Qatar and UAE Call on Citizens to Leave Lebanon
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors BEIRUT (AP) — The Gulf states of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have called on their citizens not [...]
Photos: Morality Police Hunting “Improperly Clothed” Women In Tehran
The “morality police” in Tehran has stepped up enforcement in the capital city. Mostly women are the targets as they are stopped, questioned, or detained by the police for “improper” clothing or makeup. -Armin Karami
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Algerian Singer Warda Dies in Egypt at 71
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors CAIRO (AP) — Legendary Algerian singer Warda has died in Cairo from a heart attack. She was 71. Egypt’s [...]
Iranian Student Organizations Respond to the Remarks of Science Minister: End Education Apartheid
A student group active in defending the rights of those students who are denied higher education has criticized the policies of Iran’s minister of science research and technology Kamran Daneshjoo and declared that Ahmadinejad’s administration [...]
Remand of Bahraini rights worker extended
MANAMA – The remand of detained Bahraini human rights worker Nabeel Rajab has been extended for seven more days pending investigations into violence incitement charges. Nabeel Rajab was arrested last week and remanded in custody on [...]
Prof. Rahman: We live in a world where knowledge-based economies dominate
By M. Nasir JawedSaudi GazetteJEDDAH Nations are built on a strong foundation of talents, education and scholarship. The paradox of Pakistan is that despite its vast and varied human resources, it continues to be bogged down in a morass of [...]
Public hospital refused treatment, claims family of stabbed expat
JEDDAH The uncle of the Arab expatriate who was stabbed in the abdomen and had his windpipe and neck cut in a brutal attack Wednesday, has filed a complaint over the refusal of a public hospital to treat him.The public hospital has subsequently [...]
Photos: Iran hits new record in building South Pars gas platform jacket
Iranian contractors have hit a new record for building the jacket of a gas production platform in phase 19 of the huge South Pars gas field in southern Iran.
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