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• Rashid al-Ghannushi

  16 April 2013 ( #President of Tunisia, #Cairo University, #Ennahda Movement, #Moncef Marzouki, #El Hamma, #Tunisia, #Rashid al-Ghannushi, #Egypt )

  Tunisian islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi Rashid al-Ghannushi (راشد الغنوشي, Rāšid al-Ġannūšī [1] , born 1941) is a Tunisian politician who co-founded the Ennahda Movement , currently the largest party in Tunisia. He has been called the party's "intellectual...

• Haile Selassie

  16 April 2013 ( #Ethiopia, #League of Nations, #Haile Selassie, #Queen of Sheba, #Haile Selassie I, #Solomon, #Axum, #Amharic language )

  Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ qädamawi haylä səllasé [nb 1] ; Amharic: [ha.ɪlɜ sɨlːase] [nb 2] listen ( help · info ) )(23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, [4] was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of...

• The Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Blue Mosque Turkey

  16 April 2013 ( #Sultan Ahmed Mosque, #Hagia Sophia, #Ahmed I, #Masjid al-Haram, #Istanbul, #Mosque, #Blue Mosque, #Süleymaniye Mosque )

  The Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istambul at dusk The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii ) is an historic mosque in Istanbul. The mosque is popularly known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior. It was built from...

• Nicolás Maduro

  15 April 2013 ( #Hugo Chávez, #José Vicente Rangel, #Nicolás Maduro, #Henrique Capriles Radonski, #Caracas, #Maduro, #List of Presidents of Venezuela, #Venezuela )

  Nicolas Maduro Nicolás Maduro Moros (Spanish pronunciation: [nikoˈlaz maˈðuɾo ˈmoɾos] ; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician and has been the President of Venezuela since April 14th 2013. He previously was the Vice President of Venezuela...

• Nicolas Maduro win Venezuela Presidential Elections

  15 April 2013 ( #Washington Office on Latin America, #Nicolás Maduro, #Henrique Capriles Radonski, #Caracas, #Maduro, #Venezuela, #Diosdado Cabello, #Chavez )

  Celso Amorim and Nicolas Maduro Nicolas Maduro, won a razor-thin victory in Sunday's special presidential election, edging the opposition's leader by only about 300,000 votes, electoral officials announced. Maduro's stunningly close victory over Henrique...

• Pervez Musharraf has admitted that he gave the US permission to launch deadly drone strikes inside his country

  13 April 2013 ( #Drone attacks in Pakistan, #United States, #Barack Obama, #Musharraf, #Pervez Musharraf, #CNN, #Pakistan, #Pakistani )

  Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has admitted that he gave the US permission to launch deadly drone strikes inside his country. Musharraf said that permission was given to strike only if there was no time for the Pakistani military to act....

• Riyadh's Railway network

  13 April 2013 ( #Qassim, #Al-Qassim Province, #Jordan, #Buraidah, #Kingdom, #Saudi Arabia, #Riyadh, #Middle East )

  Riyadh's Railway network, which will connect Riyadh city with five stations with a capacity of two million passengers annually, and its speed up to 200 km per hour, will be running by next year. Sources pointed out that the rail network will link Riyadh...

• Abdul Rashid Dostum

  10 April 2013 ( #Mohammad Mohaqiq, #Abdul Rashid Dostum, #Taliban, #Mazar-i Sharif, #Ahmad Zia Massoud, #National Front of Afghanistan, #Afghanistan, #Balkh University )

  Abdul Rashid Dostum and Hamid Karzai Abdul Rashid Dostum ( Persian : عبدالرشید دوستم) is a former government army general during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community . He is currently...

• The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

  10 April 2013 ( #United Nations, #Cold War, #India, #Josip Broz Tito, #Iran, #Gamal Abdel Nasser, #Non-Aligned Movement, #Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia )

  The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states which are not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012 [update] , the movement has 120 members and 17 observer countries. [1] The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961,...

• Casablanca

  09 April 2013 ( #Royal Moroccan Navy, #North Africa, #Morocco, #Anfa, #Africa, #Rabat, #Grand Casablanca, #Casablanca )

  Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port . It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb region. The 2004 census recorded a population of 3,500,000 in the prefecture of Casablanca and 6,000,000 in the region of Grand Casablanca . Casablanca...

• The Falklands War

  05 April 2013 ( #Falkland Islands, #Falklands War, #South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, #Argentine, #Atlantic Ocean, #Falkland Islanders, #British Overseas Territories, #Argentina )

  Atlantic Conveyor hit by 2 Exocet missiles 25 May 1982 during Falklands War. (Photo credit: Scouse Hobbit) The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas or Guerra del Atlántico Sur), also known as the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was a...

• The Tet Offensive

  05 April 2013 ( #United States, #South Vietnam, #Tet Offensive, #Vietnam, #North Vietnam, #Da Nang, #Vietnam War, #Viet Cong )

  Battle of Hamo Village During the Tet Offensive. US Marines and ARVN troops defend a position against enemy attack. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces...

• Diana, Princess of Wales

  05 April 2013 ( #Charles, #Diana Princess of Wales, #Princess of Wales, #Great Ormond Street Hospital, #Diana, #Charles Prince of Wales, #England, #Wales )

  Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances; [fn 1] née Spencer ; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997), was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981. [2] She was also well known for her fund-raising work for international charities...

• Cellphone turned 40 yesterday!

  04 April 2013 ( #Motorola, #Mobile phone, #Martin Cooper, #Marty Cooper, #April 3 1973, #Motorola DynaTAC, #LED display, #Bell Labs )

  English: Dr. Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, with DynaTAC prototype from 1973 (in the year 2007). Deutsch: Martin Cooper mit einem etwas größeren DynaTAC-Prototypen von 1973 (im Jahr 2007) 中文(繁體)â ¬: 馬汀庫柏博士，全世界第一隻商用手機的發明人。 (Photo credit:...

• Rafah Border Crossing

  01 April 2013 ( #Yasser Arafat International Airport, #Palestine, #Gaza, #Gaza Strip, #Israel Defense Forces, #Hamas, #Egypt, #Rafah )

  Rafah border crossing - British aid convoy entering Gaza Strip from Egypt Rafah (Arabic: رفح ), also known as Rafiah, is a Palestinian city in the southern Gaza Strip. Located 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Gaza, Rafah's population of 71,003 [1] is overwhelmingly...

• The Gaza Strip

  01 April 2013 ( #Arab League, #Palestine, #Gaza, #Gaza Strip, #All-Palestine Government, #Israel, #Hamas, #Egypt )

  Panorama di Gaza City The Gaza Strip (Arabic: قطاع غزة Qiṭāʿ Ġazzah , IPA: [qɪˈtˤɑːʕ ˈɣazza] ) is a territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest (11 km) and Israel on the east and north (51 km (32 mi)). It...

• Very Beautiful Mosque in Istanbul

  01 April 2013 ( #Turkey, #Istanbul, #Medina, #Bosphorus, #Mosque, #Minaret, #Middle East, #Süleymaniye Mosque )

  Details about the giant mosque set to be built on Istanbul’s Çamlıca Hill have revealed that the mosque will have the highest minarets in the world. The building phase has just started. A 15,000 square-meter mosque will be built on a tract of land in...

• Israel’s attack of Gaza

  01 April 2013 ( #Israel–Turkey relations, #Gaza, #Civilian, #Palestinian people, #Turkey, #Israel, #Middle East, #Egypt )

  English: An Israeli strike caused a huge explosion in residential area in Gaza. According to media reports, Israeli drones and F16s hit several civilian targets in Gaza and killed more than 10 people, including Hammas security chief Ahmed Jaber. Israeli...

• Foreign intervention in Mali

  01 April 2013 ( #Somalia, #French Armed Forces, #Iraq, #President of France, #Mauritania, #Islamism, #Timbuktu, #Mali )

  According to the current news, French forces have entered Mali to assist Mali government against rebel forces who are advancing towards the capital. Now French aircrafts are targeting possible rebel targets outside the capital. War has intensified and...

• Iran-US standoff

  31 March 2013 ( #France, #United States, #Hormuz, #Iran, #Hormuz Strait, #Nuclear program of Iran, #Horn of Africa, #Israel )

  IN the wake of the recent IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear programme, Israel and its western allies are once again planning for a military confrontation against Iran. Worst results and huge expenditures of Iraq and Afghanistan wars prove that wars provide...

• Global warming: need for code of conduct

  31 March 2013 ( #United Nations, #Climate change, #United States, #Environment, #India, #Weather, #Global warming, #Russia )

  The Discovery of Global Warming (Photo credit: Wikipedia) OWING to rising global warming things are going from bad to worse in several countries but the UN and other developed countries have failed to prepare a code of conduct for developed countries...

• Gaza children dying from airstrike

  31 March 2013 ( #Gaza, #Gaza Strip, #Washington Times, #Israel, #Saudi Arabia, #Iron Dome, #Middle East, #BBC )

  Still shot from video footage filmed on the 18th day of the War on Gaza showing the destruction sustained from Israeli-Palestinian clash in the area (Photo credit: Wikipedia) According to media reports, Gaza’s children are the worst affected by the recent...

• The Strait of Hormuz

  31 March 2013 ( #Strait of Hormuz, #Oman, #Traffic Separation Scheme, #Operation Praying Mantis, #Iran, #Persian Gulf, #United Arab Emirates, #Center for Strategic and International Studies )

  The Strait of Hormuz / h ɔr ˈ m uː z / Persian: تَنگِه هُرمُز Tangeh-ye Hormoz, Arabic: مَضيق هُرمُز Maḍīq Hurmuz) is a strait between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. It is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one...

• The Panama Canal

  31 March 2013 ( #Atlantic, #United States, #Gatun Lake, #Pacific Ocean, #Atlantic Ocean, #Panama Canal, #William Kennish, #Panama )

  The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá ) is a 48-mile (77.1 km) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international...

• The Suez Canal

  31 March 2013 ( #Port Said, #Suez, #Africa, #Necho II, #Great Bitter Lake, #Suez Canal, #Egypt, #Mediterranean Sea )

  The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس Qanāt al-Sūwais ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows transportation by water between...