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Oct 24, 2013

Top News: Tunisia’s Salvation Front Suspends Participation in National Dialogue

By MENASource

Tunisia’s National Salvation Front opposition parties have decided to suspend their participation in the national dialogue until the current government, led by interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, clarifies its commitment to step down, the leader of one party said on Wednesday.

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Oct 24, 2013

Top News: ‘Harming National Unity’ Could Become a Terrorist Crime: Sources

By EgyptSource

The new draft law on terrorism currently under works expands the definition of terrorism to include attempting to storm presidential headquarters and foreign embassies, murder in public and harming national unity, according to sources familiar with the legislative committee of the cabinet discussing the law.

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Oct 24, 2013

Egypt after July 3: A Crossroads for Democracy

By Amr Hamzawy

Over the past several months, the democratization movement in Egypt has been at a crossroads. Since July 3, countless secular political parties and movements have stood under their liberal and leftist banners, among them Communists, Socialists, Nasserists, and Arab Nationalists, in support of a military intervention into politics. They supported the removal of an elected […]

North Africa

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Oct 24, 2013

Denial Not a Good Plan

By Richard LeBaron

The political impasse in Bahrain has certain similarities to the recent bewildering lack of constructive politics in Washington—clinging to hard-line positions, the inability to find areas of compromise, and deliberate exaggeration in the media. And some figures in both countries do not seem much interested in finding ways to move forward.

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Oct 23, 2013

Top News: Eleven Nations Meeting in London Endorse Peace Talks

By MENASource

The United States and ten Arab and European nations expressed support on Tuesday for the convening of a peace conference next month in Geneva to begin negotiations on a political settlement to end the civil war in Syria.

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Oct 23, 2013

Top News: Cabinet Says Emergency Law to End Mid-November

By EgyptSource

Cabinet spokesperson Sherif Shawqi has claimed Egypt’s emergency law will not continue past mid-November. In remarks on Tuesday, Shawqi said the Cabinet does not intend to extend the emergency law in the wake of the Warraq church attack.

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Oct 23, 2013

Syria: The London 11 on Geneva

By Frederic C. Hof

The London 11 core group of the Friends of the Syrian People on October 22 took aim at giving a very skeptical opposition Syrian National Coalition a basis for attending a Geneva peace conference (Geneva 2) in late November.

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Oct 23, 2013

The Muslim Brotherhood: A New Ban

By Yussef Auf

With the issuing of the September 23 ruling by the Cairo Court for Urgent Affairs, banning the Muslim Brotherhood group’s activities and confiscating its funds, the group has entered a new phase. On October 2, the Egyptian cabinet issued a decision forming a committee to handle and execute the ruling, and to ascertain the number […]

North Africa

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Oct 22, 2013

Top News: Egyptian Christians fear Chaos after Wedding Bloodshed

By EgyptSource

An autopsy report has revealed the way the victims of the Warraq church attack on Sunday were killed, the state-run Al-Ahram reported on Tuesday. The initial forensic report on the victims of showed that the assailants used machine guns, and the victims were shot in the back.

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Oct 22, 2013

Top News: US Missile Attacks Killed Civilians in Yemen, Says Rights Group

By MENASource

US missile strikes, including armed drone attacks, have killed dozens of civilians in Yemen as the United States tries to crack down on al-Qaeda in the country, a prominent human rights organization said on Tuesday.

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