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News headlines for “Middle East and North Africa Unrest”, page 63
Egyptians Launch New Battle for Minimum Wage
- Inter Press Service
Mohamed El-Abyad's employer has agreed to increase his salary by 20 percent, but the factory worker still cannot afford to send his children to school. After paying his apartment rent and utilities, El-Abyad will have the equivalent of 20 dollars left over each month to put food on his family's table. And while education is mandatory, he pulled both his sons out of school to help cover the shortfall.
Q&A: NATO Intervention in Libya Was 'Recolonisation'
- Inter Press Service
Brazilian journalist and writer Mário Augusto Jakobskind was thwarted in his attempt to visit Libya during the civil war there, but in spite of this he produced a lucid analysis of the situation in the North African country and of the forces that have taken power after the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime.
Raids in Syria as Pressure Mounts on Assad
- Inter Press Service
Syrian activists say troops have made sweeping arrests in the flashpoint province of Hama as President Bashar al-Assad faces a growing challenge to his rule.
Raids in Syria as Pressure Mounts on Assad
- Inter Press Service
Syrian activists say troops have made sweeping arrests in the flashpoint province of Hama as President Bashar al-Assad faces a growing challenge to his rule.
Crowds Vandalise Arab Embassies in Syria
- Inter Press Service
Crowds supporting President Bashar al-Assad have vandalised at least two Arab embassies in the Syrian capital Damascus as Arab League foreign ministers gathered in Rabat to discuss formalising their suspension of Syria from the league.
LIBYA: Headed for Some Sort of Sharia
- Inter Press Service
The announced introduction of Islamic law in post-Gaddafi Libya has drawn strong opposition from women, the non-religious and the Amazigh minority.
SYRIA: Beginning of the End for Assad?
- Inter Press Service
Actions by the Arab League this week have given a regional seal of approval to Syrian opposition forces and could mark the beginning of the end of the Assad family dictatorship that has ruled Syria for more than 40 years.
TUNISIA: Women Fearful of Islamists’ Rise
- Inter Press Service
Tunisian women poured into the streets armed with the vote, their latest weapon, when the country voted in its first democratic election since a popular uprising unseated former president Zine Abidine Ben Ali, ending his 27-year- long stronghold on the country.
SYRIA: Rights Group Details Brutal Ongoing Crackdown in Homs
- Inter Press Service
At least 587 civilians in Homs were killed by Syrian government forces between mid-April and August, the highest number of casualties for any single governorate, reveals a report released by Human Rights Watch Friday.
Cornered in Free Libya
- Inter Press Service
'We’ve walked all the way here to tell everybody that we are being treated like dogs,' said 23-year old Hamuda Bubakar, among a couple of hundred black refugees protesting at Martyrs Square in Tripoli. 'I’d rather be killed here. I wouldn’t be the first, or the last.'
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