Posted by seumasach on July 2, 2011
After running into one or two obstacles, the Arab Spring seems to be back on course.
PressTV
2nd July, 2011
Saudi protesters have taken to the streets in the eastern city of Qatif in Saudi Arabia, demanding the release of political prisoners in the Arab country.
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Posted by seumasach on June 21, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2011
18th June, 2011
A Saudi woman defiantly drove through the nation’s capital while others brazenly cruised by police patrols in the first forays of a campaign that hopes to ignite a road rebellion against the male-only driving rules in the ultraconservative kingdom. It was a rare grass-roots challenge to the Western-backed Saudi monarchy as it tries to ride out the Arab world’s wave of change, and a lesson in how the uprisings are taking root in different ways.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2011
18th June, 2011
The lawyers from Lebanon, Spain, France and Italy accuse Britain of selling arms, including sniper rifles, to the Manama regime and training Bahraini police forces, who are accused of using heavy-handed tactics against anti-government protesters in the Persian Gulf sheikdom, a Press TV correspondent reported.
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
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Posted by seumasach on June 17, 2011
17th June, 2011
Thousands of Bahraini anti-government protesters have poured into the streets in the island city of Sitra, following a call by the country’s largest opposition group al-Wefaq.
The Friday rally was the second mass anti-government demonstration organized by al-Wefaq since the heavy mid-March government crackdown on protesters.
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Posted by seumasach on June 16, 2011
Learning to Walk Again
Eric Walberg
16th June, 2011
Turkey’s vibrant democracy is an inspiration to Arab countries throwing off their autocratic yoke and their Western patrons, says Eric Walberg Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) renewed mandate puts the electoral seal of approval on its shift towards the Middle East, even as its importance to Europe increases. Now Turkey itself is being courted by both NATO countries and, increasingly, the Arab world.
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Posted by seumasach on June 15, 2011
15th June, 2011
The deputy head of Yemen’s Democratic Party has called for the expulsion of American and Saudi Arabian ambassadors from his country.
In an interview with Al-Alam news channel on Tuesday, Abdul Salam Faqih warned that Washington and the members of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC), including Saudi Arabia, want to hijack the Yemeni people’s uprising.
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Posted by seumasach on June 7, 2011
6th June, 2011
Hundreds of people have blocked railway movement in Giza to protest a cell phone tower in their village, security sources said.
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Posted by seumasach on May 30, 2011
39th May, 2011
At least 70 individuals have been killed in southern Yemen as security forces clashed with protesters that were calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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Posted by seumasach on May 25, 2011
Manilio Dinucci
24th May, 2011
Translated from Il Manifesto
In Zayed Military City, in a training camp in a desert area of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a secret army is in the making.
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