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Egyptian Coptic Christians Protest

Egypt: Threat of a Second Revolution Mounts After Violence Against Coptic Christians

Egypt's finance minister resigned on Tuesday, becoming the first high-level official to leave in the aftermath of the deadly clashes that emerged between Coptic Christian and Muslim demonstrators and military forces, with many accusing the military council of being responsible of what has been called in the Egyptian press the "Maspero massacre."
People wait to vote during a presidential election at a polling station in Feefee, Bomi county

Liberian Elections: Nobel Prize VS Soccer Star: Who Will Win?

Bad weather and rain did not prevent Liberians from lining up to vote Tuesday in national presidential elections, marking the second time Liberians have voted since the end of a 14-year civil war, with current President and Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf facing as a main competitor football star George Weah.
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Nineteen killed as Egyptian Christians, police clash

Egyptians Scorn Official Media Accounts of Cairo Bloodshed

Egyptian state media coverage of Sunday's violent clashes in Cairo between thousands of Christian Coptic demonstrators and Muslim supporters and security forces has come under fire after witnesses and journalists insisted it provided a distorted account.
French Socialists candidates for the 2011 French Socialist Party presidential primary Aubry and Hollande attend summer meeting of the French Socialist Party in La Rochell

French Socialist Presidential Primaries: Who Will Face Sarkozy?

The race for the socialist presidential candidate has now truly started after an unprecedented open primary held on Sunday saw previous presidential runner up Segolene Royale ousted, leaving Francois Hollande, and Martine Aubry to fight for the chance to run against President Nicholas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election.
Tunisian

Tunisia: Secular-Religious Tensions Signs of a Struggle for Identity?

Tunisian police on Sunday broke up a mob of angry Salafists who tried to attack a TV network that aired a film on the Iranian revolution, raising fears the growing movement could provoke more unrest just two weeks away from elections where Tunisians will choose members of a constituent assembly tasked with crafting a new constitution.
Marzieh Vafamehr

Iran sentences actress to 90 lashes

The news that Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic speaks of a dangerous level of censorship and intolerence in the country.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters return fire in Sirte

Sirte: Gaddafi’s Hometown Now Final Battleground

The birthplace of ousted Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi, Sirte has risen from relative obscurity to become the focus both of Gaddafi's grandiose ambitions and for the revolutionaries struggling to seal their hard-won victory.
Muammar Gaddafi

Libya News: Gaddafi Leader of a New revolution?

Muammar Gaddafi is back in the spotlight, calling on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country's new leaders, and shows he after all approves of revolution, just when they are not against him, that is.
Afghan women wait for transportation in Kabul

Afghanistan 10 Year On: Has Justice For Women Been Achieved?

Friday 7 October marks the 10th anniversary of the foreign troop's intervention in Afghanistan and recent polls show that 66 per cent of women said they feel safer now than they did 10 years ago and 72 per cent believe their lives are better now than they were 10 years ago. However, 87 per cent of all women in Afghanistan suffer domestic abuse, proving that there is still a long way to go before Afghan women can truly feel protected.
Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi Jokes He Will Rename Party "Go Pussy"

Italian Prime Minister Sergio Berlusconi caused another scandal when he joked that the Forzia Italia (Go Italy) party should change its name to "Go Pussy" to improve its ratings in the polls.