NYPD Shuts Down Wall Street
Protesters had hoped to take command of Wall Street on September 17, but the New York Police Department quickly showed them who was in charge, by barricading all entrances to the heart of America's financial institutions.
Protesters had hoped to take command of Wall Street on September 17, but the New York Police Department quickly showed them who was in charge, by barricading all entrances to the heart of America's financial institutions.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.28.2011
Disenfranchised citizens across the Arab world are continuing to take to the streets as part of protests inspired by demonstrations that successfully ...
Posted 05.28.2011
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AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.25.2011
DARAA, Syria — Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting a...
Time | RANIA ABOUZEID | Posted 05.25.2011
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Telegraph | Cassandra Jardine | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | By AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011
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Posted 05.25.2011
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Posted 05.25.2011
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Posted 05.25.2011
In honor of International Women's Day, leaders and rights activists have been prasing the role of women in the protests that toppled dictators in Tuni...
Posted 05.25.2011
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Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011
Sometimes people are so hopeful about the prospect of more bloodshed spilled in the Middle East that they resort to stretching the truth to further their agenda.
AP | BEN HUBBARD and KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — Hundreds of thousands poured out of mosques and staged protests across the Arab world Friday, some trying to shake off autocratic rulers...
businessinsider.com | Wadzanai Mhute | Posted 05.25.2011
The probability of Muammar al-Qaddafi losing power in the rebellion is 75% on inTrade. Although the country is in a state of war, the 68-year-old lea...
GlobalPost | Charles M. Sennott | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO, Egypt -- The historic events in Cairo's Tahrir Square were sparked by largely secular Egyptian youth who came together through social networkin...
Posted 05.25.2011
Witnesses say Bahrain security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters as the violence in Manama continues as part of a bold attempt to ...
AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 05.25.2011
DAKAR, Senegal — A man who set himself on fire in front of the presidential palace in Senegal on Friday died from his wounds hours later in the ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Inspired by popular revolts that ousted much-maligned rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, a series of anti-government protests are continuing to gain pace ac...
wsj.com | By CHARLES LEVINSON | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO--Moaz Abdel Karim, an affable 29-year-old who was among a handful of young activists who plotted the recent protests here, is the newest face of...
Reuters | Andrew Hammond | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY and SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 05.25.2011
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AP | Posted 05.25.2011
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GlobalPost | Donald Kirk | Posted 05.25.2011
SEOUL, South Korea -- Egypt's biggest businessman holding hands with Kim Jong Il. This image, from an official photograph that also features the Dear...
Posted 05.25.2011
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