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10/25/2011 12:04:15 PM
Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exiled uncle arrives in Riyadh to offer his condolences over the death of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
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Arts & Culture
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Film
10/25/2011 10:11:33 AM
The Arab Spring of pro-democracy uprisings features prominently -- both directly and more subtly - in the selections at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival, kicking off in the Qatari capital this week
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10/25/2011 12:38:00 AM
Moderate Islamists claim victory in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Islamists are challenging for power after the Arab Spring
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Business
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Economy
10/24/2011 2:14:50 PM
Fundamental reform is needed to abolish crony capitalism and satisfy the younger generations driving the Arab world's uprisings, say World Economic Forum attendees in Jordan
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10/24/2011 1:32:20 PM
Election results expected on Tuesday in country that launched the Arab Spring; Islamist Ennahda Party expected to win most votes but fall short of a majority
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Region
10/23/2011 6:53:18 PM
The region's first post-Arab Spring poll sees higher-than-expected voter turnout amid a small handful of violations, reports Ahram Online
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10/23/2011 6:05:56 PM
Election authority in Tunisia says that the turnout reaches 70 per cent with just over two hours of the polling to go
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10/23/2011 5:21:44 PM
Opposition Islamists in Jordan demand constitutional reforms, calling on the king and security agencies not to interfere in the political process
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10/23/2011 4:16:46 PM
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges Tunisians to establish a democratic state through fair and transparent elections and to be united in the face of economic, political and social challenges
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10/23/2011 10:02:30 AM
In the Tunisian capital, hours before polls open at 7am on Sunday, 23 October, for the first elections in the Arab Spring, everything seems different, but fears remain
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10/23/2011 9:43:13 AM
Libya's Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in an interview with the BBC on Saturday he wished former dictator Muammar Gaddafi had not been killed and instead had been put on trial for his crimes
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10/23/2011 9:21:50 AM
Polls opens Sunday in Tunisia's first-ever free elections, with an Islamist party poised to win nine months after the surprise toppling of strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali that sparked the Arab Spring
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Region
10/22/2011 5:56:12 PM
The head of Election committee in Tunisia calls on the government not to interfere in the electoral process, in the first democratic elections to be held after the Revolution
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Region
10/22/2011 4:58:38 PM
Millions of Tunisians ready to vote tomorrow in the first democratic elections after the toppling of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in January
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10/22/2011 2:28:44 PM
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemns the "killings and massacre" in Syria in an interview with CNN, in Iran's strongest criticism yet of its key ally's deadly seven-month-old crackdown on dissent
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Region
10/22/2011 2:06:45 PM
Jordan's King Abdullah on Saturday urges Israel and the Palestinians to look to the Arab Spring uprisings for inspiration and to restart their stalled peace talks
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Region
10/22/2011 1:41:44 PM
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah pushes cautious social changes in the kingdom and guides it through a turbulent time that included an al Qaeda uprising and confrontation with Iran
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10/22/2011 11:25:47 AM
Swiss prosecutors begin investigating Algerian former defence minister Khaled Nezzar for suspected war crimes
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10/22/2011 11:01:41 AM
Faced with suspicions of an execution by a lynch mob, the order that "nobody here killed Gaddafi" has gone around to the fighters who captured alive the ex-strongman of Libya
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10/22/2011 10:58:49 AM
Tunisians vote on Sunday in their first ever democratic election which could set a template for other Arab countries emerging from the Arab Spring uprisings
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