Vote monitors trained with funds from US In November, demonstrators decried what they called widespread vote rigging in Egypt’s parliamentary elections. US funds helped train election monitors who observed that election. By Farah Stockman Boston Globe Staff / February 13, 2011 WASHINGTON — A small, controversial effort launched under President George W. Bush […]
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 The most striking difference between the two countries is Internet access. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Developments in Egypt over the last two weeks brought Cuba to my mind. Why does a similar rebellion against five decades of repression there still appear to be a far-off dream? Part of the answer is in
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TRIPLETT: Who is Hu Jintao? Official niceties obscure his bloody record By William C. Triplett II The Washington Times January 14, 2011 President Obama makes a courtesy bow to welcome Chinese President Hu Jintao to the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington earlier this week. A report by the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center links
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February 1, 2011 Egypt’s leader has gambled that he can ride out the protests and hold on. It’s a pretty good gamble. By BRET STEPHENS Imagine yourself as Hosni Mubarak, master of Egypt for nearly 30 years. You’re old, unwell, detested and addicted to power. You could have orchestrated a graceful exit by promising to
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JANUARY 26, 2011 By MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Tens of thousands of protesters clashed with police in cities across Egypt on Tuesday to demand the ouster of the president, as shock waves from Tunisia’s successful revolt against its leader two weeks ago continued to rumble through the Middle East. WSJ’s Matt Bradley reports from Cairo on the
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JANUARY 24, 2011 Saved by Washington, the union wants to write its own labor laws. The top priority for the United Auto Workers this year is to organize one of the foreign, or so-called “transplant,” car makers. That makes perfect sense—for the UAW. Their rich labor contracts and stifling work rules helped bring low Detroit’s
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JANUARY 14, 2011 As the South votes to become independent, tens of thousands remain enslaved. By JOHN EIBNER AND CHARLES JACOBS Juba, Sudan On Jan. 9, the people of South Sudan began their week-long referendum to decide whether to separate from the Arab-Muslim North and form an independent country. But Achol Yum Deng didn’t vote.
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2011 looks grim for progress on women’s rights in Iraq Men view a Baghdad display that warns that women who don’t wear the hijab, or traditional Muslim head covering, will be punished in the afterlife. The display, which depicts women engulfed in flames, was erected by Islamist leaders as part of what many women see
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