 Nov 2016
What they buy from these shops are utilitarian items for daily or ceremonial use, reflecting the continuing of a generations-old Valley custom to use beautifully engraved copper vessels ... Just in case you are wondering how the samovar works, here it is ... Around 13th century AD, with the arrival of Persian artisans to the Valley, the craft got further refined and the technique of engraving on metal came into focus....

The return of saint soldier

Edit The Hindu 12 Nov 2016
While some admiration for the soldier saint must have inadvertently translated on to the screen, the filmmaker insists he has remained as authentic to the real life hero as he could ... Even though Banda Singh Bahadur is a familiar figure, I went through all the books written on him including the Persian translations of his life ... If the film was on a Rajput figure, I would have to show the film to a body representing that community....

Solving cultural quandaries

Edit The Hindu 12 Nov 2016
The book has been edited by Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield and published by Open Book Publishers ... It deals with the Persian treatise “Mir’ at al-Makhluqat (Mirror of the Creatures) written in 1631-32 by eminent Mughal Sufi Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rahman Chishti, who was a descendant of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Haqq of Rudauli, a town in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh....

EVANGELOS MARINAKIS: “We can make history together!” (Olympiacos FC)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2016
The 1st Greek-Chinese Cities Forum came to completion, Friday night (11/11/2016), in the most successful and ceremonious way. The 'G ... Besides, during the conference that preceded at Zappeion, both sides co-signed a friendship agreement ... One of the most historic places of human history, standing next to the place with Greeks, under the command of Themistocles, subdued the Persians under Xerxes in the historic naval battle of Salamis....

UK reviving imperial system with Bahrain base: Author

Edit Press TV 11 Nov 2016
The base is the first such facility being opened by Britain in 40 years ... “This is an attempt by Britain to reestablish its imperial footprint in the Persian Gulf area,” Colin Cavell, an author and lecturer, said on Thursday night.  ... Cavell further denounced the Bahraini regime’s motives behind allowing the UK to establish a military base in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom....
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