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Tweeting masses shine in new Hurricane Katrina
11 Oct '09 | Culture & Society / Comment
... on the region’s growth potential. First, don’t underestimate how Twitter Inc or Facebook can exert people power. Twitter, for example, played an unexpected role in protests after Iran’s recent election. China even blocked Twitter on June 4, the 20th anniversary of ...
Iran Cannes stars seek asylum in Britain - report
8 Aug '09 | Culture & Society / News
... are seeking asylum in Britain after a member of their band was arrested in Iran, a report said Saturday.Ashkan Kooshanejad, 24, and his girlfriend ... Mir Hossein Mousavi would win the election, believing it would have made it easier for them to return to Iran in July and renew their visas to return ...
Sultan of Oman begins first visit to Iran in 30 years
4 Aug '09 | Culture & Society / News
... term.Sultan Qaboos, who will be the first foreign ruler to travel to Iran since Ahmadinejad's disputed June 12 re-election, had been due to visit Tehran on June ... , the state-run ONA news agency reported on Monday.Iran and Oman are co-guardians of the Strait of Hormuz, gateway into the oil-rich Gulf ...
US tourists held by Iran 'were warned' by police
1 Aug '09 | Culture & Society / News
... Washington insisted on Friday that no US military personnel were involved in the incident.US-Iran tensions have been high for years, with the Islamic republic deriding ... concern over Iranian nuclear ambitions and its disputed June election, despite recent moves by Obama to offer Tehran an olive branch ...
Rod Liddle thinks I'm evil
3 Aug '09 | Culture & Society / Comment
... -gnashingly xenophobic.And then, somewhat surprisingly, he said: “But I am not sure I do think it is a good thing that Dubai is trying to modernise; to be honest, I think I prefer Iran, which has at least kept a vague nod to the redistributive impulse of Islam. Nor is it a philanthropic gesture [in ...
The world’s fastest city
9 Jul '09 | Culture & Society / Interviews
... behold, Washington now kind of likes what is happening here. Now it wants to sort of co-opt it a little bit and it wants to hold Dubai up as a model, especially to Iran, as the right way to develop and the right way to develop nuclear power. But Dubai’s wild growth had absolutely nothing to do with ...
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