Shi
The shi is China's classic lyric form. The early poetry anthology and Confucian classic Shijing (Classic of Poetry), compiled during the Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BCE), contained poems ...
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Sydney (dpa) - Civilians shoot upwards of 5 million kangaroos a
year for pet food, but Australian soldiers haven't the heart to aim
their rifles at 3,200 of the animals that...
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CAIRO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The Egyptian government has set
free a prominent Shi'ite Muslim activist after holding him for
two months on charges including "promoting extreme Shi'ite
beliefs", a human...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's
courtship of the biggest Shi'ite party in Iraq could worsen a
dangerous rift between rival Shi'ite groups and ultimately give
Iran a greater politi...
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FALLUJA, Iraq, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Back at work in the truck
chassis repair shop where gunmen murdered his brother for being
a Shi'ite, Yasir Yacoub says he is glad to be home 18 months
after fleei...
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BAGHDAD, Nov 25 (Reuters) - A powerful Shi'ite political
party on Sunday urged Iraq's other blocs to reach agreement on
forming federal regions, saying failure to do so would lead to
"dangerous" c...
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BAGHDAD, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Iraq's powerful Shi'ite Muslim
leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, called on Friday for curbs on
U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol units, which are mainly Sunni,
saying weapons...
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BAGHDAD, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Shi'ite Islamist political
parties are imposing strict Islamic rules in the oil-producing
southern provinces of Iraq and using their armed wings to create
a state of fe...
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BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Iranian-made weapons were among
a large cache of arms and ammunition found during operations in
a Shi'ite militia stronghold south of Baghdad, the Iraqi army
said on Mo...
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BEIRUT, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Shi'ite
Muslim Lebanese converged on Hezbollah's southern Beirut bastion
on Saturday to mark the climax of the Ashura religious ceremony,
one of Shi...
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A teenaged suicide
bomber blew himself up in a crowded Shi'ite Muslim prayer hall
in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least
nine people...
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Shi
Canberra shies from kangaroo cull
