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Hopes lie crushed as Tunisians mark a decade since revolution

Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, hopes for a better future lie crushed, and in the rural town where it began, few are celebrating. It was in Sidi Bouzid that Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit and vegetable salesman angered by police harassment, set himself alight...

International community should respond to Yemen: Experts

Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia should pull out from war-torn Yemen where 24 million people, half of whom are children need urgent aid, experts said.  On March 2011, popular uprising erupted in Yemen against Ali Abdullah Salih who ruled the country for over 20 years....

Bodies of four children wash up on Libyan coast

The Libyan Red Crescent said the bodies of four children aged between five and 10 had washed ashore west of the capital Tripoli on Wednesday after a migrant boat sank. "We were informed (Wednesday) of a boat that was sinking on the high sea with 30 people on board" in the Zawiya area, the...

Troops disengaged under Yemen deal: Saudi-led coalition

The military side of the Riyadh Agreement between the Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) has been successfully implemented, the Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday. “The troop disengagement in [the southern] Abyan province and Aden city has been carried out...