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Orwa Nyrabia is looking for an apartment in Cairo for a few months, just enough time to wrap his latest movie a month after being released from a Syrian jail. Nyrabia was arrested on August 23 in Damascus and held for 22 days. This 35-year-old filmmaker and creator of the renowned Dox Box film festival…
Tolerated asylum seekers troubled in Germany photo: AP / Fabian Bimmer Hussain has spent seven years learning German. He speaks it quickly and confidently when among his friends at social gatherings in the busy Kreuzberg district of Berlin. He considers Germany home.But the authorities don’t want him here. Since fleeing from Pakistan to Germany…
October 2nd, 2012 Why Syria turmoil threatens Middle East By Fareed Zakaria As Syria continues its descent into civil war, the terrible humanitarian tragedy occurring is unfolding in plain view: 20,000 dead, 250,000 refugees outside the country by some accounts, over a million people internally displaced. There seems no easy solution to end the crisis….
HOW MANY CIVILIANS WOULD BE KILLED IN ATTACK ON IRAN NUCLEAR SITES…. BEHROUZ MEHRI Iranian twin sisters sit in front of worshippers performing ‘Id al-Fitr prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan in the Olympic Village neighborhood of western Tehran on Aug. 19, 2012 For Iranians…
‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Shot On Hollywood Set, Film Permit Connected To Christian Charity The Huffington Post -Staff Bangladeshi Muslims burn a U.S. flag during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. The protest was held against an obscure movie made in the United States called “Innocence of Muslims” that mocked Islam’s Prophet Muhammad….
Cheapest Place Today Worldwide to Buy Gold Coins Jim Rogers: It’s Going To Get Really “Bad After The Next Election” By Terry Weiss, Money MorningIn a riveting interview on CNBC, legendary investor Jim Rogers warns Americans to prepare for “Financial Armageddon,” saying he fully expects the economy to implode after the U.S. election….
BILL KILLS Thursday 06 Sep 2012 “The hoarse whisperer” stupefies his audience Last night, another aging superstar strode onto the stage at a convention, preceded both by mounting anticipation from the crowd and the chewed lower lips of campaign aides who were kept in the dark about his speech till the very last minute. The…
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño at a press conference that Ecuador would grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeasylum met with cries of approval and applause from assembled journalists. As always, whenever the government of Ecuador calls an official press conference, mostly only journalists close to the government are invited. The great majority of Ecuadorian independent…
Screwed Election: Wall Street Can’t Lose, and America Can’t Win by Joel Kotkin Aug , 2012 Everyone hates the big banks—except the two candidates running for president. Joel Kotkin on the bipartisan triumph of crony capitalism. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators stand and cheer in front of the George Washington statue on Wall Street as they…