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Egypt's president sets date for constitution vote
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi called Saturday for a referendum in two weeks on a contentious draft constitution, setting a date for another ...
Mexico swears in president amid violent protests
Enrique Pena Nieto took the oath of office as Mexico's new president Saturday vowing to restore peace and security and take on the vested interests ...
Brazilians protest against stadium privatization
Hundreds of people have held a protest march against the privatization of Brazil's iconic Maracana Stadium. Organizers say at least 800 people, ...
New clashes in 5th day of protest in Tunisian town
Hundreds of stone-throwing protesters and security forces firing tear gas have clashed again in a restive town southwest of Tunisia's capital despite ...
Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar
A few hundred people marched in a peaceful demonstration Saturday for "climate justice" in Doha, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries are ...
Son's woes weigh heavily on the Rev. Jesse Jackson
In the cluttered office where he's met with some of the nation's top politicians and preachers, penned rousing speeches and planned civil rights ...
Tunisian leader fears that clashes could spread
The army moved into a southwestern Tunisian town, an official and witnesses said Friday, the fourth day of protests that have injured more than 300 ...
Clashes in Slovenia before presidential vote
Clashes broke out Friday night in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana as angry demonstrators tried to push through a police cordon to storm parliament ...
Egypt draft constitution sparks mass protest
Protesters flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in the second giant rally this week, angrily vowing to bring down a draft constitution approved by ...
Suu Kyi wants gov't apology for violent crackdown
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday said authorities must apologize for a violent crackdown on monks and other foes of a mine in northwest ...
War rips apart families, neighbors in Syria
BEIRUT — It's at night that worries over her children hit the matriarch of the Khayyat family hardest, tormenting her as she tries to sleep. Four of ...
Kuwait election boycott shifts drama to streets
The drama of Kuwait's parliamentary elections has nothing to do with the ballot count. It's what may come afterward that has the country on edge as ...
Bangladesh workers protest; families of dead plead
Hundreds of garment workers protested Friday outside a Bangladeshi factory where 112 people were killed by a fire, demanding compensation for their ...
Egypt Islamists hurriedly approve new constitution
Islamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early Friday without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ...
Myanmar cracks down on mine protest; dozens hurt
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is urging a negotiated resolution to protests over a military-backed copper mine in northwestern Myanmar after the ...
Internet service goes out across Syria
Internet service went down Thursday across Syria and international flights were canceled at the Damascus airport when a road near the facility was ...
Noisy city: Cacophony in Caracas sparks complaints
This metropolis of 6 million people may be one of the world's most intense, overwhelming cities, with tremendous levels of crime, traffic and social ...
Tunisian PM slams those behind recent riots
Tunisia's prime minister accused opposition parties and unions Thursday of provoking three days of violent clashes and pleaded for patience while the ...
Lawyer: Qatari poet gets life for 'insulting' emir
A Qatari poet was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for an Arab Spring-inspired verse that officials claim insulted Qatar's emir and encouraged the ...
Spain's Iberia workers to strike before Christmas
Labor unions representing most workers in Spain's Iberia airline say they will stage six days of strikes right before the Christmas holiday period to ...
Tibetan protests against Chinese rule in new phase
Two dozen Tibetans have set themselves on fire in western China this month in a dramatic acceleration of the protests against authoritarian Chinese ...
Egypt crisis raises fears of 'second revolution'
Faced with an unprecedented strike by the courts and massive opposition protests, Egypt's Islamist president is not backing down in the showdown over ...
Egypt judges strike to protest president's decrees
In an escalation of the tug-of-war between Egypt's president and the powerful judiciary, judges in the country's top courts went on strike Wednesday ...
Riots injure 177 in central Tunisian town
A strike in a low income region of Tunisia has degenerated into a second day of clashes between police and protesters, leaving 177 people injured, ...
Egyptian courts suspend work to protest Morsi move
Egypt's highest appeal courts suspended their work Wednesday to protest presidential decrees that gave the country's Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi ...