The Persian poet Sa'di (ca. 1200-ca. 1291) was the author of the classic literary works Bustan (translated as The Orchard) and Gulistan (translated as The Rose Garden). Moralistic books that contain t...
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Police detained 19 people Tuesday for allegedly taking part in a scheme to help large Brazilian companies evade taxes by laundering money through Swiss banks UBS AG and Credit Suisse Group and the ...
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BAGHDAD, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A large fire engulfed Iraq's
central bank building in Baghdad on Monday, but there were no
reports of casualties and the cause of the blaze was unclear,
police said. Po...
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The suicide attack against Iraq's Sunni deputy prime minister is now seen as an inside job carried out by a member of his own security detail _ a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurg...
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Amman (dpa) - US President George W Bush's call for an
international conference to relaunch peace negotiations between
Israel and the Palestinians is nothing more than a "ti...
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Israel's Supreme Court launched deliberations on Monday on a petition by four senior Hamas officials against Israel's decision to revoke their status as residents of Jerusalem.Israel meted out the ...
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Baghdad (dpa) - Another front is opening in Iraq's civil war. What
started months ago with individual street fights and the murder of
politicians in the provinces of the sou...
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When Ziad Saleh, a Sunni Arab, married a Shiite woman 17 months ago, it did not cross his mind that their mixed marriage would bring risk of death.But these days, love between Sunnis and Shiites re...
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Amman (dpa) - Forty years after losing the West Bank to Israel in
the 1967 Six-Day War, Jordanians still have deep concerns over
ambitions by Israeli rightist parties in the...
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Iran's top nuclear negotiator will meet the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency this week as part of a push for a new round of talks over his country's disputed nuclear program, officials said...
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Israel agreed Monday to remove some of the military roadblocks that have hindered Palestinian travel in the West Bank, one of several gestures aimed at boosting moderate President Mahmoud Abbas in ...
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Sa'di
Swiss banks, AIG probed by Brazil police
