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Syria Spanked by Arab League
Max Read · 11/12/11 10:38AMMubarak Trial Delayed Two Months
Max Read · 10/30/11 08:33AMGaddafi's Final Resting Place: 'Secret Desert Grave'
Max Read · 10/24/11 07:18PMTunisians Voted Today
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Almost 70 percent of registered voters in Tunisia turned out for an election today—the country's first since its former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country in January. Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party (with a "commitment to democracy and women's rights") headed by ex-exile Rachid Ghannouchi, is expected to win, though it may be forced to form a coalition, while the secular Progressive Democratic Party will likely take second place. In Sidi Bouzid, the rural town where the self-immolation of fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi kicked off the weeks of protests that eventually ousted Ben Ali—and, arguably, the Egyptian and Libyan regimes—Tunisians crowded the polls:
Here's the Clearest Video Yet of Gaddafi's Capture
Max Read · 10/23/11 09:36AMLibyan news organization Freedom Group just posted this video of the moments directly after Libyan rebels captured former dictator Muammar Gaddafi. It's the clearest video yet of Gaddafi's arrest, and unsettling to watch; as in previous videos, there's no direct evidence that the dictator was summarily executed (as has been speculated), but the footage of a bloody, seemingly terrified Gaddafi being shoved and hit in the head doesn't inspire faith in the restraint of his captors. (Michael Van Poppel of Breaking News, working off this Global Post video of the same scene, thinks that Gaddafi was "sodomized" by one of his captors, apparently with a rifle.)
Yemen President Says He'll 'Leave Power in Coming Days'
Max Read · 10/08/11 09:39AMIsraeli Ambassador Leaves Egypt as Protestors Break In to Embassy
Max Read · 09/10/11 08:58AMOver 100 Reportedly Dead in Syria as Army Assaults Major City
Max Read · 07/31/11 01:28PMEgypt Fires 669 Police Officers
Max Read · 07/13/11 11:03PMWhat Is Jon Huntsman Doing at This Chinese Revolution?
Jim Newell · 02/24/11 01:01PMHere's a clip from China's "Jasmine Revolution" protests on Sunday in Beijing, where a smiling U.S. Ambassador (and possible presidential candidate) Jon Hunstman walks into the middle of the crowd! He tells the cameraman that he's just there "to look around," and he then leaves. The video (with its hilarious soundtrack) was posted on the Chinese nationalist site M4 along with this breathless warning about U.S. meddling: