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Kuwaiti and Iraqi FM sign MOUs on border marking, housing project

Kuwaiti and Iraqi FM sign MOUs on border marking, housing project

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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah (L) and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari arrives at a joing press conference at foreign ministry building in Kuwait City on 28 May 2013. Kuwait and Iraq sign two memorandums of understanding regarding measure

29 May 2013

EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels to press Assad’s regime

EU ends arms embargo on Syrian rebels to press Assad’s regime

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British Foreign Secretary William Hague, seated, talks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, during the EU foreign ministers meeting, at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2013. The European Union nations remain divided on Monday whether

28 May 2013

66 dead from coordinated car bombings in Iraqi capital Baghdad

66 dead from coordinated car bombings in Iraqi capital Baghdad

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Heavy smoke rises after a blast in central Baghdad, capital of Iraq, on May 27, 2013. At least two were killed and 16 others wounded in two car bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said. <Xinhua/Liang Youchang> A co

28 May 2013

Artist Hend Adnan: A woman revolution against the mind of donkeys!

Artist Hend Adnan: A woman revolution against the mind of donkeys!

Egypt, Editor of Al-Arabi Magazine in Kuwait, Chief of The AsiaN's Middle East Bureau

Well. I wrote previously on Hend Adnan’s works of art, but when she introduces a new idea, in a unique way, I must review that, as I believe it is the reader’s right to know. Talking about rights, and duties, the idea of having four wives is well commonly at

28 May 2013

Afghan girls now go to school in post-Taliban Afghanistan

Afghan girls now go to school in post-Taliban Afghanistan

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Afghan girls have a class at a school in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan, on May 26, 2013. Some 8.4 million students, 39 percent of them girls, now go to school in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, according to officials. Afghan children have a class at a school in Jawzjan p

27 May 2013

Iranian presidential candidate insists Iranian nuclear is of peaceful nature

Iranian presidential candidate insists Iranian nuclear is of peaceful nature

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Iranian lawmaker and presidential candidate Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel addresses a news conference in Tehran, capital of Iran, on May 26, 2013. Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said Sunday that “the West is aware of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear activities.”

27 May 2013

Israeli and Palestinian President shake hands at World Economic Forum

Israeli and Palestinian President shake hands at World Economic Forum

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all shake hands during the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre at the Dead Sea in Jordan

27 May 2013

Hezbollah leader vows to support ally Syria while it is under attack

Hezbollah leader vows to support ally Syria while it is under attack

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah delivers a broadcast speech during a rally commemorating “Liberation Day,” which marks the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in 2000, in Mashghara village, Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Saturday May 25, 201

27 May 2013

US Secretary of State Kerry meets with Palestinian President Abbas

US Secretary of State Kerry meets with Palestinian President Abbas

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, May 23, 2013. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in

24 May 2013

‘Abused’ dolls displayed to arouse public awareness of child abuse

‘Abused’ dolls displayed to arouse public awareness of child abuse

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Some “abused” dolls are seen at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 23, 2013. Approximately 1,000 dolls, made as if they have been abused, were on a display here to arouse public awareness of child abuse and its long-term effect on those victims. A wom

24 May 2013

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N. Korea: player in the Gwangju Democratic Uprising?

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov

Russia, Attended Kim Il-sung University, PhD in Korean History, Leningrad State University, Professor at Australian National University(1996), Professor at Kookmin University, Contributor for The AsiaN

Korean history as seen in South Korea is deeply contentious. It is not incidental that many school textbooks prefer to stop their narrative around 1960, quietly assuming that what happened after is too controversial for anything resembl ...

Floods wreaks havoc in western Nepal and northern India

Nepal, Reporter of The Rising Nepal

Kathmandu- Incessant monsoon rains have wreaked havoc in western Nepal. Dozens of people were killed in the floods and mudslides triggered by the heavy rain. About 60 houses, including 11 government offices and a hospital of Darchula di ...

World celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin

Egypt, Editor of Al-Arabi Magazine in Kuwait, Chief of The AsiaN's Middle East Bureau

On the day of the Russian language: The world celebrates prince of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin For almost 150 million people, the Russian language is considered their mother tongue, added to that figure nearly 100 million more w ...

Using dung-cakes as fuel in resource rich Pakistan

Pakistan, Pakistan Press International Editor, Contributor for The AsiaN

People using firewood and dung-cakes as fuel in Pakistan Pakistan is bestowed with abundant natural resources including oil, gas, coal, hydro, wind and solar to meet its all requirements yet it’s faced with severe energy crisis, unpr ...

Can India's government empower its people?

India, SPOTFILMS CEO, FORMEDIA Chairman

Commercial forestry: A legacy of British rule The Indian politician and the bureaucrat have struggled for the past 65 years to shed the legacy and the mechanisms of British rule and empower the people but have failed...why? As is ...

[Book Review] The Bamboo Stick: Dispersion between two worlds

Egypt, Managing Editor of the AsiaN's Middle East Bureau, Graduate Student of Mass Communication and Journalism at Ahram Canadian University

The Bamboo Stick: Dispersion between two worlds "The Bamboo Stick" is a novel by Kuwaiti writer Saud Al-Sanousi, which recently won the Booker prize for Arabic novels. It shows the story of Eissa or José, whose mother is Filipino while h ...