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Peshawar - Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in her …

Cairo - Abeer Fakhry, a young Christian woman, had only wanted to live with a man who would love and respect her, and not with her abusive husband. But …

John Fleming is a 58-year-old African American born and raised in Philadelphia who served in the Army from 1969 to 1972 maintaining nuclear weapons in silos in Germany. …

Libyan postcard artwork representing the Great Man-Made River project. (Photo: sludgegulper) Cairo - Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government …

Voters in Westfield, Massachusetts, November 4, 2008. (Photo: hlkljgk) Miami - Less than 18 months before the next presidential election, Republican-controlled statehouses around the country are rewriting …

Cairo - Thousands of protesters filled Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for what was billed as a “second revolution,” chanting their demands: try former President Hosni Mubarak and his …

On May 23 and 25, police in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince destroyed camps which sheltered people who were otherwise homeless since the earthquake. Police and other municipal workers …

A watch tower at the Gaza/Egypt border crossing. (Photo: Marius Arnesen / Flickr) Rafah Border Crossing, between Egypt and Gaza — Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the …

Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo: Waqas Ahmed / Flickr) Islamabad, Pakistan - At least eight people were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber ripped through a restaurant in …

(Photo: moni / Flickr) When Sheela Gunn-Cushman decided to take part in a die-in at the California Republican Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento in March, …