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Unknown Gunmen Open Fire On A Car Killing Three Shiite Muslims In Quetta, Pakistan

Unknown Gunmen Open Fire On A Car Killing Three Shiite Muslims In Quetta, Pakistan

Bullet holes are seen on the window of a damaged vehicle at the shootout site in southwest Pakistan’s Quetta, Nov. 6, 2012. At least three Shiite Muslims were killed and two others injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on a car here on Tuesday, local media reported. Security officers inspect a damaged vehicle at the […]

U.S. Presidential Candidate Obama Casts His Vote At Community Center In Chicago

U.S. Presidential Candidate Obama Casts His Vote At Community Center In Chicago

President Barack Obama, second from the left, casts his vote, during early voting, in the 2012 election at the Martin Luther King Community Center, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Chicago. <AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais> Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and wife Ann Romney vote in Belmont, Mass., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. <AP […]

Radical Muslims Stage Rally In Tunis To Protest Imprisonment Of Fellow Salafist Militants

Radical Muslims Stage Rally In Tunis To Protest Imprisonment Of Fellow Salafist Militants

A demonstrator holding a banner reading: No to Racism, stands in front of the Justice Ministry in Tunis, Tuesday Nov. 6, 2012, as part of a demonstration by radical Salafi Muslims protesting against the imprisonment of hundreds of Salafist militants. Riot policemen protect the justice ministry building, as Tunisian Muslims are gathered in front of […]

Asian, European Leaders Hold Press Conference During ASEM In Vientiane, Laos

Asian, European Leaders Hold Press Conference During ASEM In Vientiane, Laos

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (L), Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong (C) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso attend a press conference of the Ninth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, Nov. 6, 2012. Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) leaders pledged on Tuesday to foster closer relations between Asia and Europe at the end […]

Obama Wins U.S. Presidential Election

Obama Wins U.S. Presidential Election

Photo taken on Oct. 5, 2012 shows that U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally in Fairfax, Virginia, the United States. Barack Obama wins U.S. presidential elections. <Xinhua/Fang Zhe>

Turkey Starts Trial Against Israeli Military Officers Who Killed Eight Turks In 2010 Raid

Turkey Starts Trial Against Israeli Military Officers Who Killed Eight Turks In 2010 Raid

People wave Turkish and Palestinian flags as a Turkish court opened a trial in absentia for four former Israeli military commanders in the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish aid ship that tried to break a Gaza blockade, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Prosecutors have demanded life in prison for several officers […]

Iranian Lawmakers Consider Summoning President To Question Over Plummeting Currency

Iranian Lawmakers Consider Summoning President To Question Over Plummeting Currency

A group of Iranian lawmakers sit on the floor during an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. Iran’s parliament is planning to summon President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be questioned over the country’s plummeting currency. It will be the second grilling of the increasingly embattled leader in less than a year. […]

In the land of legends, South Korea

In the land of legends, South Korea

South Korea is a lot different from its southern neighbor also from the rest of the Asian countries. I’ve finally managed to experience such difference. Visiting South Korea has always been one of my dreams. In Incheon airport I saw where many of my favorite dramas were shot, in Seoul streets I imagined my favorite […]

Islam’s view on Obama’s reelection

Islam’s view on Obama’s reelection

Back to the school of Sultan Obama! In the summer of 2009, many Egyptians admired the US president Barrack Obama’s visit to the Sultan Hassan Mosque in his way to Cairo University for delivering his important speech to Islamic World. For many, Obama was considered – at the very beginning – that he is the […]

Children In Quake-Hit Yiliang County, China, Resume Class In Makeshift Classroom

Children In Quake-Hit Yiliang County, China, Resume Class In Makeshift Classroom

Students attend class on the makeshift campus of the Guoquanyan Elementary School in the earthquake-affected Yiliang County, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Nov. 5, 2012. Classes have resumed at Yiliang’s Guoquanyan Elementary School after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake damaged the school campus in September. Students will study in six makeshift classrooms before a new campus is […]

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