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Amman -- The Syrian authorities' arrest of a leftist opposition figure overnight suggests that a bill passed by the government to end emergency rule after 48 years will not halt repression, rights campaigners said Wednesday.
The draft law...
Sanaa -- Yemeni police opened fire on protesters in Sanaa and Taiz on Tuesday, killing at least three people, as protesters tried to escalate their campaign to end President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule.
The clashes came as Gulf mediators...
Beirut -- Syrian forces opened fire to disperse protesters early in Homs Tuesday, activists said, the latest city to be swept by the tide of unrest against President Bashar al-Assad's authoritarian rule.
By midday Tuesday they said the center of...
An authoritarian leader is forced to resign after protests against his corruption-tainted rule. He is charged with graft and murder, but ill health stalls his interrogation. He dies before he is put on trial.
The fate of Indonesia's President...
Tehran -- Iran declined to confirm a news report on Tuesday that it had appointed an ambassador to Egypt, which would mark the restoration of diplomatic relations after more than 30 years.
"The news regarding the appointment of an ambassador...
Amman -- Syrian forces fired shots at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in Homs city in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a rights campaigner said on Tuesday.
A member of the security...
A Saudi developer offered to invest up to US$7 billion to build some 200,000 residential units for low and middle income Egyptian buyers, Egypt's state news agency reported on Monday.
The agency said Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf met...
Gaza -- Hundreds of Palestinians marched in a symbolic funeral procession on Monday in memory of a pro-Palestinian Italian activist killed by Al-Qaeda sympathizers in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
"Vittorio, Vittorio," the crowd chanted as...
Tehran -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for unity in the Middle East on Monday, a conciliatory message that contrasted starkly with another senior figure who accused Saudi Arabia of "heresy and deception."
Relations between...
Muscat -- Oman plans to spend one billion rials (US$2.6 billion) to “satisfy the demands” of street protesters in the Gulf Arab country who seek jobs and political reforms, state television reported Sunday.
The government of Sultan...
