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Opinion: Democracy Is the New Black
By Will Durst - AOL NewsCongratulations from the United States of America to all our freedom loving brothers and sisters in Egypt and Yemen and Jordan and Oman and Tunisia and Libya and Iran and Bahrain and Morocco and Algeria, and maybe someday soon Saudi Arabia, for standing up to your dictatorial overlords and clutching at the guano covered branches of freedom. Jolly good. You've made majority rule fashionable again. Democracy is now the new black. We are all totally psyched how you've dragged yourselves kicking and screaming from the dark ages into the middle 19th Century. You may be excited to hear about some ...
Hundreds of Thousands Protest Across Arab World
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- Hundreds of thousands poured out of mosques and staged protests across the Arab world Friday, some trying to shake off autocratic rulers and others pressuring embattled leaders to carry out sweeping reforms. In the Libyan capital of Tripoli, protesters reported coming under a hail of bullets and said they saw at least seven people killed. In Iraq, troops opened fire in several cities to push back crowds marching on government offices, killing at least 12. Scuffles were reported in Yemen, while pro-reform marches in Egypt, Bahrain and Jordan were largely peaceful. The large ...
EU Ministers Call for End to Libya Bloodshed
By not in system - AOL NewsBRUSSELS -- The European Union on Sunday denounced strongly the Libyan governments' bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protesters and urged an end to the violence in which over 170 people are reported to have died. "We condemn the repression against peaceful demonstrators and deplore the violence and the death of civilians," said a statement issued after a meeting of European foreign ministers. "The EU urges the authorities to exercise restraint and calm and to immediately refrain from further use of violence against peaceful demonstrators," the ministers said, adding that "the ...
Bahrain Massacre: White House Responds
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Libya, Yemen Crack Down; Bahrain Pulls Back Tanks
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO - Security forces in Libya and Yemen fired on pro-democracy demonstrators Saturday as the two hard-line regimes struck back against the wave of protests that has already toppled autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia. At least 15 died when police shot into crowds of mourners in Libya's second-largest city, a hospital official said. Even as Bahrain's king bowed to international pressure and withdrew tanks to allow demonstrators to retake a symbolic square in the capital, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh made clear they plan to stamp out opposition and not be dragged down by ...
WikiLeaks Bahrain: Group Says It Will Release 100 Revelations on the Kingdom Tonight
By David Knowles - AOL NewsGet ready for the flood. WikiLeaks, the whistle-blower group that has released hundreds of thousands of pages of classified government information over the past few months, announced on its Twitter feed that it plans to share "over 100 new Bahrain revelations" sometime tonight. .bbpBox38709741043589120 {background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/3147857/WL_Hour_Glass.jpg) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px ...
Funeral Processions Mix With Violence in the Arab World
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsViolence mixed with funeral processions and anti-government demonstrations today, with more deaths reported in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. Tens of thousands of defiant demonstrators swarmed main streets and squares in North Africa and the Middle East, as calls for change sweep the region on the heels of popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. In Bahrain, at least four people were killed when protesters clashed with security forces near the capital's Pearl Square, CNN reported, citing witnesses. The Associated Press reported that at least 50 people were injured after soldiers opened fire on ...
Police Kill 2 in Clashes With Yemen Protesters
By not in system - AOL NewsSANAA, Yemen -- Police opened fire on protesters during clashes in a southern Yemeni port Wednesday, killing two people, in the first known deaths in six days of Egypt-style demonstrations across the country's biggest cities, demanding the ouster of the president, a key U.S. ally in battling al-Qaida. Around 2,000 police flooded the streets of the capital, Sanaa, trying to halt protests. Firing in the air, police locked the gates of Sanaa University with chains to prevent thousands of protesting students inside from marching out join crowds demonstrating elsewhere in the city, witnesses ...
Days of Rage: As Mideast Protests Spread, Peaceful Outcomes Are Up in the Air
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after an 18-day quiet revolution, but the region is hardly at rest. What started in Tunisia has spread thick and fast throughout the region. Algeria is simmering. Jordan is fitful. Iran and Syria are clamping down on protests. Bahrain and Yemen have protests in the streets. Eighteen days may have changed Egypt, but the rest of the Middle East has hardly returned to normal. Asked Monday if she had a message for protesters in the region, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton replied, "Remain peaceful, nonviolent. That is what worked so well in ...
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