SANA, Syria’s official news agency, has Bashar al-Assad claiming that media distortion has led to a great number of misconceptions to grow in the public’s perception of events on the ground in Syria. Of course, al-Assad is blaming the unrest and destruction in his country on rebel elements backed by foreign conspiracies, which may or […]
Read MoreThe author of this article, Mohamed Elmeshad, claims to have met and become friends with a man who many would have called Cairo’s most dangerous and wanted criminal. Dying two days after imprisonment from what the guards described as a ‘suicide,’ Refaat Adbel Shakour Hassan and the author met at his wedding when he was […]
Read MoreRussia is attempting to quell Muslim unrest in Dagestan, a mountainous nation located in the Caucasus Mountains. Dagestan is a “federal subject or republic of Russia” with its largest city and capital being Makhachkala. It is home to many different ethnicities but only 4% of its population is ethnic Russian. Dagestanis are traditionally Muslim and […]
Read MoreI found this gem on TopDocumentaryFilms.com and I had to share it here. Lake Vostok, Russian for “East,” is the biggest subglacial lake found underneath Antarctica. Andrey Kapitsa, as part of a Soviet expedition in 1959 and 1964, used seismic readings from the Soviet’s Vostok Station and theorized from his findings that there was a […]
Read MoreThe Economist explores this question, estimating the GDP of the individual Brazilian states and what their international equivalents would be.
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Read MoreChina’s Foreign Ministry admits to having met with representatives of Qaddafi’s regime in the hopes of buying weapons to fight back the insurgents. Chinese state-run arms companies were broached by Qaddafi representatives but no arms transactions ever actually took place. The Foreign Ministry denied that Chinese officials knew of any such meetings having ever taken […]
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