Behnoud Shojaee is again in imminent danger of execution: his family was unable to afford the diyeh, or financial compensation, required to obtain a pardon
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An Iranian Research Institute on the arctic to photograph the Eclipse of 2008 .
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Russia’s crossing of an international boundary must certainly be censured as it is outside the norms of civilized behavior
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Search no longer, he is well and alive, he needs you for a good laugh 'Cheers.
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One day, long, long ago.... there lived a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch
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What some specific others think of being assertive and strong women!
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IRAN
Photo essay: Panorama of people and places
by Farhang Haghighat
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GEORGIA
Self-baptised Yankee liberators should stay away from the Georgian-Russian conflict
As long as Georgia was a part of the Soviet Union, all ethnic conflicts within the Soviet zone of "interests", were not international issues. Yet, the issue emerged à la une after the dissolution of the USSR, when first in 1995 the two regions -- Abkhazia and South Ossetia -- became involved in conflicts with local separatists supported by Moscow. The issue ended in a de facto independence of South Ossetia from Georgia. Yet, with a pro-US president in office, Georgia launched an assault earlier this month with artillery and rocket attacks on the separatists. Russia immediately reacted and showed the sharp claws of a polar bear
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