| Bahrain: Gulf union plans expected to get push from Arab Spring, Iran worries Washington Post RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The prime minister of unrest-wracked Bahrain says Gulf Arab leaders are ready for closer ties on security and foreign policy issues to confront pressures such as Arab Spring uprisings and tensions with Iran. |
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| U.S. praises Algeria for defying Arab Spring Examiner.com Algeria’s ruling party won handily, somehow weathering the Arab Spring’s wave of change, as Islamists lost significant ground. In a statement released on Saturday, Secretary Clinton specifically commended the Algerian government for allowing … |
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| Vote confirms Algeria as Arab Spring exception Times of Malta Photo: AFP The Arab Spring’s wind of change fell dead on an Algerian regime that derives its strength from two brutal conflicts and prior experience of Islamism, analysts said yesterday. Algeria has had Islamism, nobody here can forget that period. |
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| Algeria result bucks trend of ‘Arab Spring‘ Arab News By REUTERS ALGIERS: European Union observers yesterday gave a qualified endorsement to an Algerian parliamentary election which handed victory to the ruling party, bucking the trend of the “Arab Spring” revolts. Some opposition forces expressed … |
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| Lessons of the Arab Spring Montreal Gazette That, in turn, was less than a month after they helped Tunisians oust their own dictator of 24 years, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, in what proved to be only the beginning of the revolutionary Arab Spring. While protesters clashed with police on the street, … |
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| In Bahrain, the spark behind Pearl Revolution still glows USA TODAY The Pearl Revolution, as it was called, sought to emulate the Arab Spring uprisings that were sprouting throughout the region and would lead to the toppling of dictators in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Today, the traffic circle in the capital of Manama … |
