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Despite the relentless scathing attacks from his critics, President Trump has such a long list of achievements - as outlined in his recent State of the Union Address - that his first year in office may actually be remembered as one of the most successful - if not in history - then certainly in recent memory - for first-term presidents.
He might still be living in the lap of luxury, but make no mistake Tunisia's former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family are prisoners.
The Western media has been somewhat caught out by the rapid demise of one of the most brutal dictators in the world.
(Cairo) Nervous Arab leaders watching young Tunisian demonstrators force an ageing strongman into sweeping concessions are wondering if their own old established formula of political repression will have to change too.
Less than a month after a young Tunisian graduate, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire triggering a popular revolt against the 23-year rule of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the president has fled to Saudi Arabia, and commentators are speculating on which U.S.-backed tyrants may be next.
On February 25, as he calmly walked up to the perimeter fence of the Israeli Embassy, Aaron Bushnell uttered those words. On that day, Bushnell set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington in protest at the US and Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza. His last words on this Earth, as the fire consumed him, were: "Free Palestine!" Bushnell's self-immolation was as horrific a death as a human being can experience, and it was designed to be.
The political dramas unfolding in Tunisia, Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries present pivotal opportunities: They improve the prospects for harnessing science and its values to advance sustainable and equitable development, openness and democracy in the Islamic world.
Amazing! While in Israel, an American vice president explicitly condemns an Israeli decision to build yet more homes, 1,600 apartments, in occupied Arab East Jerusalem.
Out of some fifty countries I visited and five where I worked as a professor; the US, Canada, Switzerland, Kuwait, and my birth country Egypt, observing local diet especially among young university students, I found Egyptians consume sugar and salt the most.
On Aug 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S. launched nuclear attacks against the civilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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