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Syrian Leader to Address Nation Amid Protests
By not in system - AOL NewsDAMASCUS, Syria -- Syrian President Bashar Assad is to address the nation Wednesday for the first time since unprecedented protests erupted in this tightly controlled Arab country, a speech seen as a crucial test for his leadership and one that may determine Syria's future. Assad is expected to announce constitutional amendments and sweeping reforms, including an end to nearly 50 years of widely despised state of emergency laws that give the regime a free hand to arrest people without charges. On Tuesday, Assad fired his Cabinet in another move designed to pacify the anti-government ...
Bahrain Army Tears Down Pearl Square Monument, Symbol of Protests
By not in system - AOL NewsMANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the region. The monument - six white curved beams topped with a huge cement pearl - was built in Pearl Square as a tribute to the Sunni-ruled kingdom's history as a pearl-diving center. It became the backdrop to the Shiite majority's uprising after protesters set up a month-long camp at Pearl Square in the capital, Manama. Bahrain TV / AP This photo taken from ...
Bahrain Locks Down Kingdom as Uprising Surges
By not in system - AOL NewsMANAMA, Bahrain -- Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters' camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and choked off movement nationwide Wednesday. Witnesses described helicopters firing on homes in a hunt for Shiites and attacking doctors treating the wounded, while the government called the demonstrators "outlaws" for demanding an end to the monarchy. The nation that once led the Middle East in entrepreneurial openness went into lockdown, its government propped by troops from Sunni Gulf neighbors fearful for their own rule and the spread of Shiite Iran's influence. The unrest that ...
Mariah Carey 'Embarrassed' Over Concert Performed for Gadhafis
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Mariah Carey says she was unaware that she was booked to perform a concert linked to Gadhafi's clan -- and she's embarrassed "to have participated in this mess." Carey is among a handful of entertainers who were paid handsome fees to give exclusive private concerts. It was later revealed the people behind those concerts were the family of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, whose country is in an open revolt against him and who faces an investigation for possible war crimes. This week, Nelly Furtado announced she is giving the $1 million fee she was paid in 2007 to charity; Beyonce ...
Bernanke: Mideast Threat to US Economy Is Mild -- For Now
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsThe spike in fuel prices, sparked by Mideast turmoil, currently poses only a mild threat of broader inflation because the ailing U.S. jobs market has kept a lid on wages, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today. But a continuing rise in the prices of oil and other commodities like steel, cotton and food could threaten both the economic recovery and stability for the cost of daily life for most Americans, Bernanke said. "In the past few weeks, concerns about unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and the possible effects on global oil supplies have led oil and gasoline ...
Obama to Gadhafi: Be Nice!
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Israel Eyes Suez Canal Trip of Iran Warships With Worry
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- Iran's first attempt in decades to send warships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Europe's - and NATO's - southern flank could further destabilize the Middle East, a region already reeling from an unprecedented wave of anti-government rebellions. Egypt's new military rulers, who took power from ousted Hosni Mubarak a little more than a week ago, have granted two Iranian warships passage through the strategic waterway - something Israel has made clear it views as a provocation. Still, Egypt appeared to have no other choice because an international convention regulating ...
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 ...
Anti-Government Protests Spread to Gadhafi's Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- Hundreds of Libyans calling for the government's ouster took to the streets early Wednesday in the country's second-largest city as Egypt-inspired unrest spread to the country long ruled by Moammar Gadhafi. Ashur Shamis, a Libyan opposition activist in London, and witnesses said the protest began Tuesday and lasted until the early hours Wednesday in the port city of Benghazi. Demonstrators chanted "no God but Allah, Moammar is the enemy of Allah" and "Down, down to corruption and to the corrupt." Police and armed government backers quickly clamped down on the protesters, firing ...
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