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3,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike

Sun Feb 24, 2013 17:26:41

More than 3,000 Palestinian prisoners started a hunger strike in the Zionist regime's jails to protest death of a fellow prisoner during interrogations in Megiddo prison.

IAEA report aims to create media hype: Larijani

Sun Feb 24, 2013 16:50:56

Iran Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says the recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program aims to create media hype ahead of talks between Tehran and the P5+1 group.

Turkey’s policy towards Syria ‘a grave mistake’

Sat Feb 23, 2013 20:47:12

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s anti-Syria policy has been described as a “grave mistake” by leader of Turkey’s main opposition party Kamel Kilicdaroglu.

Bahrainis march in solidarity with detainees

Tue Feb 19, 2013 22:40:55

Bahraini revolutionary people have staged fresh pro-democracy demonstrations in different parts of the country to express their solidarity with detainees held without charge in al-Khalifa regime’s prisons, al-Alam reports.

Bahraini activist rejects talks offer as PR stunt

Tue Feb 19, 2013 22:16:39

A senior Bahraini opposition figure has dismissed recent offer made by ruling al-Khalifa regime for talks as a propaganda stunt aimed at fixing its unpopular image at the international scene.

Iran rejects Bahraini regime’s claims as baseless

Tue Feb 19, 2013 20:55:06

Iran has categorically dismissed Bahraini regime’s recent anti-Iran allegations as baseless, describing the claims as a means of deviating world’s public opinion from the crimes committed by al-Khalifa regime against its own people.

Yemen fighter jet crashes in Sana'a, 9 killed

Tue Feb 19, 2013 20:38:47

A Yemeni fighter jet ploughed into a building in a residential neighborhood of Sana’a on Tuesday killing at least nine people, medics and witnesses said.

100s Palestinian prisoners join hunger strike

Tue Feb 19, 2013 20:34:30

Some 800 Palestinians jailed by the Zionist regime were on Tuesday refusing food in solidarity with four fellow inmates who have been on long-term hunger strike, officials said.

Gross violation of women rights in Arab kingdoms

Tue Feb 19, 2013 20:22:46

Forced to choose between “defending women’s rights in Persian Gulf littoral states or defending its own interests”, the West, with hypocrisy and deception, picked the second choice. As a result, it has completely lost the right to blame others.

Shooting in Saudi town wounds woman, child

Sun Feb 17, 2013 20:12:39

Unknown gunmen opened fire at a prison and police targets in Saudi Arabia's Shiite-populated Eastern Province, wounding a woman and her child, police and rights activists said on Sunday.

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