A Beijing soccer fan refused to let the small matter of his house burning down disturb his enjoyment of Tuesday’s World Cup match between France and Spain.
A fire broke out in a hutong in the center of the Chinese capital at 3am local time Wednesday — kickoff time in Hanover — and gutted the traditional […]

Granted that I’ve made my own fake IDs’ in my time, but even a 16 year-old would choose a photo a little less…I dunno…conspicuous?
Dubai: A salesman faces trial for forging a labour card by pasting Hollywood actor Brad Pitt’s photo on it and an Arabic name.

The 29-year-old Jordanian, T.H., said he did not know whose […]

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…searching for the ring (in a haystack)…well at least the “plunged into darkness” is accurate

Much of the northern Gaza Strip was plunged into darkness after Israeli war planes hit a power station, two bridges and a road in a series of night-time raids.
Flames poured into the night sky from the power plant in central Gaza […]

I freaked out when I read this, the kind of freaking out that results in hair pulling but currently my hair is too short to pull so I slapped myself hard to make sure I wasn’t dreaming…
Jordan’s Al-Dastour newspaper reports that the Department of Publications is taking Jordanian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah to court over his […]

Strange how seven black men, who were charged for “building an Islamic army”, actually worshipped Jesus. Some will still blame Islam, I blame weed. The Daily Show puts a few things in perspective…

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The question now is whether Israel will recognize Palestine…or Palestinians for that matter…
Palestinian militant group Hamas has agreed to a document backing a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, officials say.
The initiative, devised by prisoners held in Israeli jails, implicitly recognises the Jewish state. [BBC]
UPDATE: looks like the media got ahead of itself…
However, Hamas […]

Today I got this comment on my post entitled: Muslim Brotherhood Grasping At Straws.
LGF also got the same comment in the same manner: a search for the term Muslim brotherhood on Egypt’s Google. LFG and me getting the same comment? Excuse me while I feel slightly creeped out.

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