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Soldiers marching in Yemen.

Al-Qaeda is losing ground

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: Military sources based in the southern province of Abyan told Bikyamasr.com that the armed forces backed by local tribesmen and United States warplanes were making “real progress” against al-Qaeda militants. After four days of an intense multi-front battle, with American and Yemeni warplanes pounding the Islamists from the air, foreign warships situated off the [...]

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Red Cross says thousands displaced in South Sudan

Red Cross says thousands displaced in South Sudan

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

The International Red Cross (ICHR) has said that thousands of people in South Sudan have been displaced as a result of the ongoing violence between the country and its northern neighbor Sudan. Since the beginning of the year, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to respond to mounting humanitarian needs in South Sudan. In [...]

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Yemen's tourism industry struggling as violence wracks country.

Yemen’s tourism sector in disarray

15 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: 2011 was a catastrophic year in terms of tourism in Yemen as the country was enthralled in a violent popular uprising. 2012 and the threat of terror attacks have turned out to be as lethal to the ailing industry sector. Despite a rich cultural heritage stretching millennia and breathtaking scenery, Yemen is its own [...]

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Huge explosion rocks the Yemeni capital

Huge explosion rocks the Yemeni capital

11 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: A huge explosion rocked on Thursday evening the Yemeni capital, Sana’a near the headquarters of American Embassy and the National Security. Witnesses said that black smoke was seen coming from nearby the area of national security Shawb district eastern of the capital, Sana’a. Sporadic clashes were heard within the area. No more details were [...]

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Alleged "thugs" attacking protesters in Cairo.

Egypt activists attacked, scores injured

30 April 2012 | Comments (0)

Egyptian activists reported being attacked by rubber bullets and homemade bombs during their protest outside the ministry of defense headquarters in Cairo on Sunday. The activists said “thugs” have continued to attack them with Molotov cocktails, knives and rubber bullets, injuring tens of protesters. The recent Sunday attack comes less than a day after the [...]

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Indian police officers.

Police force two warring caste groups in India to sign ‘peace’ agreement

25 April 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: Two fiercely warring caste groups have reached a peace agreement in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, after the intervention of the local police who brought the two groups together to help iron out their differences. Groups of the two castes one a upper caste (Servais) of Hindus and another a sub-below [...]

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Man shot dead by Salloum’s police

Man shot dead by Salloum’s police

12 April 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: Border police shot dead an 18-year-old man at the Salloum crossing near Egypt’s border with Libya, on Thursday. Some residents said that Fathi Abdel Basset, the victim, was killed at customs, while other claim that he was shot while driving a vehicle transporting cigarettes from Libya, after he bypassed a customs check. It should [...]

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Indian School

Violence against teachers keeps piling up in India

11 April 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: Indian teachers appear to be in the cross hairs of their own students. Close on the heels of a teacher being run over by a student who wasn’t allowed to cheat, another teacher has been hit on the head with an iron rod, by a student who the teacher had failed after he [...]

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Explosions rock Yemen capital

Explosions rock Yemen capital

2 April 2012 | Comments (1)

SANA’A: For the first time ever since President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced his departure from the presidency and the elections of Yemen’s new strongman, President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the capital was shaken on Sunday evening by a series of explosions, followed by a series of fierce gun fighting throughout several districts of the capital, [...]

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Yemen’s capital on highest alert, as clashes expected

Yemen’s capital on highest alert, as clashes expected

1 April 2012 | Comments (2)

SANA’A: As war planes loudly flew over the Yemeni capital this Sunday morning, reminders that fighting in Arhab and its vicinity were still raging, residents in the northern districts of the capital told Bikyamasr.com that soldiers loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and Sheikh Sadeeq al-Ahmar’s tribesmen had come back to their neighborhoods in their [...]

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Turkey says time is now for “moral intervention” in Syria

Turkey says time is now for “moral intervention” in Syria

1 April 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: With over 10,000 Syrian civilians have been killed in the 13-month-long uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey’s Prime Minister Reccip Tayyip Erdogan has called for intervention from the international community to end the bloodshed. “We need a moral intervention, we must ensure our consciences prevail. No other concerns, no other interests must interfere,” he [...]

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Yemen tribes deny clashes in North Sana’a

Yemen tribes deny clashes in North Sana’a

1 April 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: Yemeni tribes in north Sana’a denied on Saturday accusations of armed clashes between Yemen’s Republican Guards and suspected Al-Qaeda militants. In a statement posted by political opponents of the General People’s Congress which is still headed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, spokespersons confirmed that reports warning against the presence of AQAP militants in Arahab, [...]

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Israel shoots 8-year-old in eye, kills another on Friday protests

Israel shoots 8-year-old in eye, kills another on Friday protests

31 March 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: Israel shot a tear gas canister and hit an 8-year-old boy directly in the face on Friday during the latest crackdown against nonviolent protesters by the Israeli Defense Forces. The 8-year-old boy was shot in Nabi Saleh, a regular site for nonviolent action. Palestinians on Friday commemorated Land Day and the Global March to [...]

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37 killed in two days of unrest in Libya

37 killed in two days of unrest in Libya

28 March 2012 | Comments (0)

Tripoli (dpa) – Two days of tribal clashes in southern Libya have left 37 people dead, a news report said. Around 120 were injured when fighting broke out between members of the African Tabu tribe and two Arab tribes, news broadcaster Al Jazeera reported late Tuesday. The violence was triggered Monday when a car was [...]

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Police search for Philippines mayor, ex-governor in broadcaster’s killing

Police search for Philippines mayor, ex-governor in broadcaster’s killing

28 March 2012 | Comments (5)

Manila (dpa) – Philippine police on Wednesday launched a manhunt for a mayor and a former governor accused of masterminding the killing of a radio broadcaster and environmentalist. A court in Puerto Princesa City in Palawan province, 600 kilometers south-west of Manila, ordered on Tuesday the arrests of Coron town Mayor Mario Reyes and his [...]

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Woman thrown into Egypt’s Nile over divorce, highlights honor violence

Woman thrown into Egypt’s Nile over divorce, highlights honor violence

28 March 2012 | Comments (18)

According to news reports on Wednesday, an Egyptian man and his family tied up their daughter and threw her into the Nile river as a result of a divorce to her aging husband, who mistreat her and abused the young woman. Luckily, a fisherman saw the girl and rescued her before she died, Emirates 24/7 [...]

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Indian women face hardships on a massive scale.

India wife arrested for murdering husband, giving him bathroom burial

28 March 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old India woman has been arrested for murdering her allegedly alcoholic and violence-prone husband and burying the corpse in their own bathroom. Varsha Patel, a resident of Meerut, a small township located on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi, was arrested after neighbors smelled foul play and informed the police. The [...]

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Indian woman chops off attacker’s penis

Indian woman chops off attacker’s penis

27 March 2012 | Comments (1)

MUMBAI: An Indian woman from the outskirts of Delhi chopped off a man’s penis when he attempted to sexually assault her, police reported on Sunday evening. According to the report, the 37-year-old widow from Bakhtawarpur, responded to the attempted assult by taking out a knife and chopping off her assailants penis. “The victim’s husband passed [...]

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Calm in southern Libya following deadly clashes

Calm in southern Libya following deadly clashes

27 March 2012 | Comments (0)

Tripoli (dpa) – Relative calm has been restored in southern Libya after clashes erupted between two tribes, killing around 15 people, state-run media reported on Tuesday. Abdel Maguid Saif al-Nasr, member of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), told the Libyan News Agency that government troops were able to restore calm in the city of [...]

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HRW says Syrian regime using human shields

HRW says Syrian regime using human shields

26 March 2012 | Comments (0)

Beirut (dpa) – New York-based pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Addad of using civilians as human shields in their offensive against pro-democracy activists. Witnesses in the northern province of Idlib cited by HRW said they saw the army and pro-government militias force people to march [...]

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