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Jeff Van Gundy: It's amazing how Stan Van Gundy defends Dwight Howard
Running off at the typewriter. … Even Jeff Van Gundy is flabbergasted at how his brother, former Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, has become Dwight Howard's biggest advocate in the past few months. While Dwight has been getting criticized unmercifully...
Tags: Bobby Bowden, Rick Scott, Jacksonville Jaguars, Utah Jazz, Rickie Fowler
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Ahmadinejad's scandalous hug
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being criticized for giving Hugo Chavez's mother a hug at the funeral of the late Venezuelan president, reports the Associated Press. Iran's Islamic codes forbid physical contact between non-... -
El contrasentido de un acuerdo con Irán
Si alguien mata a una persona en Irán, no sólo tiene que cumplir la pena correspondiente, sino pagar una suma de dinero a la familia del muerto. Pero le sale más barato matar a una mujer o a un extranjero, porque en ese caso se paga la mitad. Es uno de...Tags: Argentina, Iran
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Letters: Two sides on Hugo Chavez
Re "Leaders join Chavez mourners," March 9 There is an egregious double standard practiced in the recounting of the death last week of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He is portrayed as a Latin American Robin Hood, while his subversion of human rights...Tags: Robin Hood, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Politics, Hugo Chavez
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Pakistan, Iran launch controversial gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Work formally began Monday on a controversial pipeline that would feed energy-starved Pakistan natural gas from Iran, a project that has drawn stern warnings from the U.S. of possible sanctions against Islamabad if the South Asian...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Politics, Iran, Environmental Issues, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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Iran's president raises eyebrows with behavior at Chavez funeral
TEHRAN -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, long at odds with Iran’s powerful clerical establishment, appears to have once again risked the wrath of the nation’s mullahs. This time, Ahmadinejad flouted Shiite Islamic traditions while...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Caracas (Venezuela), Iran, Politics, Islam
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Hugo Chavez's legacy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday of cancer at age 58, was beloved and reviled, bombastic and provocative, a flamboyant figure who was vastly influential in his country and throughout the region. The former paratrooper-turned-populist...
Tags: Iran, Hugo Chavez, Cuba, George W. Bush, Fidel Castro
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Funeral begins for Venezuela's Chavez
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CARACAS, Venezuela -- The funeral ceremony for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got underway Friday at a military base in the capital before 32 heads of state and with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra directed by Los Angeles conductor Gustavo...Tags: Politics, Hugo Chavez, Heads of State, Elections, Sebastian Pinera
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Obama in Israel: Can he overcome low expectations?
Later this month, President Obama will visit Israel, a country intended by an act of international law to be the reconstituted Jewish national home. The visit will be highly charged, but at the same time, many Israelis have low expectations for what could...
Tags: Iran, Politics, Israel, Elections, Barack Obama
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Body of Hugo Chavez to remain on view under glass
CARACAS, Venezuela -- After funeral services Friday with at least 33 heads of state expected to be in attendance, the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be specially embalmed and ultimately placed on permanent public display in a glass case,...
Tags: Politics, Hugo Chavez, U.S. Embassy, Heads of State, Elections
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Iran declares national day of mourning for Hugo Chavez
TEHRAN -- The Iranian government declared Wednesday as a national day of mourning for the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, praising the leftist firebrand as a foe of imperialism. In a cable to the Venezuelan presidential office, President...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Iran, Islam, Politics, Tehran (Iran)
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Ahmadinejad ally linked to human rights abuses arrested in Iran
TEHRAN -- Authorities arrested a former top Iranian prosecutor who was once labeled a “serial human rights abuser” and linked to the deaths in custody of three protesters following the nation’s disputed 2009 elections, according to...
Tags: Human Rights, Prosecution, Iran, Politics, Justice and Rights
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