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News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 64
TURKEY: A Rising Influence Among Arab Nations
- Inter Press Service
Assurances to women by the winners of the Tunisian elections that they will be free not to wear the Muslim veil has come as music to the ears of Turkish secularists. It was another signpost confirming Turkey’s growing position and influence among Arab countries.
As Arab Spring Turns to Winter, Women Fear Pushback
- Inter Press Service
For the women who participated in the political and social revolutions during the Arab Spring in 2011, there is a significant opportunity to enact real change for women's roles and relationships in the region - and also the possibility things could go the other way.
Syrian Political Refugees Hounded in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
Syrian refugees fleeing the brutal crackdown on citizens calling for an end to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime have encountered a sinister reception in neighbouring Lebanon.
Syria Agrees to Arab League Plan
- Inter Press Service
The Syrian government has accepted several measures suggested by the Arab League aimed at halting the violence in the country, including the removal of tanks and armoured vehicles from the streets.
LIBYA: Visitors Could be Saviours
- Inter Press Service
'A crossroads of history, continents and ancient empires; a place where history comes alive through the extraordinary monuments on its shores', reads a well- known tourist guidebook about Libya. It’s all still there, but the tourists aren’t there to see it.
Libya's 'Other' Victims
- Inter Press Service
Suleyman and Rasool have come to the University of Bani Walid, in western Libya. If they are lucky they might find some chemistry notes and, perhaps, a computer that works. Unfortunately it is not likely, since NATO reduced the campus to rubble.
EGYPT: First Woman Candidate Begins Campaign
- Inter Press Service
When post-revolution Egypt holds presidential elections next year, Buthaina Kamel is set to become the first woman in the country's modern history to run for the highest office. Although she knows her chances of winning are slim to none, she says she's doing it out of principle.
LIBYA: After Gaddafi, Unease Rules
- Inter Press Service
'The war is over and Gaddafi already buried. What else could we possibly ask for?' says Adnan Abdulrafiq at his busy street restaurant in Omar Mukhtar street in downtown Tripoli. But troubles may not have ended with the war.
Yemeni Women Burn Veils to Protest Killings
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of Yemeni women have set fire to traditional female veils in protest against the government's brutal crackdown on the country's popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people, officials said.
Attacks on Human Rights Defenders Cast Wide Shadow
- Inter Press Service
A chair stood empty at the launch here Monday of a report on the repression of human rights defenders, a physical reminder that its would-be occupant - Ales Bialiatski, president of Human Rights Centre Viasna in Belarus — has been languishing in prison since August.
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