Beirut, June 19: Visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton Tuesday held talks with the Lebanese officials over the plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, while calling for "a political solution to the conflict in Syria".
According to the Un, Lebanon has received the biggest influx of refugees, some 533,000, in the Middle East.
After meeting Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Ashton said that "de-escalating tensions in Lebanon is a priority", reported Xinhua citing an official statement.
"Any country would have struggled with an increase of 25 per cent of its population and commended all efforts to provide.
According to the Un, Lebanon has received the biggest influx of refugees, some 533,000, in the Middle East.
After meeting Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Ashton said that "de-escalating tensions in Lebanon is a priority", reported Xinhua citing an official statement.
"Any country would have struggled with an increase of 25 per cent of its population and commended all efforts to provide.
- 6/19/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
Iran's Fars news agency Photoshops First Lady's dress to cover up her neckline in coverage of Academy Awards ceremony
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency Photoshopped pictures of Michelle Obama at the Oscars to conform to Iranian restrictions on images of the female body in the media.
Fars, which is affiliated to the Islamic republic's elite Revolutionary Guards, redesigned the Us first lady's dress so that it covered her chest and shoulders in a picture showing her announcing that Argo had won best picture, via a video link from the White House.
Rules dictate that Iranian women shown on Iran's state television should have a hijab that covers their hair, arms and legs. The length of the censor's ruler varies for foreigners. A foreign woman travelling inside the Islamic republic should comply with the same restriction on Iranian women, but those shown on TV, such as dignitaries or actors, are tolerated without the hijab,...
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency Photoshopped pictures of Michelle Obama at the Oscars to conform to Iranian restrictions on images of the female body in the media.
Fars, which is affiliated to the Islamic republic's elite Revolutionary Guards, redesigned the Us first lady's dress so that it covered her chest and shoulders in a picture showing her announcing that Argo had won best picture, via a video link from the White House.
Rules dictate that Iranian women shown on Iran's state television should have a hijab that covers their hair, arms and legs. The length of the censor's ruler varies for foreigners. A foreign woman travelling inside the Islamic republic should comply with the same restriction on Iranian women, but those shown on TV, such as dignitaries or actors, are tolerated without the hijab,...
- 2/25/2013
- by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
- The Guardian - Film News
Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy chief, voices concern for jailed Iranian lawyer who is on hunger strike in Evin prison
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, expressed her concern for the jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh as she received the European parliament's most prestigious human rights award.
Sotoudeh and an acclaimed Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi, were on Friday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, previously won by the likes of Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. The prize is named after the Soviet physicist and outspoken dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Sotoudeh fell foul of the Iranian authorities for representing political activists and is serving a six-year prison term in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She is on day 10 of a hunger strike in protest at the state's harassment of her family and is reported to have been taken to the prison's medical facility as her health deteriorated.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, expressed her concern for the jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh as she received the European parliament's most prestigious human rights award.
Sotoudeh and an acclaimed Iranian film director, Jafar Panahi, were on Friday awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, previously won by the likes of Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. The prize is named after the Soviet physicist and outspoken dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Sotoudeh fell foul of the Iranian authorities for representing political activists and is serving a six-year prison term in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She is on day 10 of a hunger strike in protest at the state's harassment of her family and is reported to have been taken to the prison's medical facility as her health deteriorated.
- 10/27/2012
- by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
- The Guardian - Film News
After 16 years evading justice, Serbian war-crimes fugitive Ratko Mladaic was hauled into a Belgrade court today, but remained defaint. Plus, new details on his life in hideout.
Serbian authorities nabbed Ratko Mladic Thursday, ending a lengthy fugitive stint for the most-wanted war-crimes fugitive in Europe. Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, was wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
When they finally came for him, after 16 years, the once-proud general was frail and weak and offered little resistance. Hiding out in a relative's house in a village and living under an assumed name, Mladic-who is charged with crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre-was armed but offered no resistance in a pre-dawn raid. Later Thursday, he appeared in court in Belgrade,...
Serbian authorities nabbed Ratko Mladic Thursday, ending a lengthy fugitive stint for the most-wanted war-crimes fugitive in Europe. Mladic, a Bosnian Serb general during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, was wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Ratko Mladic: How I Helped Bring Him Down
When they finally came for him, after 16 years, the once-proud general was frail and weak and offered little resistance. Hiding out in a relative's house in a village and living under an assumed name, Mladic-who is charged with crimes against humanity and genocide for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre-was armed but offered no resistance in a pre-dawn raid. Later Thursday, he appeared in court in Belgrade,...
- 5/26/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
News networks here in Europe including BBC and others have tepidly shared info and commentary on Herman van Rompuy, the recent Belgian prime minister who assumed the new position of President of the European Union, while Great Britain’s Baroness Catherine Ashton was named the body’s new Foreign Minister. Much of the continent seems to have given a collective yawn to the new appointments, with some asking why former British Pm Tony …...
- 11/22/2009
- Indiewire
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