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• Pakistan and Iran Gas Pipeline Project

  02 March 2013 ( #Tehran, #United States, #Pakistan and Iran Gas Pipeline Project, #Asif Ali Zardari, #Dawn, #Iran, #Pakistan, #Pipeline transport, #Pasni )

  After a wait of almost two decades, the groundbreaking of $7.5 billion Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline will be performed on March 11 on the Pak-Iran border by the presidents of the two countries. Agreements for opening two more border crossings (Gabd and Pasni)...

• Other side of Hurricane Sandy

  23 February 2013 ( #Haiti, #United States, #Sandy, #Cuba, #Dominican Republic, #Arab News, #Jeddah, #Hurricane Sandy, #2010 Haiti earthquake )

  Other side of Hurricane Sandy Wednesday 7 November 2012 Last Update 6 November 2012 9:31 pm Unfortunately, world media have failed to show another side of Hurricane Sandy while focusing all their coverage on the United States. The other side of the disaster...

• Many Malalas in Pakistan

  23 February 2013 ( #Birmingham, #Larkana, #Taliban, #Queen Elizabeth Hospital, #Malala, #Arab News, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #Demographics of Pakistan )

  Wednesday 17 October 2012 Last Update 17 October 2012 1:54 am According to media reports, Malala Yousufzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head at point-blank range by the Taleban, has reached the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham,...

• Media attack on Mursi baseless

  23 February 2013 ( #President of Egypt, #Maadi, #Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, #Muslim Brotherhood, #Arab News, #Cairo, #Reuters, #Islamism, #Egypt )

  A supporter of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi confronts Hend Mokhtar (L), a journalist of Al-Youm Al-Sabea, whom the crowd does not want covering their rally in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Maadi, south of Cairo on Sunday. (Reuters)...

• PA move leaves Israel, US in the lurch

  23 February 2013 ( #West Bank, #United Nations, #United States, #Palestinian National Authority, #Gaza, #United Nations General Assembly, #Palestinian people, #Arab News, #Israel )

  Palestinians celebrate in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday after the General Assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. (AFP) Saturday 1 December 2012 Last Update 30 November 2012 8:12 pm In a historic move, the UN General...

• Polio vaccination campaign in Pakistan

  23 February 2013 ( #Lahore, #United Nations, #Poliomyelitis, #Arab News, #Vaccination, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #North Waziristan, #Health care provider )

  Pakistani polio vaccination workers carry placards during a protest against the killing of their colleagues in Lahore on Friday. (AFP) ARAB NEWS Saturday 22 December 2012 Last Update 21 December 2012 5:41 pm Killing of 10 health workers, mostly women,...

• Fallout of Petraeus scandal

  23 February 2013 ( #John R. Allen, #United States, #United States Secretary of Defense, #NATO, #David Petraeus, #Arab News, #Jeddah, #Afghanistan, #Leon Panetta )

  David Petraeus Wednesday 14 November 2012 Last Update 13 November 2012 4:29 pm According to media reports, the Pentagon has said that the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged “inappropriate communications”...

• Countering terror in Pakistan

  23 February 2013 ( #Mobile phone, #Muharram, #Interior ministry, #Counter-terrorism, #Rehman Malik, #Arab News, #Terrorism, #Jeddah, #Pakistan )

  According to media reports, Pakistan’s government has suspended mobile phone services in major cities to prevent terror attacks on Muharram processions after 40 people were killed in last two days prior to the ban. In his recent press conference Interior...

• Afghan quagmire

  23 February 2013 ( #United Nations, #Kabul, #War in Afghanistan (2001–present), #NATO, #Taliban, #Arab News, #Afghanistan, #Pakistan, #Afghan National Army )

  Saturday 24 November 2012 Last Update 23 November 2012 9:06 pm According to media reports, Pakistan has agreed to release several top Taleban prisoners including former Taleban Shoura member Mullah Brother who was arrested two years ago. Pakistan’s decision...

• Crimes against humanity

  23 February 2013 ( #International Criminal Court, #United Nations, #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #United Nations Security Council, #China, #Arab News, #Civilian casualties, #Russia )

  Crimes against humanity Wednesday 7 November 2012 Last Update 7 November 2012 10:26 pm In face of a tough stance taken by Russia and China at the United Nations over Syrian crisis, the world powers are looking for other options. Now British prime minister’s...

• Rallies will not serve the purpose

  23 February 2013 ( #Abu Laith Al Libi, #Pakistan Army, #Drone attacks in Pakistan, #Waziristan, #Taliban, #Imran Khan, #Arab News, #Pakistan, #Abu Sulayman Al Jazairi )

  I was quite amazed by Khawaja Umer Farooq’s claim , ( Drone attacks in Pakistan , Oct. 7), that despite “safety concerns”, Imran Khan is proceeding with long march into Waziristan to protest against the US drone attacks. Although the march was stopped...

• Trayvon Martin

  21 July 2013 ( #Tracy Martin, #United States, #Trayvon Martin, #Rick Scott, #Michael M. Krop High School, #George Zimmerman, #Zimmerman, #Martin, #Florida )

  The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman took place on the night of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States. Martin was a 17-year-old African American high school student. George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed-race Hispanic,...

• Hazara Killing in Quetta

  23 February 2013 ( #Balochistan, #Shia Islam, #Hazara, #Balochistan Pakistan, #Arab News, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #Quetta, #Hazara people )

  ARAB NEWS Wednesday 20 February 2013 Last Update 19 February 2013 2:06 am The death of 84 people on Saturday in a terror attack that targeted Shiites in Quetta raises questions about the government’s ability to guarantee security — especially that of...

• Abdul Fatah Saeed Hussein Khalil al-Sisi

  14 July 2013 ( #President of Egypt, #United States, #Al-Sisi, #Mohamed Morsi, #Abdul Fatah Saeed Hussein Khalil al-Sisi, #Egyptian Armed Forces, #Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, #Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, #Egypt )

  Abdul Fatah Saeed Hussein Khalil al-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي , IPA: [ʕæbdel.fætˈtæːħ sæˈʕiːd ħeˈseːn xæˈliːl esˈsiːsi] ; more commonly known as General Sisi, born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian Colonel General and the current Supreme...

• World Most Poor Countries

  23 June 2013 ( #Sierra Leone, #Gross domestic product, #Most Poor Countries, #United States, #Burundi, #Democratic Republic of Congo, #Africa, #Poverty, #World Bank )

  15% of individuals in the United States live below the poverty line. While down from 15.1% last year, it remains statistically unchanged and near a record high. Today, more than 46 million people live in poverty in America, more than at any point in the...

• South Sudan

  21 December 2013 ( #United Nations, #Juba, #Central African Republic, #Sudan, #Africa, #John Kerry, #Southern Sudan Autonomous Region, #South Sudan )

  South Sudan officially the Republic of South Sudan [8] and previously known as Southern Sudan, is a landlocked country in Middle Africa, [8] in the area of northeast Central Africa that is part of the United Nations subregion of Eastern Africa. [9] Its...

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  21 December 2013 ( #Yukos, #Mikhail Khodorkovsky, #Platon Lebedev, #Khodorkovsky, #European Court of Human Rights, #Vladimir Putin, #Soviet Union, #Russia )

  Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Бори́сович Ходорко́вский, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil xədɐˈrkofskʲɪj] ; born 26 June 1963) is a Russian businessman, an oligarch, [1] a philanthropist, a public figure and an author. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was named...

• Ronnie Biggs

  19 December 2013 ( #HM Prison Wandsworth, #Bruce Reynolds, #Prison, #Great Train Robbery, #Ronnie Biggs, #Jack Mills, #Bigg, #London )

  Ronald Arthur "Ronnie" Biggs (8 August 1929 – 18 December 2013) was an English thief, known for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, for his escape from prison in 1965, for living as a fugitive for 36 years and for his various publicity stunts...

• Hassan Rouhani

  07 December 2013 ( #Rouhani, #Tehran, #President of Iran, #Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, #Iran's nuclear program, #Fereydun, #Iran, #Supreme National Security Council )

  Hassan Rouhani (Persian: حسن روحانی ; born on 12 November 1948) [1] is the 7th and current President of Iran and also a Muslim cleric [2] (with the status of a Shia Mujtahid), [3] lawyer, [4] academic and former diplomat. He has been a member of Iran's...

• Reader's Digest

  07 December 2013 ( #readers digest, #United States, #Lila Bell Wallace, #DeWitt Wallace, #Wilfred J. Funk, #Wallace, #Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge, #New York City )

  Reader's Digest is an American general interest family magazine, published monthly (except for a short period between 2010 and 2012 when the American edition was published ten times per year). [2] Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters...

• Seleka Rebels

  07 December 2013 ( #United Nations, #France, #Central African Republic, #Union of Democratic Forces for Unity, #Christian, #Seleka, #2012–2013 Central African Republic conflict, #Michel Djotodia )

  Séléka (also called the Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR) is an alliance of militias [1] in the Central African Republic that overthrew the government on March 24, 2013. [2] [3] [4] Séléka leader Michel Djotodia has claimed himself President of the Central African...

• Wembley Stadium

  09 April 2013 ( #Wembley, #2006 FA Cup Final, #Wembley Stadium, #Populous, #England, #Wembley National Stadium, #Football Association, #London )

  Wembley is the national stadium and home of the England football team. The new stadium has a arch which is illuminated at night. Wembley Stadium (often referred to simply as Wembley, pronounced /ˈwɛmbli/ , or sometimes as the New Wembley) is a football...

• Desmond Tutu

  08 April 2013 ( #Nobel Peace Prize, #Cape Town, #Archbishop of Cape Town, #Desmond Tutu, #Sydney Peace Prize, #Anglican Church of Southern Africa, #South Africa, #Gandhi Peace Prize )

  Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate...

• The Panjshir offensives

  07 April 2013 ( #Mujahideen, #Kabul, #Soviet, #Panjshir Valley, #Hindu Kush, #Ahmad Shah Massoud, #Afghanistan, #Soviet Union )

  A view of Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley The Panjshir offensives (Russian: Пандшерская операция - Panjsher Operations) were a series of battles between the Soviet Army and groups of Afghan Mujahideen under Ahmad Shah Massoud for the control of the strategic...

• The Battle of Fallujah

  07 April 2013 ( #US Marines, #Iraq War, #United States Marine Corps, #Fallujah, #Iraqi Interim Government, #Second Battle of Fallujah, #First Battle of Fallujah, #Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi )

  A street in Fallujah heavily damaged by the fighting. The Second Battle of Fallujah — code-named Operation Al-Fajr (Arabic,الفجر "the dawn") and Operation Phantom Fury — was a joint U.S., Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered...