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Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 08:15
An Indian man who uploaded a video of an Emirati’s attack on a driver sits in a United Arab Emirates jail — a palpable sign of the region’s detrimental defamation laws as well as the country’s continued crackdown on social media freedom.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 08:20
Each man will head a vast system of state-run institutions and have legal authority over Jewish citizens in matters of marriage, divorce and women's rights.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 08:41
For the election Saturday to pick a new 50-seat Parliament there might be another boycott, but the real question is whether the vote will ease the internal pressures on Kuwait’s Western-backed ruling dynasty.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 09:29
U.S. Department of State on the political situation in South Sudan
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:36
The Sinai security crisis could potentially affect the smooth implementation of the army-sponsored transition plan, meaning that solving this security problem—rather than just containing it—should be a priority for the Egyptian army.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:45
Iraq is unable to stop its neighbor Iran from transferring weapons to Syria through its airspace, Iraq’s foreign minister said in a newspaper interview published Saturday.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:49
A senior Hamas official says the new Egyptian government's crackdown on militants in the Sinai Peninsula is part of an anti-Hamas campaign, the first criticism by the group of Egypt's new leadership.
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:59
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, the first U.S. official to meet new Egypt leadership, gets snubbed by both Islamists and Morsi opponents; U.S. refuses to say whether it views Morsi's removal as a coup, which would require it to halt aid.