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Emir Of Qatar Urges Warring Palestinian Factions To Reconcile In His Visit To Gaza Strip

Emir Of Qatar Urges Warring Palestinian Factions To Reconcile In His Visit To Gaza Strip

The Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, right, and Gaza’s Hamas Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, center, arrive for the corner-stone laying ceremony of a new centre providing artificial limbs, in Bait Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. The emir of Qatar has used his landmark visit to the Gaza Strip to […]

Syrian Conflict Lasting Over A Year And Half Drives People Into Abyss Of Misery

Syrian Conflict Lasting Over A Year And Half Drives People Into Abyss Of Misery

Displaced Syrian men wait for food near an NGO charitable kitchen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. A Syrian displaced woman and her granddaughter are seen in a refugee camp near Azaz, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. <AP Photo/Manu Brabo> This June 12, 2012 file photo shows a Syrian revolutionary […]

Animals Are Selling Well In Muslim Countries Ahead Of Eid Al-Adha Festival

Animals Are Selling Well In Muslim Countries Ahead Of Eid Al-Adha Festival

An Egyptian man waits with his son to sell sheep ahead of Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha at a street market in Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 23, 2012. <Xinhua/Qin Haishi> Photo taken on Oct. 23, 2012 shows the general view of a main animal market in northwest Pakistan’s Peshawar, as the Eid Al-Adha festival draws near. […]

Depression hits 1 in 3 female NK defectors

Life in South Korea is not easy for North Korean defectors and their difficult situation is reflected in numbers. A study showed Tuesday that 30 percent of 140 female North Korean defectors settled here suffered from depression. The depression was a comprehensive result of their weakened physical condition and psychological trauma from the escape from […]

Tunisians Protest Against Gov’t Policy In Tunis Amid Chaotic Political Climate

Tunisians Protest Against Gov’t Policy In Tunis Amid Chaotic Political Climate

A demonstrator leads other Tunisians who took to the streets of Tunis Monday Oct. 22, 2012, to protest against government policy. Tunisia will celebrate on Tuesday a year since its first free elections in a political climate marked by tensions within the national assembly, a stalled new constitution and sporadic violence. Riot policemen stand guard […]

Annual Islamic Pilgrimage Attracts Pilgrims From Around World To Grand Mosque In Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Annual Islamic Pilgrimage Attracts Pilgrims From Around World To Grand Mosque In Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Palestinian children perform a simulated pilgrimage celebrating the upcoming Islamic pilgrimage and Eid al-Adha festival at their school in the West Bank city of Nablus on Oct. 22, 2012. <Xinhua/Ayman Nobani> Muslim pilgrims leave the Grand mosque after the noon prayer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws three […]

Turkish Youths In Region Bordering Syria Protest Against Foreign Intervention In Syria

Turkish Youths In Region Bordering Syria Protest Against Foreign Intervention In Syria

Demonstrators gesture during a protest in Hatay of Turkey, on Oct. 21, 2012. A group of youth protested against foreign intervention in Syria, near the Turkish-Syrian border on Sunday. Five people were detained as some protestors clashed with police. A demonstrator is arrested by police during a protest in Hatay of Turkey, on Oct. 21, […]

Tension Heightens In Beirut After Overnight Clashes Between Sunni And Shiite Gunmen

Tension Heightens In Beirut After Overnight Clashes Between Sunni And Shiite Gunmen

A masked Sunni gunman stands guard on a road leading to a Shiite neighborhood after overnight clashes that erupted between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese security officials say overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni and Shiite gunmen have wounded several people. The officials say troops managed to separate […]

Chinese Aged 60 Or Above Expected To Account For One Third Of Total Population By 2050

Chinese Aged 60 Or Above Expected To Account For One Third Of Total Population By 2050

Members of an elderly model club rehearse in a park in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, Feb. 7, 2012. China had 190 million people at or above the age of 60 at the end of last year, according to the China National Committee on Ageing (CNCA). It is estimated that the figure will […]

Some 3 Million Pakistani Girls Fail To Attend Schools

Some 3 Million Pakistani Girls Fail To Attend Schools

Children attend a class at a public school in Multan, Pakistan, on Oct. 22, 2012. In Pakistan, 5.1 million children are out of school and 63 percent of them are girls, according to a recent UN report. Children attend an English class at a public school in Multan, Pakistan, on Oct. 22, 2012. <Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal>

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