Featured Blog Posts – February 2011 Archive (15)

Young and unassuming, Fethi Terbil is the Libyan lawyer who dared to challenge Moamer Gathafi and whose arrest

A revolutionary without ambitions

Libyan Lawyer hero of anti-Gathafi revolt: Fethi Terbil.

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Morocco will be spared mass demonstrations sweeping other Middle Eastern and North African nations as long as the

Bolder and speedier reforms

Analysts stress Morocco has to embark on bolder, speedier reforms to fulfill Moroccans’ demands.

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DAMASCUS - A young Syrian blogger sentenced to five years in jail, Tal al-Mallouhi, worked for the US spy agency

Is the CIA recruiting children or are the Syrian authorities lying?

Syria's Tal al-Mallouhi - held since December 2009 - convicted for passing on secrets…

CAIRO - Rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday called on the Egyptian military to halt the use of torture

'The army was holding detainees'

Egyptian military urged to stop 'torture and other abuse of detainees' as fresh evidence implicates…

LONDON - Ex-secretary of state Colin Powell called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable

The intelligence game was abvious

Report Ex-US Secretary of State urges CIA, Pentagon to explain how he was given unreliable information which proved key…

LONDON - Oxfam has added its voice to a growing chorus of concern about Britain’s system for deciding on asylum

Between a rock and hard place

Concerns over Britain’s system for deciding on asylum claims as right-wing press demonizes asylum…

BOSTON -- Two of the most interesting things going on these days around the crisis in Egypt are happening outside

Arab leaders are trying pre-emptive measures to quell the spread of unrest. World leaders want the Egyptian military to solve the crisis. But it is hard to understand how the military can be the solution when the military has been the heart of the problem, says Rami G.…

Gunfire aimed at anti-regime protesters killed four people in Tahrir Square early Thursday, taking the death toll from

Four anti-Mubarak protesters shot dead by gunfire coming from partisans’ positions in October Bridge.

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Tensions between supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and opposition protesters boiled over on

Brothers in sticks, knives and clubs

Pro, anti-Mubarak protesters clash on Tahrir Square despite army’s appeal for calm in Egyptian…

LONDON - The United States is conducting a manhunt for a previously unknown group believed to be involved in the

The three Qataris are Meshal Alhajri, Fahad Abdulla and Ali Alfehaid

Leaked memo reveals US is chasing three Qatari men under suspicion of conducting…

Google, Facebook and Twitter, breaking with the usual practice of corporate silence, are speaking out forcefully

Getting positive publicity from standing up to the Egyptian authorities

Top websites break with usual practice of corporate silence as they speak out…