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Jordan election touted as start of democratization
From a podium at an Amman street rally, the leader of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood vowed that soon the country would become a "state in the Muslim ...
Chinese workers revolt over 2-minute toilet breaks
Hundreds of Chinese factory workers angry about strictly timed bathroom breaks and fines for starting work late held their Japanese and Chinese ...
Inauguration-goers find tight DC security, delays
The hundreds of thousands of spectators at President Barack Obama's second inauguration Monday encountered strict security screening, slow-moving ...
Pakistani intelligence held men without evidence
Pakistan's most powerful intelligence agency held seven suspected militants sought by the Supreme Court for more than a year and a half without ...
Hungary groups call for ad boycott of newspaper
Hungarian civic groups are calling on companies to pull their ads from a newspaper that published a column in which a member of the governing Fidesz ...
Obama inaugural speech references Stonewall riots
President Barack Obama referenced the Stonewall gay-rights riots in his inaugural address, classing them as a civil rights watershed along with key ...
Small group of protesters urges jobs not war
A few dozen protesters were gathered along the Inauguration Day parade route on Pennsylvania Avenue invoking the late civil rights leader Martin ...
Part of courthouse burnt in Egypt clashes
A courthouse went up in flames in Egypt's northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria during clashes between protesters and riot police Sunday, ...
Iraqi protester tries to set himself on fire
A demonstrator tried to set himself on fire in the north of Iraq Sunday in what is thought to be the first attempted self-immolation since ...
Protest held in Georgia to demand president's exit
More than 1,000 people protested outside of the Georgian president's residence in Tbilisi on Sunday to demand that he immediately resign and hand over ...
March protests immigrant's slaying in Greece
Several thousand people marched through central Athens on Saturday to protest a spate of anti-immigrant attacks in Greece, including the fatal ...
Egypt clashes at trial of security officers
Riot police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse dozens of demonstrators throwing rocks outside an Alexandria courthouse where the city's ex-security ...
Rebellious Macedonian village stages carnival
The tiny Macedonian town of Vevcani boasts its own constitution, its own currency and a passport emblazoned with a golden coat of arms. They are a ...
Jordan's Islamists, opposition rally against vote
Hundreds of Jordanian Islamists, youth activists and other opposition groups rallied Friday in Amman, calling for a boycott of next week's parliament ...
Sectarian unrest flares anew in southern Egypt
Police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters trying to storm a Coptic Christian church in southern Egypt Friday, after a word ...
Iraq Sunnis rally against Shiite-led government
Thousands of Sunnis rallied Friday in western and central Iraq, denouncing the Shiite-led government's policies they claim sideline their sect and ...
As Tibet burns, China makes arrests, seizes TVs
Chinese authorities are responding to an intensified wave of Tibetan self-immolation protests against Chinese rule by clamping down even harder — ...
Judge considers San Francisco's public nudity ban
A federal judge considering San Francisco's public nudity ban rejected arguments Thursday that simply disrobing in public was protected political ...
Pakistani cleric ends rally after government deal
Pakistani officials struck a deal late Thursday with a fiery Muslim cleric to end four days of anti-government protests by thousands of his supporters ...
Iran official: opposition leaders out of election
A semi-official Iranian news agency is reporting that the country's two main opposition leaders are not competent to run as candidates in the ...
Watchdog group: Iran to jail protest leader
A media watchdog group says the founder of an Iranian protest group led by mothers has been ordered to begin a six-month prison sentence after being ...
Official refuses court order to arrest Pakistan PM
Pakistan's anti-corruption chief refused a Supreme Court order to arrest the prime minister in a graft case Thursday, citing a lack of evidence, in ...
To supporters, Swartz was protagonist for a cause
Since his suicide, friends and admirers have cast free-information activist Aaron Swartz as a martyred hero hounded to his death by the government he ...
Tight security, protests expected at inauguration
Tea party fervor has surged and waned in the past four years, Occupy encampments are long gone from parks in the nation's capital, and the crowd for ...