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April 22, 2011 -- Updated 2221 GMT (0621 HKT) | Filed under: Web
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Officials confirm only 1,800 deaths as grim search for the missing in tsunami-ravaged northeast continues; Millions without water, food or power
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People searched for survivors of a collapsed building in Iwaki city, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday. More Photos »
By MARTIN FACKLER and MARK McDONALD
Published: March 12, 2011
NAKAMINATO, Japan — While nuclear experts were grappling with...
Gallery: Egypt- and Tunisia-inspired protests spread through Middle East, North Africa: Motivated by recent shows of political strength by neighbors in Egypt, demonstrators in the Middle East and North Africa are taking to the streets of many cities to rally for...
By ANTHONY SHADID
Published: January 29, 2011
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In Yemen, the chants invoked Tunisia, a continent away. A Lebanese newspaper declared that all of the Middle East was watching Egypt. A long-dead North African poet’s most famous poem has become the anthem of a moment the most...
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: January 29, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — It was late at night and totally dark when I first met David Kato. He had been described to me as “the most out” gay Ugandan and the country’s leading gay rights crusader, reviled by many, revered by a small few — but...
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2011; 3:17 PM
For decades, the consensus scientific opinion has held that anatomically modern humans first migrated out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, heading north into the eastern Mediterranean region and then on to...
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 27, 2011; 4:46 PM
CAIRO - Abdel Zaher Dandarwi does not look like a revolutionary.
At 53, his hair is graying at the temples, and his eyes betray more fatigue than fury.
But it was fatigue - with the daily corruption, the...
Egyptian military delegation at Pentagon for annual meeting
Awkward timing -- or a potentially restraining influence on the behavior of Egyptian security forces?
Asked about anti-government protests sweeping Egypt, and recent unrest leading to government change in Tunisia and Lebanon,...
Lettre Ouverte de Calixthe Beyala à Béchir Ben Yahmed de Jeune Afrique: "Ce en quoi je crois. Ou pas."
Calixte Beyala
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D’aussi loin que me porte ma mémoire, il me semble qu’une seule et unique fois, je fus en désaccord avec vous, très cher Béchir Ben YAHMED. Et je vous le...