Child Brides
Every year, an estimated 10 million girls worldwide are married before they turn 18, usually with no say in when or whom they marry.
Mob rape of foreign woman exposes scale of sexual violence in Egypt
The woman was stripped and attacked for 10 minutes. She was afterward taken away in an ambulance.
Protesters, political groups in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for ‘Friday of Pride’
Organized marches left Cairo mosques after noon prayers and headed for Tahrir, the heart of the Egyptian revolution protests last year.
Dutch plan ban on Muslim face veils next year
Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV), which helps give the Liberal-Christian Democrat coalition a majority in parliament, has set considerable political store on getting the so-called burqa ban passed into law.
Scores storm Syrian embassy in Cairo
Egyptian security officials arrived and took the protesters out of the building. No arrests were made, according to AFP news agency.
Car bomb attack outside Baghdad hospital kills 31, say medics
An interior ministry official confirmed the explosion in Zafraniyah, which struck at 11:00 am (08:00 GMT), but said it was caused by a suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed car.
U.N. warns arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram and al-Qaeda
The U.N. Security Council will discuss the report, which was prepared by a U.N. assessment team that met with officials from countries in the region, at a meeting later on Thursday.
Yemen’s ‘parallel revolution’ inspires street-level protests
“They may have altered the leadership but at the ground level we see no changes. The same corrupt officials who ruled for decades are still running our country,” said Ahmed Al-Zumair, a 45-year-old civil servant.
Turkey on wrong track over Armenia
The French Senate on Monday approved legislation under which anyone in France who denies that the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turk forces amounted to genocide could face imprisonment.
Sarkozy to Quit Politics if He Loses Re-Election
Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy a sore loser? Sarkozy claimed last weekend that he will quit politics if he is not re-elected.