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YEMEN Today, Apr 18, 2011

Impoverished Yemen's economy hard hit by protests
The Associated Press
The economic woes mirror those that surfaced in other Arab countries that either already underwent similar uprisings, or are still grappling with the mass protests. But they carry a particular weight in Yemen, where concerns are mounting that President ...
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Tehran supports the Arab spring ... but not in Syria
The Guardian
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, even labelled the Arab uprising as "an Islamic awakening" inspired by Iran's 1979 revolution. "Today's events in the north of Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and certain other countries have another sense for the ...
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The Guardian
Yemenis Fear Chaos Could Erupt after Saleh Goes
Yemen Post
This man has experienced different events and is forceful respected by a large portion of the Yemeni people. He came back to Yemen and contributed to the efforts of protecting the republican revolution that ended the imamate rule. ...
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Voices of disenchantment
The Hindu
His death, and a few other incidents that followed, led to a chain of mass uprisings that quickly engulfed Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen. The world saw what the people there called “a day of rage”. So far two heads of government have been overthrown ...
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The Hindu
VIEW: The revolution syndrome —M Hassan Hakeem
Daily Times
There have been a number of revolts and worse humanitarian crises in recent years (if the Rwandan genocides of the early 1990s and the Yemen uprising are anything to go by), where NATO, with the US at the helm, did nothing. ...
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Regional turmoil concentrates minds
Financial Times
On the other, revolutions from Egypt to Yemen have reinforced a sense of malaise and a feeling that, 50 years on from independence from Britain, a country that is the world's 15th-richest and one of its top oil exporters, should be doing better. ...
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Libya's Opposition in Ajdabiya Beats Back Attack by Qaddafi's Forces
Bloomberg
Rebels have struggled for weeks to take and hold cities in central Libya, which have been the focus of most of the fighting since the uprising began in February, calling for deliveries of heavy weaponry and for the coalition led by the North Atlantic ...
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Tunisia and Egypt advancing women's right together with the revolution
iloubnan.info
The decree also excludes as candidates anybody who served during the past 10 years in the government or the former ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was toppled in January by a popular uprising. ...
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Gambia rejects Alassane Ouattara as president of Ivory Coast
Myjoyonline.com
That there is such a media blackout of the uprising in Burkina Faso, but an up-to-the-minute reporting of events in Yemen, Syria, Ivory Coast etc. shows that the so called international news media are the mouth pieces of certain satanic powers with a ...
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Myjoyonline.com
The Arab Spring's First 100 Days
The Jewish Week
This week marks the first 100 days of what has come to be known as the Arab Uprising or Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia and soon spread to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya and beyond. It is too soon to tell what ...
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Thousands rally to support democracy in Bahrain
Daily Times
KARACHI: Thousands of Karachiites on Sunday took out a protest rally against the desecration of holy Quran in America, and to support the ongoing democratic movements and uprising in the Arab world. The 'Azmat-e-Quran and Difa-e-Bahrain rally' was ...
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William McGowan: Keller and Cablegate
Power Line (blog)
Cables from Yemen quote President Ali Abdullah Saleh telling General David Petraeus that Yemen would take responsibility for drone missiles actually fired by the US He was also quoted as saying he didn't mind the smuggling of whiskey into his country ...
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The President's Men?
World Policy Institute (blog)
Sustained popular protests, trickling down from Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Yemen, have confronted the government of Bashar al-Assad with a crisis of legitimacy, badly shaking its confidence. So far, the regime has been able to rely on the Syrian army ...
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World Policy Institute (blog)
Libya and coalition conspiracy
Nigerian Tribune
While rising to the demands of Libyan rebels, they turned a blind eye to similar events in Bahrain, Yemen and Jordan. The rulers are, of course, allies who may be under the threat of al Queda. That is an excuse. What has made people in other lands ...
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Libya Rebels Draw on Benghazi Committees for 'Win or Die' Fight
Bloomberg
The Libyan revolt, now in its third month, is the deadliest of the dozen pro-democracy protest movements that shook the Arab world since mid-December, toppling the regimes in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, and threatening those of Bahrain, Yemen and ...
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Crisis in Democracy in Bangladesh
American Chronicle
Decades long deprivation, repression, suppression of the freedom of movement freely and speech coupled with wide scale unemployment and corruption have made younger generation to revolt against despotic regimes like Egypt, Libya, Tunisia or Yemen. ...
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Resistance conference: Take the power back!
Green Left Weekly
Since the fall of Mubarak, democratic movements have intensified in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Algeria, Morocco and Oman. The whole Middle East is in revolt and it is people power that is driving the process. In Europe, governments have implemented ...
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Green Left Weekly
Brent replacing WTI as benchmark crude?
Oil & Gas Journal
KCB analysts also said, "Oil prices have been driven higher by rising geopolitical concerns with unrest in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, together with upcoming elections in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil exporter."
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Will Mubarak face the death penalty?
The Voice of Russia
Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak, deposed after a mass uprising in the country, may face the death penalty if he is found guilty of premeditated killings, Egyptian media reports. The Al Ahram newspaper cites the head of Cairo's Appeals Court, ...
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The Voice of Russia
Iran showed the way to neighbours to protest
Express Buzz
Young Iranians, who took to the streets after a stolen election in 2009, showed their neighbours how to launch a peaceful democratic uprising. Unfortunately, the regime that smashed the Iranian quest for democracy also had a lesson to teach its ...
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World news in brief | Japan has plan for hobbled nuclear power plant
Kansas City Star
PROTESTS IN YEMEN: Protesters calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh gathered across Yemen on Sunday, while opposition officials met with mediators in neighboring Saudi Arabia to seek a way out of the political crisis. ...
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Kansas City Star
'Official History' of the Bay of Pigs Still, Fifty Years Later, Classified ...
OpEdNews
US operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Colombia, Somalia, Pakistan and Yemen all can be compared to the Bay of Pigs. WikiLeaks has lifted the veil on much of these US operations revealing that assassinations or extrajudicial/targeted killings of ...
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Libyan Rebels Battle Qaddafi Forces as Migrants Flee Misrata
BusinessWeek
Rebels have struggled for weeks to take and hold cities in central Libya, which have been the focus of most of the fighting since the uprising began in February, calling for deliveries of heavy weaponry and for the coalition led by the North Atlantic ...
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'Humanitarian Iintervention' in Libya: The Truth
The Island.lk (subscription)
As Noam Chomsky has correctly pointed out, the West that is very much vocal in case of Libya, Iran and Syria, is almost silent when the uprisings in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Bahrain and Jordan were crushed by equally authoritarian undemocratic ...
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The Island.lk (subscription)
Funeral, protest draw fire in Syria, Yemen
NWAOnline (subscription)
... anti-government protester in Syria on Sunday, killing at least three people on a day when tens of thousands of people took to the streets nationwide as part of an uprising against the country's authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said. ...
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A Look at Today's Uprisings in the Arab World | FDL News Desk
Protests Throughout the Arab World Today as Uprising Continues April 1, 2011; Yemen and Bahrain Uprisings Appear to Be on Different Trajectories March 20, ...
news.firedoglake.com/.../a-look-at-todays-uprisings-in-the-ara...
Yemeni uprising diary | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt
Yemeni anti-government protesters shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Sanaa, April 14, ...
www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/400520
Today's News-Yemen «ScrollPost.com
Practically all of today's action has been in the Sheikh Othman district and in Crater. ..... Yemen Revolution-News Analysis-04-03-2011-(Part1) ...
www.scrollpost.com/blog/subject/yemen/page/2
Yemen President Loses Backing From Arab Gulf Amid Uprising
Yemen also revoked the license of Qatar-based Al Jazeera television yesterday because of a “sabotage scheme aimed at inciting strife,” state-run Saba news ...
www.saudinewstoday.com/.../56168__Yemen+President+Lose...
Yemen Today - Let the people of Yemen savor the taste of triumph
News | Yemen young volunteers gain humanitarian consciousness ... time in history that there have been widespread uprisings against long ruling dictators. ...
www.yemen-today.com/go/.../let_the_people_of_yemen.html



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