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...As Iran’s best-known moderate Hassan Rouhani was being blocked from the powerful body with responsibility to appoint the country’s supreme leader, his hardline successor as president, Ebrahim Raisi, was...
...On the first day of play between Pakistan and Australia near the capital Islamabad, an Isis-K suicide bomber slaughtered over 60 people at a Shia mosque 100 miles away in Peshawar....
...The US-led invasion in 2001 scattered the Taliban, with founders such as Hassan Akhund and Abdul Ghani Baradar — now prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively — fleeing overseas....
...A second woman, known on social media as Narges Hosseini, was arrested on Monday while making a similar demonstration, witnesses said. At least six others removed their headscarves on Tuesday....
...The scandal is seen by some as an attempt to undermine Hassan Rouhani, the centrist president, who is seeking re-election next year....
...Mohammad Nahavandian, President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff, told the Financial Times that the lifting of sanctions was a “win-win” situation for Iran and the west and that it wanted “constructive interaction...
...Hassan, a spirited man, told me his family savings had long since evaporated....
...Mehdi Hosseini, an adviser to Iran’s oil ministry who has been drafting a new energy contract for the past two years, said he expected President Hassan Rouhani to approve it in the coming months....
...Joining K-pop and Korean cuisine, South Korea’s literature is arriving on distant shores. Sometimes it takes an entrepreneur to carry art out into the world....
...President Hassan Rouhani’s government has sought to privatise some segments of the industry through asset sales and the transfer of shares....
...For Hassan Amini, Friday prayers are a weekly reminder of the “humiliation” faced by Iranian Sunni....
...Additional Reporting by Tom Mitchell ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Ball is in China’s court on the TPP / From Prof Bernard K Gordon...
...“I agree that sanctions may not be lifted formally, quickly, simultaneously and immediately,” Mr Hosseini said....
...While Shia leaders in Tehran have strained relations with Sunni rulers of Saudi Arabia due to their intense rivalry in sectarian conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, the government of Hassan Rouhani has...
...The recent charm offensive by Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has raised hopes of a diplomatic rapprochement between Tehran and Washington and an easing of sanctions....
...Matthew Spangler’s dramatisation, worked on with Hosseini’s help and blessing, rightly seizes on the potent personal story at the heart of the novel: the tale of two boys, Amir and his father’s servant Hassan...
...“It would be surprising if no corruption happens in the existing banking system,” Hassan Sobhani-Nia, a banking analyst and former parliamentarian, told local media. The cynicism is not surprising....
...Nigel Newton founded Bloomsbury – which publishes novelists such as Margaret Atwood, Khaled Hosseini and Joanna Trollope – in 1986....
...For the next two years, Jois studied with Krishnamacharya who eventually left Hassan to travel and teach....
...Hassan’s memory will haunt Amir and that is the remaining story....
...The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, is such an intersection of global conflict, decision-making, leadership, and empathy. It’s just brilliant....
...Bloomsbury, J K Rowling’s publisher, showed the benefit of its early moves to reduce its dependence on the Harry Potter franchise, with a 3.4 per cent increase in interim profits despite the absence of a...
..., though fans of The Kite Runner may find Matar’s characterisation less compelling than Hosseini’s tragically misguided Amir and his loyal servant Hassan....
...Meanwhile, Ali Hosseini-Tash, another SNSC deputy secretary, is due in Moscow on Monday to discuss Russia’s proposal to enrich Iran’s uranium....
...At the centre of the debate is Schering-Plough, the US giant chaired by Fred Hassan and maker of a range of drugs that are marketed aggressively on American television – such as Claritin, the popular allergy...
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