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Tuesday, May 14 2013
Campaigner tells of her battle to end honour killings
Journalist, feminist and human rights defender Rana Husseini broke the silence in her native Jordan when she began campaigning against the unspoken crime of honour killings in her country.
That journey has taken her from being a journalist for 'The Jordan Times' to one of the...
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Gunmen on Friday killed the lead Pakistani prosecutor in two high-profile cases — the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and the brutal assault on civilians in Mumbai — shocking a country reeling from Taliban attacks as it prepares for nationwide elections.
Chaudhry Zulfikar Ali was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he drove to court in the normally quiet capital, where a concentration of...published... Saturday, May 04 2013
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THE Armed Forces posted photographs of three men who were arrested off the coast of Alexandria accused of cutting a vital under-sea internet cable on Thursday.
The massive fiberoptic cable carries vast amounts of Internet traffic between Europe, the Middle East and Asia.published... Saturday, March 30 2013
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TRAINS were halted in Alexandria on Friday when anti-Morsi protesters clashed with another mob near the former Muslim Brotherhood office in the centre of the northern city.
The hundreds who gathered, hurling stones and fire bombs, brought chaos to the area around the Misr Railway Station which is the...published... Saturday, March 30 2013
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Authorities released a prominent Egyptian blogger Tuesday after he refused to cooperate with prosecutors over allegations of instigating violence against the country's most powerful Islamist group in comments posted on social media.
The blogger, Alaa Abdel-Fattah, was freed following his demand that an investigative judge take over his case, according to one of...published... Wednesday, March 27 2013
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A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader says the group is prepared, if asked, to hand over to authorities members for questioning over a recent assault on activists and reporters.
Mahmoud Hussein, addressing a Thursday news conference, says the Brotherhood, from which President Mohammed Morsi hails, rejects...published... Thursday, March 21 2013
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The images remain fresh even as the memories fade — the blinding flash of "shock and awe" bombing, the square-jawed confidence of an American president leading his people into war, the cowering prisoner trembling on the ground in the face of a small piece of American power.
Fast forward and the images transform like the war itself: the pain of an Iraqi mother's loss, grief-scarred faces of benumbed...published... Wednesday, March 20 2013
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A new survey by Axiom Telecom and YouGov has found that Samsung is the most popular smartphone brand in Saudi Arabia.
36 per cent of a large sample of smartphone consumers from across the Kingdom claimed to own devices from the South Korean tech...published... Wednesday, March 13 2013
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Temperatures will be mild on Wednesday during the day in the UAE and will be chilly tonight, forecasters have said.
Some parts of the country woke up this morning to a blanket of fog and the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology said that...published... Wednesday, February 27 2013
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The US Embassy says the top US general's talks with Iraq's prime minister included discussions about Syria, underscoring concerns that the civil war there risks destabilising Iraq's fragile security.
The embassy said Wednesday that the previous day's talks between General Martin Dempsey, and Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki...published... Wednesday, August 22 2012
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