FEBRUARY 22, 2011, 11:56 P.M. ET Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Oil Soars, Stocks Fall as Libyan Rebels Take Energy Zone; Shipments Are Halted By LIAM PLEVEN, JONATHAN CHENG And GUY CHAZAN Libya’s descent into violence rattled global financial markets Tuesday, sending oil prices surging to their biggest gain in more than two years and driving […]
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February 16, 2011 Ann Coulter The Middle East is on fire again, and crazy Muslims with funny names aren’t helping things — Mahmoud, ElBaradei, al-Banna, Barack … The major new development is that NOW liberals want to get rid of a dictator in the Middle East! Where were they when we were taking out the
MIDDLE EAST NEWS FEBRUARY 21, 2011, 6:54 A.M. ET By CHARLES LEVINSON and TAHANI KARRAR-LEWSLEY CAIRO—Violent clashes between protesters and security forces snowballed in cities throughout eastern Libya Sunday, as the country’s leader, Moammar Gadhafi, struggled to crush an uprising aimed at ending his 42-year rule. Human Rights Watch said it had confirmed 233 deaths
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FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Iran’s Leadership Cracks Down In Aftermath of Protests, State Makes More Arrests, as White House Sharpens Support of the Opposition By FARNAZ FASSIHI The Iranian government threatened opposition leaders with execution and made a fresh wave of arrests, a day after the largest protests in a year prompted clashes in which at
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FEBRUARY 16, 2011 Protester Killed in Bahrain; Skirmishes in Yemen; Call for Rebel Executions in Iran By JOE PARKINSON, ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN BARNES Protests that started in Tunisia and spread across the Middle East have resulted in the deaths of two people in Bahrain, where the opposition bloc in parliament defected in response. Farnaz
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 In 1979, Western thinkers were quick to call the Ayatollah Khomeini ‘moderate’ and ‘progressive.’ By BRET STEPHENS It’s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a “Times Classic.” On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? The Saudi royal family is corrupt, infirm, increasingly criticized in social media—and about to face a delicate, perhaps divisive succession process. By KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE Riyadh, Saudi Arabia In any authoritarian regime, instability seems unthinkable up to the moment of upheaval, and that is true now
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Published February 11, 2011 | FoxNews.com AP2011 Feb. 11: Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, who handed control of the country to the military, at night in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. DEVELOPING: CAIRO — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed control to the military, Vice
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February 04, 2011By James Simpson If Egypt should fall, it will mark the beginning of the end for what little remaining stability there is in the Middle East. Jordan is facing similar unrest, as are Algeria and Yemen. Lebanon and Tunisia fell in January. It is highly unlikely that these events are unrelated. A combination
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AMERICAN THINKER February 08, 2011 Bill Kristol, Stand for Truth By Pamela Geller Bill Kristol has opened the French doors of his ivory tower, stepped out and deigned to address the great unwashed conservative quarter. High above the people and reality, he admonishes those on the right for not embracing the catastrophic events unfolding in
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