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The Latest: Solar plane crossing Pacific reaches California
Edit Boston Herald 24 Apr 2016
OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN — The Latest on the flight of a solar-powered airplane from Hawaii to California in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe (all times local).. 5.30 p.m ... The plane took off last March from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, and it has made stops in Oman, Myanmar, China, Japan and Hawaii. ___ ... ___ ... The aircraft started its journey in March 2015 from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. ....
Tehran offered Syrian president's family asylum in Iran: Intelligence Minister
Edit Press TV 24 Apr 2016
During the 34-day war, known as the July War, Israeli regime waged a full-scale war on the Lebanese soil and killed some 1,300 people of the Arab country, displacing about a million others. The war also severely damaged Lebanese civil infrastructure ... Iran has sent military advisers to Syria to contribute to the Arab country’s fight against terrorists wreaking havoc there ... ....
In Damascus, an uneasy stability boosts Syria's Assad
Edit Topix 24 Apr 2016
In this Saturday, April 16, 2016 photo, a woman shops at the Hamadiyah market, or souk in Arabic, that was named after the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II, in the Old city of Damascus, Syria. In Damascus, it is easy to forget the war beyond ... ....
Do you agree with Southwest Airlines? - Letters to the Editor
Edit The Dallas Morning News 24 Apr 2016
Regarding Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, the Arabic-speaking passenger who was taken off the plane and questioned because he was discussing ISIS on the phone, Southwest Airlines does not owe him or anyone else an apology for fulfilling their safety responsibilities ... American passenger plane being a Muslim, pull out a cellphone and speak Arabic about ISIS....
Spain commemorates the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' death
Edit Times Union 24 Apr 2016
Events took place throughout the country celebrating the author of "Don Quixote," one of the most influential books in world literature and a work generally regarded as the precursor of the modern novel ... tradition and modernity, as Cervantes did." ... Modern research has revealed details about Cervantes that have increased interest in him and his work....
Adding heft to diplomacy, India to send flotilla of warships to Persian Gulf
Edit The Times of India 24 Apr 2016
India is dispatching a flotilla of warships to the Persian Gulf to add military heft to its ongoing stepped-up diplomatic outreach to countries of the region, while striking a fine balance between Sunni-led Arab states like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait on one hand and the Shiite Iran on the other ... establishment is cranking up ties with the Arab....
Real people in my books — Qaisra Shahraz
Edit Dawn 24 Apr 2016
I was interested in how, in a developing country like Pakistan, it shapes a woman’s life and I wanted to explore that with a modern, educated women who has it all, but at the end of the day, she is still being shaped in terms of decision-making in her life by her parents ... Zarri Bano had to be modern and glamourous, she had to be a good heroine and ......
More Bombs For Baghdad; 310 Killed in Iraq
Edit Antiwar 24 Apr 2016
Peshmerga forces are strengthening their defenses in the Kirkuk region but deny that the new trenches and walls are to mark an independent Kurdistan’s future borders. At least 310 were killed and 88 were wounded.. Airstrikes on Mosul left 36 civilians dead. Two women were executed ... In Baghdad, a car bomb killed three people and wounded 11 more in Arab Jabour....
Spain faulted for its low-key commemoration of Cervantes
Edit The Seattle Times 24 Apr 2016
While Britain went all out to honor William Shakespeare, with a yearlong slate of high-profile events, Spanish officials have been accused of not doing enough to promote Miguel de Cervantes, whose “Don Quixote” is considered a foundational text of modern fiction ... ....
A game of Civil War-era baseball in Paterson
Edit North Jersey 24 Apr 2016
Men dressed in heavy cotton uniforms were playing a game awfully similar to modern-day baseball, but they pitched underhand, hit with crude wooden bats and fielded without gloves ... ....
Colorado Springs police ramping up plans for new southeast-side Sand Creek substation
Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 24 Apr 2016
The Colorado Springs Police Department's aging, cramped Sand Creek Division substation on the city's southeast side will be replaced with a modern $10 million to $14 million facility on a nearby site that will be more than twice as big, according to plans recently submitted to the city's Land Use Review Division ... Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette ... ....
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