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Poaching threat to Afghan wildlife: BBC

'Middle eastern nationals blamed'

From the BBC: Illegal wildlife hunting is on the rise in Afghanistan - threatening several key species, campaigners say. Officials admit it is happening in most provinces despite regulations banning hunting, including a decree by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. There have been claims hunting is carried out by locals and by foreign nationals from Middle Eastern countries. However, Afghan officials could not confirm this to BBC News. [More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26083855]

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Islam's impact on border areas 

How some Medieval populations in border areas negotiated political, cultural and social changes brought about by Islam  

From the Heritage Daily: UC history research examines how border areas and frontiers of the past adapted to major political, cultural and social shifts, specifically in terms of the rise of Islam in Asia and the Middle East.

Afghanistan, Iran and the one-time Soviet Central Asian states were frontiers in flux as the Islamic Caliphate spread beyond the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh through 10th centuries.

As such, different groups, such as the new Arab ruling class, the native landed gentry and local farmers, jockeyed for power, position and economic advantage over an approximately 300-year period as the Sasanian Empire collapsed and the Caliphate took its place.
[More at http://www.heritagedaily.com/2013/01/uc-research-unveils-how-some-medieval-cultures-adapted-to-rise-of-islam/70463

Amazed at the kind of feedback Rahul interview got: Times Now editor

Times Now editor in chief Arnab Goswami talks to the India Ink section of The New York Times  

From NYT: Arnab Goswami, editor in chief of the Times Now television news channel in Mumbai, landed one of the biggest interviews in Indian journalism in recent years when he spoke with Rahul Gandhi, the Congress Party vice president ... On Wednesday, Mr. Goswami spoke with India Ink about how it felt to bag the elusive interview and the reasons behind his tough questions. 
(More at http://nyti.ms/1a1JCHt)

'Nothing substantive' but the thaw has begun: Brahimi on Syria talks

Issue of transitional government remains

From the BBC: UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has said he does not expect to achieve "anything substantive" in the first round of Syria talks before they end on Friday. He said he was "not disappointed" and that "the ice is breaking slowly".

[More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25953278#TWEET1028033]