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Five Frames: Best photos of the week

News DeskApril 24, 2010 08:49Updated May 30, 2010 13:30

BOSTON — From GlobalPost's editors, a selection of the best pictures of the week. A man works at an orchard in Vakifli, Turkey, the country's last surviving Armenian village. Read about how, as Armenians stop to reflect on Ottoman-era mass killings today, a survivor quietly moves on. (Nichole Sobecki/GlobalPost)

United Arab Emirates police look for unmarried couples living together

Tom HundleyApril 23, 2010 14:43

Police in Sharjah having been going door-to-door this week hunting for couples living together without benefit of a marriage license. “We managed to find one couple, an Arab man and an Asian woman, illegally staying together. The couple also had two children. One was 2 years old and the other one was 4,” Brig. Musa al-Naqbi, a Sharjah police official told The National newspaper.

Opinion: Media bias and Israel-Palestine

Tom Fenton April 23, 2010 07:43Updated May 30, 2010 13:30

LONDON, U.K. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to stop building Jewish homes in Arab east Jerusalem and the West Bank has become a major obstacle to peace talks with the Palestinians and severely strains relations with President Barack Obama's administration. That's a simple statement of fact. But depending on which country you live in, the way the news media present these facts can make them seem quite different.

Syria's gallery scene

Don DuncanApril 25, 2010 09:28Updated May 30, 2010 13:30

Cairo 90210?

Laura KasinofMay 4, 2010 06:56Updated May 30, 2010 13:29

CAIRO, Egypt — Incessant honking, a bridge jammed for hours, and enough smog to merit the number one spot on the World Bank’s most dangerously polluted cities list. Welcome to Cairo. Home to around 17 million. Many who can afford it, are getting out.

Calling all Indiana Joneses

Sarah BirkeMay 17, 2010 06:48Updated May 30, 2010 13:29

DAMASCUS, Syria — Barely a week goes by in Syria without a new archaeological find. Witness the recent uncovering of Tel Zeidan, an Ubaid settlement dating from 6,000 to 4,000 B.C. which will give clues as to life in early Mesopotamia, and Hellenistic coins uncovered in a site near Aleppo. But archaeologists are warning that Syria’s cultural heritage is in danger. Last year UNESCO, the U.N.’s scientific and cultural body, threatened to take away the Old City of Damascus’ cultural heritage status because of a lack of protection accorded the city.

Syria's treasures under threat

Sarah BirkeMay 17, 2010 06:43Updated May 30, 2010 13:29

Five Frames: Best photos of the week

News DeskApril 17, 2010 09:30Updated May 30, 2010 13:29

BOSTON — From GlobalPost's editors, a selection of the best pictures of the week.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iranians: “Have more children”

Iran GlobalPost CorrespondentApril 15, 2010 11:33

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad complained about Iranians lack on interest in having more children, in an interview aired on national television this week. “I don’t believe two kids are enough. I see very eligible young couples, married, making enough money, but they’re not having kids,” he said while apologizing to the TV presenter for being so frank.

A scribe and scholar enter Hamas' world

Matt Beynon ReesApril 24, 2010 11:52Updated May 30, 2010 13:29

JERUSALEM — Stephen Farrell was sipping coffee in the office of his money changer on Salah ud-Din Street, East Jerusalem’s main commercial strip, four years ago, when Beverley Milton-Edwards entered. From his rucksack, Farrell produced a copy of a book about Islamic militants written by the Queens University Belfast professor.