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World intrigued by 'Occupy Wall Street' movement

11 Oct 2011
Tahrir Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York - popular anger against entrenching power elites is spreading around the world. Many have been intrigued by the Occupy Wall Street...
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Libyan women train for military, hope for equality

A woman holds her weapon in Benghazi, Libya
28 Sep 2011
  BENGHAZI - Muammar Qadhafi famously surrounded himself with a personal coterie of female bodyguards during the decades he ruled Libya. But it was more a sign of his eccentricities than a real commitment to equality for women in this...
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Iraqi Shias fear fallout of Syria turbulence

28 Sep 2011
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Shias, like their allies in Iran, fret that unrest in Syria could oust President Bashar al-Assad and bring to power hardline Sunnis eager to put their weight behind fellow-Sunnis in Iraq who have lost out since Saddam...
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Saudi king says women will have voting rights

File photo of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, Jordan, July 30, 2010.
25 Sep 2011
Saudi Arabia will allow women to stand for election and vote, the king announced on Sunday, in a significant policy shift in the conservative Islamic kingdom. In a five-minute speech, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud said women will...
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Algerians ignore latest protest call - for now

A man gestureS towards Algerian police surrounding demonstrators in Algiers, February 19, 2011. About 200 Algerian protesters braved riot police to rally in a central square in Algiers as security forces clamped down on the capital. Like in a previous protest a week ago, when 2,000 demonstrators confronted 30,000 riot police at the same venue, riot police armed with batons and shields, as well as armoured vehicles, took up positions throughout central Algiers ahead of the protest.
25 Sep 2011
  ALGIERS — A new "day of rage" was called recently in this violence-scarred North African nation. But when the allotted time arrived, nobody showed up: The colonnaded boulevards in the heart of Algiers on 1st May...
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Dozens more killed in Yemen after Saleh peace vow

25 Sep 2011
  Dozens of people were killed during clashes in the Yemeni capital, a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned following three months away saying he was "carrying the dove of peace." As the death toll mounted, the...
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Special from Kenya: Decades-old camps swollen with new wave of Somali refugees

Dadaab camp, Kenya
22 Sep 2011
DADAAB, KENYA - When volunteers arrive at the Dabaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somalia border, many believe they are coming to help Somalis suffering from the severe food shortage currently ravaging the horn of Africa. They are half right...
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Turkey tough talk boosts Mideast stature

Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi (R) gives the embelem of the institute to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the latter addressed Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, September 13, 2011 where he said that a recognition of a Palestinian state is not an option but an "obligation."
16 Sep 2011
Treated to a hero's welcome in Egypt this week and flexing his military muscle in the eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is basking in growing popularity in an Arab world being transformed by revolution...
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Libya disavows extreme Islam, Brotherhood doubled in number

Libya former rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj delivers his speech during a gathering against ousted Moammar Gadhafi on the Green Square renamed Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Libya.
14 Sep 2011
TRIPOLI - When it comes to Islam, moderation is the keyword in Libya, a country at pains to assure the world that it will not become a center of extremism now that anti-Islamist leader Muammar Gaddafi has gone. On the eve of the 10th...
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US nervous as ties fray between Israel, neighbors

A man holds placards during a protest against President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Indonesia, in Jakarta.
14 Sep 2011
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is watching warily as relations among its allies Israel, Egypt and Turkey deteriorate, threatening Mideast stability and US goals for the region. The simultaneous trouble between the Jewish state and...
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