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News headlines for “Crisis in Libya”, page 70
LIBYA: Eid Comes With Political Celebration
- Inter Press Service
'Gaddafi renamed this one as the ‘Green Square’ but we have brought back its ancient name, ‘Martyrs square’,' Asma Mohamed, Tripoli resident tells IPS. Eid celebrations are being followed by the anniversary Thursday of Muammar Gaddafi coming to power 42 years ago. Celebrations of one kind have mixed with celebrations of another.
EGYPT: After Mubarak, Military Trials on the Rise
- Inter Press Service
Amr El-Beheiry’s trial in a military court lasted just five minutes. The 33-year- old Egyptian was arrested on Feb. 26 and sentenced to five years in prison for breaking curfew and assaulting a public official during a demonstration in Cairo.
LIBYA: When Caught in the Crossfire
- Inter Press Service
Thousands have been caught in the Libyan fighting — people neither with Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, or with the rebels. Ayman Agamy Abdelgawad, an Egyptian released from Tripoli’s Abdu Selim prison, shares his experiences with IPS. He narrates his experience below:
LIBYA: Evidence of 'Mass Execution' in Tripoli
- Inter Press Service
Al Jazeera has found evidence of a possible mass execution of political activists in Libya.
Concern Grows Over Prospects for Middle East Disarmament Meeting
- Inter Press Service
Four months before 2012 - the year a conference is slated to be held on freeing the Middle East region of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) - no date, facilitator, or host country has been named.
Refugees Tossed Between Iraq and Syria
- Inter Press Service
At the height of Iraq’s sectarian war in 2006, 30-year-old Samer escaped his Baghdad neighbourhood to join a flood of refugees arriving in Syria. A young man of military age, he was at high risk of being targeted by armed forces that roamed the capital’s streets.
EGYPT: People-Funded TV Challenges Big Business
- Inter Press Service
Egypt’s most organised political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, is tapping crowds as a new financing method for its nascent TV station and media outlets to be able to compete with well-oiled challengers in corporate and government- run media.
U.S.: Libya Intervention Unlikely to Be Repeated
- Inter Press Service
As NATO-backed rebels continue efforts to secure Tripoli from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, analysts here are already debating whether the apparently successful uprising in Libya offers a precedent for future action elsewhere.
LIBYA: Dreaming of a Future After Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
'We grabbed all these weapons from Gaddafi's compound just before NATO shelled the whole place,' says rebel fighter Massud Askar in downtown Nalut. The 50-year-old rebel displays an Italian light semi-automatic rifle in his right hand and a hand grenade in the other.
Libyans Find Historic Hope
- Inter Press Service
'I’m 60 years old and I never thought I'd see this moment with my own eyes,' Najib Taghuz tells IPS from the Tunisian-Libyan border. The engineer from the recently liberated town Gehryan is headed for Tunisia - his wife needs surgery on the left hand. But he hopes to return to a new Libya.
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