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Fondness! For six years, Rafat Shororo longed for the taste of a KFC sandwich he had eaten in Egypt. Last week, he got his finger lickin’ fix at home in the Gaza Strip after a local delivery company managed to smuggle it... 
An enraged Emirati woman set the car of her former husband on fire in Sharjah on Wednesday night in revenge, as her ex-husband married another woman. According to the sources, the woman poured petrol on the vehicle parked... 
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is debating whether to allow access to women in sports stadiums after an official backed the idea, triggering a storm in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where female sports are severely restricted. “Women would be authorised... 
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said Monday. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant... 
GAZIPUR, Bangladesh: A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world’s largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF Corp. VF confirmed on Saturday... 
BEIRUT: Syrian troops backed by fighters from Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an assault on the rebel-held central town of Qusayr on Sunday, after months of fierce fighting in the area, a watchdog said. The Syrian opposition condemned... 
Violence in Iraq killed eight people, including a police officer, his wife and two children, on Saturday, while gunmen kidnapped 10 security force personnel, officials said. Gunmen broke into the home of the administrator for the Rashid area,... 
KABUL, Afghanistan: A roadside bomb Saturday in western Afghanistan killed four soldiers while a district police chief was killed in an insurgent attack in the same region, the government said. An Afghan army vehicle was struck by the... 
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian... 
TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic bids by about 30 women seeking to run in the June 14 election. Even... 
KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of the Afghan capital. U.S.... 
BAGHDAD: At lease 14 people killed in three blasts, which have hit the markets in Shia districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical officials said. According to the police officials, two car bombs exploded... 
KABUL: A suicide bomber in a car targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, Kabul Police Chief Ayoub Salangi told Reuters. Salangi said he feared there were casualties from the... 
WASHINGTON: Giant retailer Walmart announced Wednesday that it would conduct in-depth safety inspections of all 279 of its Bangladesh suppliers, in the wake of the building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people. The US retailer said it... 
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Bangladesh’s government agreed Monday to allow the country’s garment workers to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners, the latest response to a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people and focused global... 
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a senior provincial intelligence official at his home in a remote northeastern corner of the country. Mohammed Zahir, spokesman for Nuristan’s governor, said the province’s deputy... 
DHAKA, Bangladesh: From the devastated building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, 17 days ago, a woman has been pulled alive. The woman, named Reshma, had been found in the remains of the second floor... 
Washington: The United States has reiterated that it does not seek any permanent military bases in Afghanistan. This was stated by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney when a reporter sought his response to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s... 
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American milyitary operations in his country, said Thursday that his government is now ready to let the U.S. have nine bases across Afghanistan... 
DHAKA, Bangladesh: The death toll in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster on Friday soared to 1,034 after more bodies were found in the rubble of a collapsed nine-storey building outside the capital Dhaka. Army spokesman Captain Shahnewaz Zakaria told... 
DAMASCUS : Syria is ready to receive a UN team to investigate claims of the use of chemical weapons in the country’s conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad told AFP on Thursday. “We were ready and we are... 
DHAKA, Bangladesh: A fire in a garment factory in Bangladesh killed eight people, including a top official in the country’s powerful clothing manufacturers’ trade group, as the death toll from the collapse of another garment building passed 900... 
KANDAHAR: At least six people were killed during clashes with police at a protest in Southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. There were differing accounts of what happened. Authorities said most of the dead were Taliban insurgents who... 
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Thousands of security officers patrolled the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Wednesday trying to prevent violence during a general strike called by 18 opposition parties. The strike was ostensibly organized to demand changes in electoral law and... 
BEIRUT: Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. As Syria‘s two-year-old civil war veered... 
The US President Barack Obama has almost ruled out deploying troops to Syria, saying he did not “forsee a scenario” in which this would occur. It comes amid reports that Israel has launched an airstrike into Syria. Obama’s... -
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Middle-East
KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque, Uploaded: 25th May 2013
Fondness! For six years, Rafat Shororo longed for the taste of a KFC sandwich he had eaten in Egypt. Last week, he got his finger lickin’ fix at home in the Gaza Strip after a local delivery company managed to smuggle it from Egypt through underground tunnels. “It has been a dream, and this company has made my dream... Revenge: Emirati woman sets ex-husband’s car on fire
By: Aqsa Ishtiaque, Uploaded: 25th May 2013
An enraged Emirati woman set the car of her former husband on fire in Sharjah on Wednesday night in revenge, as her ex-husband married another woman. According to the sources, the woman poured petrol on the vehicle parked outside the her ex-husband’s house and set it on fire, which drew a large crowd of inquisitive... Saudi debates access to sports stadiums for women
By: AFP, Uploaded: 22nd May 2013
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is debating whether to allow access to women in sports stadiums after an official backed the idea, triggering a storm in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom where female sports are severely restricted. “Women would be authorised in the stadiums soon,” said Saudi Football Federation chief Ahmed Eid. Eid raised the possibility of allocating... 23 Hezbollah members killed in Syria
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 20th May 2013
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces pushed deeper into a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, battling rebels in fierce street fighting, Syrian state-media said Monday. An activist group said at least 23 elite fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group have been killed in the clashes. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the... Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart still makes Wrangler shirts
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 20th May 2013
GAZIPUR, Bangladesh: A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world’s largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF Corp. VF confirmed on Saturday it was still using Liz Apparels to make its clothing following an inspection ordered by the factory... Syria army launches assault on rebel-held Qusayr
By: AFP, Uploaded: 19th May 2013
BEIRUT: Syrian troops backed by fighters from Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an assault on the rebel-held central town of Qusayr on Sunday, after months of fierce fighting in the area, a watchdog said. The Syrian opposition condemned “attempts to invade” the town, which it said could render US-Russian attempts to organise a peace conference... Iraq violence kills eight
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 18th May 2013
Violence in Iraq killed eight people, including a police officer, his wife and two children, on Saturday, while gunmen kidnapped 10 security force personnel, officials said. Gunmen broke into the home of the administrator for the Rashid area, south of Baghdad, killing one of his guards, an interior ministry official said. They then moved to... Bomb, insurgent attack kill four Afghan soldiers and police chief
By: Afraz Ahmed, Uploaded: 18th May 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan: A roadside bomb Saturday in western Afghanistan killed four soldiers while a district police chief was killed in an insurgent attack in the same region, the government said. An Afghan army vehicle was struck by the bomb in the Bakwa district of Farah province, the Defence Ministry said without releasing further information. Ghani... Obama: U.S. preserves diplomatic, military options on Syria
By: Reuters, Uploaded: 17th May 2013
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian crisis. Taking a cautious line at a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, Obama... Iran’s Yazdi says, women are not allowed to become president
By: AP, Uploaded: 17th May 2013
TEHRAN: A member of Iran’s constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic bids by about 30 women seeking to run in the June 14 election. Even before the comments by Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, chances for a woman candidate in Iran’s presidential election were... Bomb kills 15 in Afghanistan, including 6 Americans
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 17th May 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans in a blast so powerful it rattled the other side of the Afghan capital. U.S. soldiers rushed to help, some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor. A Muslim militant... Three market blasts rock Baghdad Shia districts, kill 14
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 16th May 2013
BAGHDAD: At lease 14 people killed in three blasts, which have hit the markets in Shia districts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical officials said. According to the police officials, two car bombs exploded in busy markets in Sadr City, north-eastern Baghdad in which, 11 people killed and another 18 wounded.... Suicide bomber targets foreign troops in Afghan capital – police
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 16th May 2013
KABUL: A suicide bomber in a car targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying foreign forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, Kabul Police Chief Ayoub Salangi told Reuters. Salangi said he feared there were casualties from the attack, which took place in the industrial zone of Kabul at around 8 a.m. (0330 GMT). Sirens... Walmart to inspect all Bangladesh factories
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 15th May 2013
WASHINGTON: Giant retailer Walmart announced Wednesday that it would conduct in-depth safety inspections of all 279 of its Bangladesh suppliers, in the wake of the building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people. The US retailer said it would release publicly the names and inspection information on each of the factories, and meanwhile also issued... Bangladesh to allow unions for garment workers
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 13th May 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Bangladesh’s government agreed Monday to allow the country’s garment workers to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners, the latest response to a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people and focused global attention on the industry’s hazardous conditions. The Cabinet decision came a day after the government announced a... Bomb kills Afghan intelligence officer
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 11th May 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a bomb has killed a senior provincial intelligence official at his home in a remote northeastern corner of the country. Mohammed Zahir, spokesman for Nuristan’s governor, said the province’s deputy intelligence chief Faiz Mohammed died Saturday. It wasn’t immediately known how the bomb was detonated but Mohammed... Woman pulled alive from collapsed Dhaka building after 17 days
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 10th May 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh: From the devastated building that collapsed in a suburb of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, 17 days ago, a woman has been pulled alive. The woman, named Reshma, had been found in the remains of the second floor of the eight-storey Rana Plaza, said the head of the fire service earlier. Even, she had not... No permanent military base in Afghanistan: US
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 10th May 2013
Washington: The United States has reiterated that it does not seek any permanent military bases in Afghanistan. This was stated by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney when a reporter sought his response to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s statement on Thursday that the United States wants to keep nine bases there after the U.S. withdrawal... US can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014: Karzai
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 10th May 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American milyitary operations in his country, said Thursday that his government is now ready to let the U.S. have nine bases across Afghanistan after most foreign troops withdraw in 2014. A border spat with Pakistan and a desire to test... Bangladesh building disaster death toll hits 1,034: army
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 10th May 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh: The death toll in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster on Friday soared to 1,034 after more bodies were found in the rubble of a collapsed nine-storey building outside the capital Dhaka. Army spokesman Captain Shahnewaz Zakaria told AFP that the “death toll now stands at 1,034″ as the recovery operation entered the 17th day... Syria says ready for UN to investigate chemical arms
By: AFP, Uploaded: 10th May 2013
DAMASCUS : Syria is ready to receive a UN team to investigate claims of the use of chemical weapons in the country’s conflict, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad told AFP on Thursday. “We were ready and we are always ready, right now, to receive the delegation that was set up by (UN chief) Ban Ki-moon... Bangladesh fire kills 8 as collapse toll, hits 912
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 9th May 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh: A fire in a garment factory in Bangladesh killed eight people, including a top official in the country’s powerful clothing manufacturers’ trade group, as the death toll from the collapse of another garment building passed 900 on Thursday. The fire Wednesday night raced through the lower floors of the 11-story building housing the... Clashes at Afghan protest, Kill six
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 9th May 2013
KANDAHAR: At least six people were killed during clashes with police at a protest in Southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. There were differing accounts of what happened. Authorities said most of the dead were Taliban insurgents who infiltrated what they described as the latest in a series of protests against alleged border intrusions by... Call for nationwide strike by Bangladesh opposition
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 8th May 2013
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Thousands of security officers patrolled the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Wednesday trying to prevent violence during a general strike called by 18 opposition parties. The strike was ostensibly organized to demand changes in electoral law and to protest the deaths of 29 people, many of them Islamic hardliners, on Monday during street demonstrations... Israel strikes Syria: targeting Hezbollah arms
By: Farah Jamil, Uploaded: 6th May 2013
BEIRUT: Israeli jets devastated Syrian targets near Damascus on Sunday in a heavy overnight air raid that Western and Israeli officials called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. As Syria‘s two-year-old civil war veered into the potentially atomic arena of Iran‘s confrontation with Israel and the West over its nuclear program,... Obama does not forsee sending US troops to Syria
By: Monitoring Desk, Uploaded: 4th May 2013
The US President Barack Obama has almost ruled out deploying troops to Syria, saying he did not “forsee a scenario” in which this would occur. It comes amid reports that Israel has launched an airstrike into Syria. Obama’s statements came during a trip to Costa Rica, where he met with the president Laura Chinchilla and... 
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