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WASHINGTON - Joblessness in the Arab world is an "increasingly urgent" issue, the International Monetary Fund said

Ticking time-bomb

IMF spokesman warns economic pressure is building in Arab world a week after uprising in Tunisia.

 Thursday, a…

Mohammed Bouazizi climbed onto his fruit cart, doused himself with fuel and flicked on a lighter -- a protest that set off

'As a martyr he set free the whole country'

Bouazizi's family distraught but proud of hard-working son who stood up for rights after years of…

GAZA CITY - Angry Palestinians mobbed French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie as she visited Gaza on Friday

Her first tour of the region

Gazans mob French minister in mix-up as protesters call for releasing Palestinian prisoners from Israeli…

AMMAN - Around 4,000 Jordanians staged a protest march in Amman after weekly prayers on Friday against the

'People of Jordan will not

Jordan opposition calls for 'national salvation government', demands social justice, end to…

CAIRO - Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, warned President Hosni Mubarak's government on

'A message to oppressive leaders and corrupt regimes'

Egypt's largest opposition group warns Mubarak's government that it could face similar fate to Tunisia.

Wednesday that it could face a similar fate to Tunisia if it does not speed up political reforms.…

TEHRAN - Tunisians are on the path to establishing Islamic rule in their country after having toppled a Western-backed

Will be there

In one word, the Tunisians are after establishing Islamic law and rules: Ahmadinejad.

 dictator, Iran's President…

NOUAKCHOTT - Seven anti-slavery activists arrested in Mauritania after a protest to highlight the plight of two young girls

Six policemen were reportedly injured in the protest

Seven activists arrested for violent protest to highlight plight of two young…

Hundreds of Tunisians rallied against their new government on Wednesday, as the leadership tried to defuse public

Seeking 'a new republic'

Tunisian demonstrators call for abolition of RCD, demand new parliament, new constituion.

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The resignation of three ministers rocked Tunisia's fledgling unity government Tuesday as protesters vented their anger

'The dictator has fallen but the dictatorship not yet'

Anger against new Tunisian government line-up brings thousands of protesters onto streets

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BEIRUT -- The dramatic developments in Tunisia in the past weeks that have seen street demonstrators send former

The grievances that the Tunisian demonstrators have articulated in recent weeks - and in other forms in recent decades - are also widely shared across the entire Arab world, notes Rami G. Khouri.

 President Zein el-Abedeen Ben Ali fleeing the country may prove to be the historic…

Fleeing his country from protests after 23 years of iron-fisted rule, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali found

'Ironic'

Saudis give Tunisia's Ben Ali refuge in 2011, as they gave Uganda's Idi Amin and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif before…

AMMAN - Governments across the Middle East anxiously watched developments in Tunisia on Sunday after the ouster

Jordanian protesters: 'where are the political reforms?'

Administrations in Mideast increasingly uneasy as opposition groups see inspiration in…