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Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
Aid   Humanitarian   Photos   Wikipedia: World Food Programme   World  
 Huffington Post 
Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." | Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Head of the Iran's Experts Assembly Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his speech, during a meeting of the assembly, a powerful clerical panel charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010.
Election   Iran   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013  
 Al Jazeera 
Two key candidates barred from Iran election
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential election, state media has repor... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
The Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari interacting with the accompanying media on board on his way to Uzbekistan on May 21, 2013.	The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests, Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan is also seen.  The Siasat Daily 
Vice President Hamid Ansari leaves for a four-day official visit to Uzbekistan
New Delhi, May 21: | Vice President Hamid Ansari today left on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan during which the two nations will discuss issues of cooperation in counter-terrorism, Afghanistan and deve... (photo: PIB of India)
India   Photos   Politics   Uzbekistan   Wikipedia: Mohammad Hamid Ansari  
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere speaks to the media during his press conference during an European Union Interior Ministers' Summit at at Grassalkovich Castle in Goedoelloe, 30 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011.  The Siasat Daily 
German Defence Minister under fire over scrapped drone project
Berlin, May 21: | Germany's Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere has come under fire over scrapping of a prestigious drone project after investing around USD 835 million dollars to build a prototype of... (photo: AP / MTI, Zsolt Szigetvary)
Berlin   Defense   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Thomas de Maizière  
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, talks with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, not seen, prior to their meeting at Cameron's official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. The Siasat Daily
‘Ex-Pak PM Ashraf used threats to secure funds’
Islamabad, May 21: | A top government official today told Pakistan's Supreme Court that former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf had threatened him in order to get funds release... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis, Pool)
Business   Islamabad   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf  
PRESIDENT ASIF ALI ZARDARI AS CHANCELLOR AIOU CHAIRING A PRESENTATION ON  OPEN SCHOOLING SYSTEM  INITIATIVE BY THE UNIVERSITY AT BILAWAL HOUSE, KARACHI ON APRIL 29,2013. The Siasat Daily
Asif Ali Zardari blames int'l forces for poll debacle
Lahore, May 21: | President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday blamed national and international forces for his Pakistan Peoples Party defeat in the May 11 polls while the party... (photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan)
Business   Lahore   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Asif Ali Zardari  
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang gestures as he speaks during his visit to the Tata Consultancy Services office in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Li told Indian business leaders Tuesday that developing stronger economic ties between their two nations would have huge benefits for both sides. Newstrack India
Chinese Premier visits TCS centre in Goregaon
Tweet | Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) global development centre in suburban Goregaon east here Tuesday. | T... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool)
Beijing   Business   Delhi   Photos   Wikipedia: Li Keqiang  
U.S. Ambassador to India Nancy Powell, speaks during inauguration of the American Business Corner (ABC) in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. Similar centers have been set up in different parts of India to provide Indian business community information on U.S. companies and upcoming business opportunities. Newstrack India
India's growth needs more opening, foreign funding: Powell
Tweet | Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) US Ambassador Nancy Powell Tuesday called for greater economic opening and more foreign investments for India's higher economic growth, say... (photo: AP / Anupam Nath)
Business   Economy   Kolkata   Photos   Wikipedia: Nancy Jo Powell  
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center. Al Jazeera
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
A military physician who oversees a team of nurses force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has dismissed ethical concerns raised ... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Elisha Dawkins)
Guantanamo   Health   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the city of India Zeenews
Mahatma Gandhi's blood to be auctioned in London today
Zee News Bureau | London: London-based global auctioneers Mullocks is set to auction a large collection of Mahatma Gandhi's memorabilia on Tuesday increasing pressure on ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
India   London   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Mahatma Gandhi  
File - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, right, waves while arriving at the Palam Airfield with his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, left, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, April 8, 2012. Zeenews
Finally, Zardari congratulates Sharif on poll win
Islamabad: Hours after Pakistan's Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif complained that Asif Ali Zardari had not yet congratulated him on his victory in Pakistan's Genera... (photo: AP / Saurabh Das)
Elections   Pakistan   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Asif Ali Zardari  
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh addressing the CII National Conference and Annual General Meeting, in New Delhi on April 03, 2013. The Times Of India
PM sends tough signal on Ladakh incursion to Li
NEW DELHI: India on Monday elevated peace on the border to a "core issue" with China, making it plain that it could not countenance any disturbance of the status quo, and... (photo: PIB of India)
China   India   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Manmohan Singh  
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013. WorldNews.com
Justice in the Age of Drone Terror
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue witho... (photo: US Navy / Alan Radecki courtesy Northrop Grumman)
Defence   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan  
The President of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Shri Hamid Karzai, the President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee and the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh at the media interaction, at the ceremonial reception, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on November 12, 2012. The Guardian
Afghan president Hamid Karzai to seek military aid as he arrives in India
Karzai is expected to ask India for help with 'military needs and shortages' during three-day visit to subcontinent | Hamid Karzai, speaks after receiving an honorary deg... (photo: PIB of India / Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India )
Afghanistan   India   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Hamid Karzai  
Politics / Politicians / Elections Agricultural Policy
- Li urges efforts to carry on Sino-India friendship
- Xi Jinping makes surprise visit to Sichuan towns recovering
- Li: China, India have vast room for further co-op
- Campaign to strengthen ties between CPC and public
Head of the Iran's Experts Assembly Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his speech, during a meeting of the assembly, a powerful clerical panel charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010.
Two key candidates barred from Iran election
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- Online RTI facility now extended to MHA, Agriculture Ministr
- Online RTI facility now extended to MHA, Agriculture Ministr
- The Source Project and Modern Agriculture in India
- Odisha mangoes sweeten North India
Alphonso mangoes in a fruit market - King of fruits - India
Odisha mangoes sweeten North India
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International Relations Climate Change Policy
- Rightwing Tory rebels call on peers to reject gay marriage b
- Abdel Hakim Belhaj torture case may be heard in secret court
- Early summit date set for US and China
- 'There are empty spaces where there used to be living ro
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.
Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war
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- China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016
- China proposes emissions cap for first time
- Government critics call for a "Thai Spring"
- Ancient African Coins Found In Australia Could Rewrite Histo
Trees are important to reduce greenhouse effect as it produces oxygen and uses carbon dioxide which is the major element in causing global warming.
China proposes emissions cap for first time
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Human Rights Policies Society & Culture
- Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
- Granting Sanctuary, Gaining Amnesty
- New Guantanamo policy: Genital "pat down"
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center.
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
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- Severe punishments urged for air threats
- Chennai through to fourth consecutive IPL final
- 13 arrested in Beijing for rumormongering
- Shanghai to allow chicken again
The Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari and his wife Smt. Salma Ansari being received  by the Chairman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, Mr. I. Sobirov, on their arrival at Tashkent-1 International Airport, Uzbekistan on May 21, 2013.
Vice President Hamid Ansari leaves for a four-day official visit to Uzbekistan
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Nuclear Weapons Terrorism
- Hundreds seek compensation in Japan nuclear crisis
- Hundreds seek compensation in Japan nuclear crisis
- Hundreds seek compensation in Japan nuclear crisis
- Hundreds seek compensation in Japan nuclear crisis
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili delivers a speech in front of the former US Embassy, during an annual state-backed rally, on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, marking the anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979, when militant Iranian students who believed the embassy was a center of plots against the Persian country held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The US severed diplomatic ties in response, and the two countries have not had formal relations since. Iran's top nuclear negotiator says Iran plans to complain to the United Nations about U.S. "terror" operations, including killing its nuclear scientists. He said Iran's U.N. ambassador will present "documents of U.S. terror plots against Iran" to the U.N. on Friday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator joins presidential race
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- 'Govt shielding cops involved in terror suspect's de
- Govt to amend law to check misuse of VoIP by terror groups
- Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
- Shinde visits US national counter-terrorism center
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center.
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
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