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Most bands are used to playing small gigs, but the back of a London taxi cab? It's one of the tiniest venues in town, and it's also the cheapest.
Music promoters Jono Stevens and Chris Pattinson came up with the idea for the Black Cab Sessions as a cost- and time effective-way to record bands. More...
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"No peace envoy can succeed in his mission without the peacemaking will of all parties. The envoy should be an honest broker in this process and should contact all parties concerned. In other words, not contact one party and isolate another," Muallem told reporters in Damascus during a joint news conference with visiting European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana. More...
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The verdict removed Shehbaz Sharif, chief minister of the Punjab province — home to more than 60 percent of Pakistan's population — from his office and renewed a ban on his brother, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting political office. More...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — his eye on upcoming elections — talks a lot about freedom and compassion in Iran and says he's concerned about religious police taking a harder stance in enforcing the tenets of Islam.
The reality of the matter, however, is that Iranian authorities have been cracking down harder on minority religious groups, including members of the Baha'I faith — seven of whom are due to be sentenced soon on charges of spying for Israel. More...
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Binyam Mohamed’s return to the U.K. may prove to be deeply embarrassing, for both the British and American governments. Mohamed claims he was brutally tortured in a covert Moroccan prison run by the CIA, and that British intelligence agents were complicit in his torture. More...
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