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Sep 13 2008, Ankita

The country best known as the hotbed of religious zealotry, the hater of the west and the sponsor for terrorism, Iran earlier known as Persia is located in the Middle East between Iraq and Pakistan. The string of controversies attached to it...

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People walk along the street in front of the Strand Hotel Tuesday, July 22, 2008 in Yangon City’s port area in Myanmar. The 107-year-old Strand Hotel is a national landmark, and was one of the great watering holes of the British Empire and of such...