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News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 60
OP-ED: The Real I-Revolt Apps of the Arab Spring
- Inter Press Service
So here I am, an Arab journalist in Silicon Valley, where four out of every four people I meet believe Facebook invented the Arab Spring. Three more weeks here and I may start to hallucinate that Mark Zuckerberg was a Cairo-slums native named Hassouna El-Fatatri, who rotted in a Mubarak prison for advocating personal privacy rights.
Security Council Remains Grounded by Political Manipulation
- Inter Press Service
When Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin briefed reporters recently, he offered some biting criticisms of the growing political manipulation of the most powerful body at the United Nations: the 15-member Security Council.
CASPIAN BASIN: As Energy Prices Head North, Democratisation Goes South
- Inter Press Service
Quiz: Over the next three months, three former Soviet republics will hold elections — Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Russia. Whose official outcome will most closely resemble the truth?
Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring
- Inter Press Service
Activists across the Middle East are reporting a mysterious toxin, possibly a banned nerve agent, in the thick clouds of tear gas used by security forces to suppress anti-government protests in recent months.
Syrian Troops 'Ordered to Shoot to Kill'
- Inter Press Service
More than 70 Syrian army commanders and officials have been named by former soldiers as having ordered attacks on unarmed protesters in that country, says the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch.
Iran Hedges Its Bets on Syria
- Inter Press Service
Iran is courting the opposition to Syrian President Bashar al- Assad, seeking to maintain a crucial alliance in the event that Assad falls.
U.S.: Former Top Aide Offers Insight on Mideast and Iran
- Inter Press Service
In his first public address since departing from the White House, Dennis Ross, former top Middle East aide to U.S. President Barack Obama, called for increased sanctions on Iran, a careful approach to new Arab regimes and a low-key approach to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
LIBYA: Old Ways Under a New Flag
- Inter Press Service
'They would call you a Gaddafist if you drove one of those 4 X 4 cars,' says Bashar, emerging from one of those traffic jams in Tripoli. 'Today almost every rebel commander has one.'
TUNISIA: Neo-Liberalism the Issue, Not Islam
- Inter Press Service
On the verge of officially forming a coalition government to run the country and rewrite the nation’s pre-revolution constitution, Tunisia’s dominant, Islamist political party Ennahda has come under fire for its economic neo-liberalism, both from opponents and from coalition partners.
SYRIA: Civilians Pay Heavy Price for Political Deadlock
- Inter Press Service
These days in Syria, 'people dare not step a foot outside their homes because they're being shot at. And so they pass food from home to home by ropes through windows,' Navi Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told reporters Friday.
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