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“Recent popular demonstrations, from the Middle East to Israel to the UK, are all driven by the same issues and tensions.”
“Recent popular demonstrations, from the Middle East to Israel to the UK, and rising popular anger in China – and soon enough in other advanced economies and emerging markets – are all driven by the same issues and tensions: growing inequality, poverty,
Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited an Iron Dome battery in the south on Sunday, and said the IDF would continue to go after those who are attacking Israel.
“The IDF is hitting the terrorists hard, and will continue to operate as needed,” he told the troops in the area. “The heads of the Popular Resistance Committees who sent the attackers were killed with swift and powerful action. Since then, we have launched
Tanks have entered the central Syrian city of Homs, according to activists, in a sign that President Bashar al-Assad remains willing to put down ongoing protests with force despite the impending arrival of a UN humanitarian mission. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said troops wounded at least eight people on Saturday in [...]
The Arab League will hold emergency talks on Sunday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip after a series of Israeli air strikes on the enclave, the deputy leader of the group said. “The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday, at the request of Palestine, to examine the repercussions of the [...]
Rebel forces have gained control of the central square in the strategic western city of Zawiya, NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reported Saturday. It’s a major victory in the rebels’ march on Moammar Gadhafi’s stronghold of Tripoli, just 30 miles to the east.
Militants in the Gaza Strip have fired rockets into Israel after Israeli warplanes pounded the Palestinian territory in retaliation for a series of attacks in southern Israel that killed eight. Israeli authorities said militants launched at least 10 rockets into Israel Friday, damaging a school and a synagogue in the southern city of Ashdod and [...]
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