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News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 44
Syrian Forces Launch Ground Assault in Aleppo
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Qatar, Aug 08 (IPS) - The Syrian army has launched a ground assault on the northern city of Aleppo, sparking fierce clashes with opposition fighters in the frontline district of Salaheddine.
Persecuted Libyans Struggle to Be Heard
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Aug 08 (IPS) - Pregnant women miscarrying due to mistreatment, detainees mainly from sub-Saharan Africa denied adequate food and water. Small cells crammed with 80-100 detainees subjected to arbitrary justice by Libya’s volatile militias, politically persecuted Somalis forcibly repatriated to Mogadishu, and hundreds of boat people dying trying to flee Libya for a better life in Europe.
Colonised by the Arabs, Abandoned by the World
- Inter Press Service
TIZI OUZOU, Aug 07 (IPS) - Untamed stone villages line up over imposing green valleys. In winter they are white with snow. The luckiest have a view to the deep blue sea. "It’s gorgeous, isn’t it," says Amzi from his yellow cab. "Nobody would say we’re living in an open-air prison."
High-Level Defections, Escalating Violence Mark New Phase of Syrian Uprising
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 06 (IPS) - As government security forces continue a week-long siege of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, high-ranking Syrian officials have begun to defect from the regime in record numbers.
Palestinian Bubble Set to Burst
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Aug 05 (IPS) - “It will collapse, and the collapse will be harder when it happens later,” says Tareq Sadeq, Palestinian economist and professor at Birzeit University, about the financial bubble building up in the Palestinian Authority government.
TURKEY: Caught Between Syria’s Kurds and a Hard Spot
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Aug 04 (IPS) - In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military exercises on the Syrian border, just a few kilometres away from towns that Syrian Kurds had seized from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
As Fighting Escalates in Syria, a Frustrated Mediator Resigns
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 03 (IPS) - After five months of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at resolving the growing 17-month old political crisis in Syria, a visibly frustrated Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan called it quits.
When the Lights Go Out, Talk
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Aug 02 (IPS) - When the lights go out, Gazans look for generators to switch on. And, they find people to talk to. With so many power cuts over so long now, people are giving themselves the somewhat dubious comfort that human relations may have improved as a result of these power cuts.
Egypt Opening Doors to Gaza, Slowly
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Jul 31 (IPS) - With the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's first-ever freely elected president, the Gaza file – especially as it pertains to Egypt's border with the besieged enclave – is fast becoming one of the new president's first major foreign policy challenges.
Q&A: "Israel's Heavy-Handed Abuse of Palestinian Children Is Unacceptable"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - After a fact-finding tour of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip - and following hearings in Amman and Cairo - a three-member United Nations committee has lambasted Israel for the harsh treatment of Palestinian children held in custody.
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