Egypt security forces clash with Cairo protesters
Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 2:45pm
Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas at protesters hurling firebombs at them in central Cairo, hours after hundreds of opponents of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi rallied peacefully in the streets denouncing his rule and demanding early presidential elections.
Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq
Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 2:36pm
Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war.
Tunisia bans conservative Islamist conference
Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 1:51pm
Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend.
Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
Maggie Michael, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 1:30pm
Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of their colleagues by suspected militants, underscoring the lawlessness and crisis of authority in the country two years since the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
Barbara Surk, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 12:29pm
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.
A look at `enforced disappearances' worldwide
The Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 9:45am
The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the past two decades, it received nearly 54,000 cases, of which nearly 43,000 in 84 states remain unsolved. The number of cases is believed to be only a fraction of those who disappeared after being taken by security forces.
Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
Karin Laub, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 9:44am
About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off.
Hints of political change on horizon in Algeria
Paul Schemm, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 8:52am
The Arab Spring may finally be en route to Algeria.
Iran may ban candidates who seek ties with US
Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 6:04am
The head of Iran's constitutional watchdog says it may disqualify candidates in June presidential elections who seek full relations with the United States.
Report: Bahrain police search home of top cleric
Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 5:46am
A main opposition group in Bahrain says police have searched the home of the Gulf nation's most senior Shiite cleric, who has strongly sided with anti-government protesters.
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