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China Calls for Immediate Cease-Fire in Libya

BEIJING -- China called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Libya where the U.S. and European nations have launched punishing airstrikes to enforce a U.N. no-fly zone. All parties must "immediately cease fire and resolve issues through peaceful means," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regularly scheduled...

Funeral Processions Mix With Violence in the Arab World

Violence mixed with funeral processions and anti-government demonstrations today, with more deaths reported in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. Tens of thousands of defiant demonstrators swarmed main streets and squares in North Africa and the Middle East, as calls for change sweep the region on the heels of popular revolts in...

Booming Bahrain Store Lifts Veil on Sex, Female Owner Says

(Dec. 22) -- That woman in the traditional headscarf and abaya? Leave your stereotypes at the door -- she's here to help with your sex life. In what could be called "Sex and the Souq," businesswoman Khadija Ahmed's store is proving such big business in Bahrain, a small Arab country in the Persian Gulf, that she is ready...

In Syria, Web Provides Small Window of Media Freedom

(Sept. 30) -- Digital freedom in Damascus? Don't count on it. During the times I've visited Syria, as a tourist not a journalist, I never encountered the same degree of state control that existed in North Korea or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But most of the media is state owned, the rest is state friendly and public dissent is...

Arabs in Military Try to Rise Above Massacre

WASHINGTON (Nov. 6) -- The shooting rampage at Fort Hood could make life noticeably more difficult for Arabs and Muslims serving in the U.S. military. Soon after the killings, witnesses said that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged gunman, had shouted "Allahu Akbar," the Arabic phrase for "God is great," as he fired....