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Libyans protest in Tripoli on 27 August to urge the newly-elected parliament to intervene to protect the national heritage after Islamist hardliners destroyed shrines across the country AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA
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Human Right’s Watch condemns attacks on Libyan Sufi shrines

NGO accuses government of refusing to stand up to Islamists over attacks

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Israelis have gone on protests in September 2011 demanding reforms (AFP File Photo)
activists

Israelis protest rising living costs

Hundreds demonstrate in front of Netanyahu’s house, protesting economic policy and tax…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows a member of the Syrian security forces inspecting the wreckage of a vehicle in Al-Mehdi Street in the Abu Remmaneh district of the Syrian capital Damascus on September 2, 2012 as Syrian state TV reported twin bombings near security service buildings in the centre of the capital and said they wounded four people. AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA
activists

Damascus blast and attacks on military installations on the rise

The continuing violence in Syria and the apparently well-coordinated attacks on military…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Amman

Jordanians protest skyrocketing fuel prices

Ten percent fuel price hike sparks outrage in Amman

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda founder and president Rached Ghannouch who ash been accused by opposition activists of increasingly authoritarian behaviour, speaks during a press conference in Tunis AFP PHOTO / SALAH HABIBI
ANHRI

Tunisian Islamists take to the streets

Friday protests demand greater action against old regime

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Bahrain women protesters (file photo) AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH
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First authorised protest in Bahrain gathers thousands

A mass rally in Bahrain for liberty and democracy

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
An opposition fighter shouts for help as he delivers the body of a civilian who was wounded during shelling by Syrian government forces outside a hospital in Syria's northern city of Aleppo AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
Al-assad

Aleppo clashes intensify, NAM summit condemns Al-Assad

Increased offensives within Syria, defections and mounting regional pressure

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Ambulances and firemen arrive following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on 28 August AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED
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Israeli airstrike targets militants, injures civilians

Hits against "two terror activity sites" in Gaza leave two civilians injured

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (right), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (centre) and Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi attend the Non-Alligned Movement summit in Tehran AFP PHOTO / MEHR NEWS / RAOUF MOHSENI
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Iranian nuclear programme comes under microscope as NAM wraps up

Ban Ki-moon makes use of his visit to Tehran, discusses the Iranian…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Jordanian news sites joined in an online campaign to protest against proposed amendments to the Press and Publications Law AFP PHOTO
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Jordanian online media hosts electronic protest

Press and Publication Law amendments stir electronic protest

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam