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Muslim brotherhood members and ousted president Mohammed Morsi supporters light up flares during a demonstration against the military backed government on September 10, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)


Opinion: 2013 was a year of storms

Opinion: 2013 was a year of storms

Deemed unlucky in Western cultures, the thirteenth year of the new millennium is now drawing to a close. Away from superstitions about numbers, 2013 was a tough and costly for everyone. However, at the same time it was useful in shattering the delusions and dreams of...
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In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2013, a giant Palestinian national flag flutters from the highest point of the city and over looking the neighboring Israeli settlement of Ateret in the background, at the under construction Palestinian city of Rawabi, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. A state-of-the art Palestinian city under construction […]


Opinion: New Year Sorrows

Opinion: New Year Sorrows

As is well known, all endings are accompanied by pangs of sorrow, even if those endings are also joyful—whether for an individual, a family, society, country, or even the whole of humanity itself. And although some end-of-year celebrations are excessive or...
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Afghan Interior Minister Mushtaba Patang arrives at the interior ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 22, 2013. Source: AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid


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Demonstrators hold Brazil’s national flag in front of a fire during an anti-government protest in Fortaleza June 21, 2013. (Reuters/Davi Pinheiro)


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Thousands of demonstrators during a protest to deman better public services, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 June 2013. (EPA/Marcelo Sayao)