When the sun went down, their voices did not. “Allah O Akbar!” the crowds on the tops of building chanted over and over.
From Iranian rooftops, a view of protest and violence
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Iranian forces ready to clear country of ‘hooligans’
Iranian protesters who "disturb the peace and stand up to security forces" will be considered a threat to the regime and will be met with a strong response, the country’s Revolutionary Guard warned Monday. “The guardians of the Islamic revolution and the courageous Basiji together with the security forces following the orders of the supreme leader and following him unquestioningly, are determined to act strongly to return peace and tranquility to society ..
What the World Didn’t See in Tehran
Iranian state television yesterday broadcast the soap operas and covered the news about Rafael Nadal’s withdrawal from Wimbledon and Pakistani operations against the Taliban as if they were the most important stories in the world. Meanwhile, arriving over the internet transom, rough and insistent and bloody, were the tiny electronic dispatches from protesters forced off the streets of Tehran, shaky videos from a city screaming for help. For outsiders tuned into the blog posts, Facebook updates, Tweets and YouTube videos, the torrent of information was compelling and confusing, emotional and rife with rumors, full of sound and fury signifying …
Slain officer remembered as a ‘gentle giant’
After stints as a guard in the jails of Washington, D.C., and on the streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, Stephen Tyrone Johns had settled in to a job he liked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, family members said. “It seemed to be kind of laid-back — it didn’t seem to be that dangerous,” Leroy Carter, the stepfather who helped raise Johns since he was 3, told CNN affiliate WUSA-TV in Washington
China’s youth post-Tiananmen: Apathy a fact or front?
They’re known as the "post 1980s" kids or the "Tiananmen-plus-20" generation: 200 million-strong, Web-savvy, pop-culture-conscious and decidedly apolitical. As the world observes the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, pro-democracy advocates abroad lament how little Chinese youth today know or care about the student-led movement that ended with the deaths of hundreds when tanks rumbled through the capital’s streets and troops opened fire. But what is lost in the generalization is whether today’s political apathy is a fact or a front
Microsoft will make Xbox games without controllers
Microsoft Corp. on Monday unveiled its answer to the Nintendo Wii. The software maker said it will release technology that lets people play video games by moving their bodies instead of clicking hand-held controllers
Video game industry in flux as E3 opens
Millions of people download 99-cent games for their iPhones.
British tabloid alleges Buckingham security breach
A British tabloid on Sunday accused Buckingham Palace of failing to protect Queen Elizabeth II after one of its reporters entered the royal garage without a security check.
Torture video threatens U.S-UAE nuclear deal
President Obama on Thursday sent a civil nuclear agreement with the United Arab Emirates to the Senate for ratification, but its passage remains uncertain, thanks to a recently disclosed video. Senior U.S.
First Review of ‘Inglourious Basterds’, Tarantino’s New Film
Quentin Tarantino can’t have been the first person to wish that the Third Reich had ended not in a bunker below the Reich Chancellory in Berlin, with no outsiders watching, but in a public area made for mass entertainment: a Paris movie theater.