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The Philippines: To Be Watched
The black-bearded, Oriental-eyed effigy ablaze before the U.S.
The Shadow of Saleh: Spoiling the Party in Yemen
The echoes of the cries of joy could be heard throughout the Yemeni capital on Sunday morning.
Syria Critical of Obama’s Middle East Speech Warning Assad
Damascus, it seems, does not care for Barack Obama’s advice. In a much anticipated policy speech on Thursday, May 19, the U.S
Syria: Has the Regime Turned a Corner Against the Protests?
As bright spring days gradually turn hot and muggy, the consensus in Damascus is that the protest movement has been badly burnt. The activist Facebook group Syrian Revolution 2011 put out an order for a general strike across Syria on Wednesday calling for “mass protests” and the closure of all schools, universities, shops and restaurants, “not even taxis.” But there was no apparent strike on Wednesday morning in central Damascus.
One Year After the Bailout, Greece is Still Hurting
Konstantinos Sourmelis, a 56-year-old technician for OSE, Greece’s state-owned railway, marched to central Athens on Wednesday to send parliament a simple message: Stop selling out the country. Like the thousands of other demonstrators who protested in the country’s latest general strike, Sourmelis accuses the government of scapegoating OSE and public utilities as part of its proposed privatization plan, the next in a string of attempts to raise the billions that Greece owes foreign creditors
Yemen Less Concerned About bin Laden Than About Saleh
Massive crowds were gathered in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, when word broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan.
Manila: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours — Introduction
Truong Van Tran is proud to be an American. So proud that the Vietnamese refugee, 37, chose to give his two children not the ancestral surname of Tran but a certifiably American one, that of the first President of the U.S.
Middle East Protests: Iran and Egypt Face New Challenges
The aftershocks of last week’s overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak continued to reverberate Monday, not only in Egypt but all the way across the Middle East to Iran.
Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake
At 6:30 p.m.