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Jolie, U.N. Refugee Chief Land In Lampedusa

Jolie, U.N. Refugee Chief Land In Lampedusa

06-19-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Seventy miles northwest Tunisia is the 7.8 square mile island of Lampedusa, the southern-most portion of Italy. The normal population of the island is around…

Saudi Women Stage Driving Protest

Saudi Women Stage Driving Protest

06-17-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Sometimes, change comes one traffic ticket at a time. For women, Saudi Arabia is about three steps up from living under the Taliban. Women can…

King Abdullah Outlines First Steps In Reform

King Abdullah Outlines First Steps In Reform

06-12-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The protests in Jordan have been fairly low-key compared to the rest of the region, and the reason for that is the early and sincere…

New Oil Find In Gulf

New Oil Find In Gulf

06-09-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell ExxonMobil has announced that a new oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico may be one of the largest found in recent years.…

Qaddafi Could Face War Crimes Charges For Rapes

Qaddafi Could Face War Crimes Charges For Rapes

06-07-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Rape as a function of war has always been a tactic that made a sick sort of sense. Soldiers gang raping women in villages is…

Qaddafi Vows To Die In Tripoli

Qaddafi Vows To Die In Tripoli

06-07-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell One more time….Col. Moammar Qaddafi has again vowed to “stay in our land dead or alive.” NATO has begun bombing military and government facilities in…

Yemeni President Will Not Return

Yemeni President Will Not Return

06-07-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell A single rocket attack may have ended the months-long Yemeni protest movement to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh. He was airlifted to Saudi Arabia over…

Egyptians Honor First Anniversary Of Activist’s Death

Egyptians Honor First Anniversary Of Activist’s Death

06-06-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell The West knows the name and story of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vender who set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid…