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Egypt calls for help to protect democracy - 05/27/2011

PARIS- Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Thursday urged international support for his country's drive for democracy after its uprising this year, saying Egypt was key to the rattled Arab...

Fighting grips Yemeni capital as Saleh orders arrests - 05/27/2011

SANAA, Jamal al-Jaberi- Security forces in the Yemeni capital battled heavily armed supporters of the country's most powerful tribal leader on Thursday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the...

Citizen journalism keeps Syria uprising alive - 05/27/2011

BEIRUT, Natacha Yazbeck- Defying a state-imposed media blackout, Syria's citizen journalists are keeping protest coverage alive, in a country that until only a few months ago barred access to social...

Pressure mounts on Yemen's Saleh as clashes rock Sanaa - 05/26/2011

SANAA, Jamal al-Jaberi- International calls for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit mounted on Wednesday as fierce fighting between dissident tribesmen and security forces neared the...

Media boss Murdoch rallies Internet for education - 05/25/2011

PARIS- Media baron Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday urged Internet companies to pull out the stops in developing digital education programmes to revolutionise the world's classrooms. "Our schools remain...

Kalima translates four American novels into Arabic - 05/24/2011

The ADACH translation project focuses on US novels after the translation of 1,000 American poems. ABU DHABI – Kalima, the translation project of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage...

US-Israel lobby 'hopeful' but wary of Arab Spring - 05/24/2011

WASHINGTON- The head of US-Israel lobby AIPAC hailed Monday the "green shoots of democracy" pushing out Arab autocrats, but Israel's American supporters remain wary of the impacts of uncertain...

Europe's particle collider smashes another record - 05/24/2011

PARIS- The world's biggest particle collider set a new record early Monday, a feat that should accelerate the quest to pinpoint the elusive particle known as the Higgs Boson, a senior physicist...

Moroccans youth stage more pro-democracy demonstrations - 05/23/2011

RABAT- Moroccan police on Sunday used clubs to disperse young demonstrators calling for political reform in several cities. Demonstrators who took to the streets in Rabat, Casablanca, Tangiers and...

Libya says NATO warplanes raid port, Kadhafi home in Tripoli - 05/22/2011

TRIPOLI- NATO warplanes early Sunday carried out raids against the port of Tripoli and the residence of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi near the centre of the capital, a Libyan official said. "There...
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