People around the world are protesting this week, from Greece and Bulgaria to Pakistan and India.
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MUHAZZA VILLAGE, Bahrain — After nearly two years of frustration, the Arab Spring uprising against Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, a key US ally, is growing increasingly tense.
Following a series of brutal government crackdowns, young protesters who say they have little choice are taking a more militant approach, and in some cases, resorting to violence.
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A new round of protesters have hit the streets of Cairo over the last six days.
Is this just another protest, or is there something greater brewing in Egypt? We sat down with Erin Cunningham, our senior correspondent living in Egypt, to find out more on what’s behind the recent clashes.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — For the second week running anti-government demonstrators in Sudan are preparing for a showdown with security forces as popular protests gather momentum offering the hope that the country might yet enjoy its own “Arab Spring.”
But this is no copycat revolution: Sudanese people have taken to the streets to overthrow unpopular regimes in 1964 and 1985. Today’s protesters are hoping to do the same.
“After 23 years of endurance, the Sudanese people have decided to say enough is enough,” activist group Sudan Change Now said in a statement.
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JERUSALEM — On Thursday, Tel Aviv’s popular White Night festival turned, at least for the city’s mayor, Ron Hulda’i, suddenly dark.
The vigorously renewed Israeli social protest movement, which looks and feels very much like last year’s Occupy protests in the United States, has marred what is normally a highlight of early summertime, in which galleries remain open all night and writers discuss their works in cafés, turning it into a Black Nightboycotted by numerous artists.
Talk about kicking it up a notch: defying almost universal predictions that the movement, which will be one year old on July 14, was destined for nothing more significant than nostalgic remembrances, it has instead developed fresh force and a defiant new face in the past few days.
The upcoming weekend promises to be hot: mass rallies are being planned for every city on Saturday night, and if political reactions are any indication, mass participation is expected.
It all started with a tent.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — One year ago this week, Faizah Sulaimani was among the first small group of young protesters — less than 30 people, led by the Arab world’s first female Nobel Peace Prize winner — who gathered at the gates of Sanaa University to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down after 33 years in power.
Few Yemenis in those early days of change believed peaceful banner waving and chanting would do much to dislodge the world’s second longest serving non-royal ruler, a military man who rose to power in a violent coup and whose recent rule was characterized by a string of wars and the brutal repression of dissent.
(Read more — Yemen’s youth protesters lament their unfinished revolution)
