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...The muscular vocals of Hamid Al-Saadi, singing fragments of Iraqi poetry, were at the centre of the music....
...Germany’s armed forces said a firefight on Monday morning broke out at Kabul’s international airport between Afghan security personnel and unknown attackers....
...“The Taliban is effectively holding an unknown number of Americans hostage through the situation it has created outside the airport, by not allowing safe passage to the airport.”...
...Given the great unknown of whether the Americans actually want to play nicely with others rather than sabotage the whole selection process to make a point, we won’t be coming back from holiday anticipating...
...Hamid Baeidinejad, Iran’s ambassador to London, later tweeted: “The British flagged tanker ‘Stena Impero’, pursuant to the completion of judicial and legal process, is now free to leave.”...
...“The government of Mr Rouhani has no permission to hold talks with the US in New York at any level,” said Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a politician close to hardline forces....
...The ships, one Japanese and one Norwegian-owned, were hit by unknown weapons on Thursday and abandoned close to the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes and a chokepoint for exports...
...The paved road ends at M’Hamid, about 25km from the Algerian border, after which you need a driver who knows the desert. Our plan was to spend three nights in a camp by the Erg Chigaga dunes....
...Moth Smoke follows a trial; the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Reluctant Fundamentalist is framed as a monologue to an unknown listener; How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia aped the self-help book....
...Perhaps those unknown readers who copied and circulated it in secret, were changing their own memory of their history as they typed....
...The paranoid Sultan Abdul Hamid II tried to hold together the fraying Ottoman Empire with an army of official and unofficial snitches....
...Nasser Amin, who handles disappearances at the NCHR, says that not all cases can be classed as enforced disappearances, but that the use of incommunicado detention at unknown locations was illegal and a...
...“I don’t think this parliament will be capable of effective opposition,” said Khaled Abdel Hamid, a democracy activist....
...The poll has turned into a three-way fight to succeed President Hamid Karzai, who took power shortly after the US invasion and is constitutionally barred from standing for a third elected term....
...Plenty of unknowns remain about how Afghans voted and how clean the country’s first democratic handover of power was....
...When he first came to power, Morsi was a relatively unknown, 61-year-old engineering professor and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. But in the year since he took power we’ve learned a lot about him....
...A senior advocate for women in Afghanistan was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Monday, officials said, the latest assassination against women’s rights activists in the country....
...How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia , by Mohsin Hamid, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£14.99/Riverhead, RRP$26.95 Short, clever, genre-busting: Hamid’s unnamed narrator stars in his own self-help book and we follow...
...And it is still unknown whether the Afghan army can operate without US backing. Then there is the problem of the constitution....
...As negotiating partners the Taliban are at best an unknown quantity....
...Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who US officials said had authorised the operation, issued a statement Saturday calling on ”all Afghan and international troops to exercise absolute caution to avoid harming...
...Mr Karzai pledged at a conference in London last month to pursue reconciliation with the Taliban, but Mr Agha remains an unknown quantity among US troops....
...Meanwhile, as Hamid Alipour of the Iranian government’s Information Technology Company said this week: “The attack is still ongoing and new versions …are spreading.”...
...Maj Sarosa’s whereabouts are unknown but it is thought he is still in the Indonesian army. The military declined to say when, or even if, he had left the army....
...“It is really worrying that the slogans are getting more radical,” said Hamid-Reza Jalaeipour, a reformist sociologist....
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