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10/10/2011 5:55:15 PM
Officials in violence-wracked Bahrain begin work Monday on political reforms that include boosting parliamentary powers, but steps are dismissed as too little after more than eight months of clashes
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10/5/2011 12:20:31 PM
Protesters urged to use 'words' rather than 'bullets' in their fight for equality in the Sunni-ruled kingdom
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10/3/2011 3:15:50 PM
At least 14 Bahraini Shia sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the killing of a Pakistani man during unrest in March
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10/3/2011 10:33:22 AM
Armed militants bomb a police headquarter before taking hostage the police chief and mayor of Al-Baghdadi northwest of the Iraqi capital
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9/28/2011 3:41:01 PM
Shiites in Iran and Iraq are keeping a close eye at Syria's uprising that could bring to power hard-line Sunnis who are looking for a partner to strengthen their regional position
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9/27/2011 3:49:42 PM
A group of 38 women and seven girls arrested last week during a protest against Bahrain's parliamentary by-elections have reportedly been tortured or ill-treated, Amnesty International said
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9/27/2011 1:50:38 PM
Kuwaiti court jails Shiite tweeter for posting remarks that were deemed offensive to Sunni Muslims, while he denies charges claiming his account was hacked
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9/27/2011 12:00:21 PM
Iran says its foreign minister has met his Bahraini counterpart for the first time since the two neighboring countries withdrew their ambassadors over quelling of Shiite-led protests in Manama
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9/27/2011 10:06:16 AM
Advocacy group Human Rights Watch welcomed Saudi Arabia's decision to allow women to vote and run in municipal elections but said it came too late to allow them to take part in Thursday's polls
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9/24/2011 1:13:18 PM
Bahrainis vote Saturday to fill parliamentary seats vacated by opposition members unhappy over government efforts to address Shia Muslim grievances in the Sunni-ruled monarchy
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9/24/2011 10:17:58 AM
Bahraini police set up checkpoints and patrolled key roads Saturday in a massive show of force during highly charged parliamentary elections that Shiite-led opposition groups have vowed to boycott.
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9/23/2011 1:30:23 PM
The senior Shiite cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim slams Bahrain's Gulf Sunni rulers for creating a "fake democracy" ahead of parliamentary elections
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9/23/2011 1:02:42 PM
An opposition group in Bahrain says it plans to launch protests on Friday and Saturday ahead of parliamentary by-elections set for September 24 in the Gulf kingdom
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9/23/2011 11:27:51 AM
At least four people were killed and many others injured in a series of attacks in Baghdad, security sources said
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9/20/2011 1:27:52 PM
Suicide bombers hit municipal government offices in the city of Ramadi in Iraq's mainly Sunni Anbar province, security sources said. One source said the explosions had killed and wounded a number of people.
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9/19/2011 2:43:14 PM
Eight inmates were killed and many others injured in fire at an Interior Ministry jail in Baladiyat neighborhood in eastern Baghdad
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9/18/2011 7:53:09 PM
Iraq accuses foreign Arabs of playing a role in the killing of 22 Shiite pilgrims in the Sunni Anbar province, seeking to inflame the already-tensioned Iraqi scene
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9/13/2011 10:31:44 AM
Iraqi officials say gunmen killed 22 Shiite Muslim pilgrims on their to Syria as they were passing through Sunni province from the shrine city of Karbala
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9/4/2011 3:50:07 PM
Turkish rights activists protest the Bahraini king's visit, accusing his Sunni dynasty of heavy-handed crack-downs on pro-democracy demonstrators
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9/3/2011 1:05:17 PM
Nearly 20 Bahraini doctors who are jailed and face anti-state charges linked to the protests against the kingdom’s ruling Sunni dynasty have joined a hunger strike to protest trials
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