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Protests outside US Embassy in Cairo Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
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US envoy to Libya dies in consulate attack

Controversial film provokes protests in Cairo, Benghazi

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Emirati police during a security operation (photo: AFP/Marwan Naamani )
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Crackdown on UAE reformists continues

Over 60 now detained in government crackdown

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Yemeni Protestor chant slogans during a demonstration against terrorism and assassinations in the capital Sanaa AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED HUWAIS
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Yemeni security reshuffle

President sacks security officials loyal to ousted Saleh

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Pakistani rescuers move the dead body of a garment factory worker after fire erupted in the factory in Karachi AFP PHOTO / ASIF HASSAN
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Hundreds killed in two massive fires in Pakistan

Workers trapped as fire raged through two factories. Faulty generators and lack…

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Tunisian journalists of Assabah daily hold signs calling for freedom of the press during a protest in Tunis on 11 September AFP PHOTO / KHALIL
Annahda

Tunisian journalists protest government appointed directors

“We don’t want police mentality in our newspaper”

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Somalia policemen gather at the area of a bomb blast at the Jazeera hotel compound where the newly elected Somali president Hasan Sheikh Mahmud was staying, in Mogadishu AFP PHOTO/SIMON MAINA
Al-shabab

New Somali President survives assassination attempt as first test of office

Hassan Sheikh Mohamed targeted by Al-Shabab suicide bombers

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Syrian civilians who entered Turkey illegally are prevented to move further and asked to return back to Syria by Turkish border patrol on the Syrian-Turkish border on 11 September AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
Arab League

Turkey to relocate Syrian refugees

Turkish-based NGO believes number of Syrian refugees in Turkey could reach 300,000…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Indian cartoonist Aseem Trivedi speaks with the media after being released from Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai AFP PHOTO / PUNIT PARANJPE
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Indian cartoonist released on bail

Anti-corruption cartoonist whose arrest sparked international concern over freedom of expression rights…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Supporters of the Syrian women’s hunger strike outside the Arab League in central Cairo hold candles for those who have died in Syria Rachel Adams
activist

International inaction provokes Syrian women to hunger strike

Female activists tell Daily News Egypt why they are hunger striking

Sarah El Masry
Sarah El Masry
The SCC decided on Monday to return the election draft law to the Shura Council, which drafted the law, after rejecting five articles as “unconstitutional”. (File Photo) AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI
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Constituent Assembly keeps local administration centralised, governors will not be elected

Local administration would be tightly watched by the central government in Cairo

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein