By Al Arabiya with Agencies Egyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago. Voting passed off calmly for the most part, but candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was Mubarak’s last prime minister, [...]
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With Mubarak gone, Egyptians enjoy first real chance to choose a leader
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on May 23, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/05/23/with-mubarak-gone-egyptians-enjoy-first-real-chance-to-choose-a-leader/
Yemen’s Saleh formally steps down after 33 years at helm, hands over power to Hadi
By Al Arabiya with Agencies Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh backed his successor Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi and said that the fight against al-Qaeda should continue. “I hand over the banner of revolution… to safe hands,” said Saleh, the fourth veteran Arab leader to fall in just over a year, standing beside Hadi. Saleh urged [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on February 27, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/02/27/yemens-saleh-formally-steps-down-after-33-years-at-helm-hands-over-power-to-hadi/
BP loses attempt to share Deepwater Horizon oil spill costs | The Guardian
An attempt by BP to offload a major part of its Gulf of Mexico oil-spill compensation bill on to the US rig operator Transocean has been thrown out by a US court. The setback comes in the run-up to the main legal case against BP and its partners on 27 February in New Orleans, which [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on January 28, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/01/28/bp-loses-attempt-to-share-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-costs-the-guardian/
BBC News – French Senate passes Armenian genocide law
The French Senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it a criminal offence to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I. Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died in 1915-16 as the Ottoman empire split. Turkey rejects the term genocide and says the number was much [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on January 23, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/01/23/bbc-news-french-senate-passes-armenian-genocide-law/
King’s final message: Poverty is a civil rights battle – In America – CNN.com Blogs
By Stephanie Siek, CNN (CNN) – On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, some will volunteer, some will attend celebrations of his life and legacy, some will do nothing at all. “I have a dream,” the title of King’s best known speech, will be repeated countless times, along with well-known stories about his commitment to nonviolence, [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on January 16, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/01/16/kings-final-message-poverty-is-a-civil-rights-battle-in-america-cnn-com-blogs/
Giffords among those marking one year since shooting – CNN.com
Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is among those in Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday to mark one year since a shooting rampage that left her and 12 others wounded and six people dead, an anniversary that her chief of staff said has been “difficult emotionally for everybody.” The congresswoman began her day by taking [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on January 8, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/01/08/giffords-among-those-marking-one-year-since-shooting-cnn-com/
Palestinians, Israelis to meet in Jordan; U.S. urges both sides to seize opportunity
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet in Jordan on Tuesday alongside international mediators trying to revive their stalled peace talks, but neither side is raising hopes they can end more than a year of deadlock. Negotiations stalled in late 2010 after Israel refused to renew a partial freeze on Jewish settlement in the occupied West [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on January 3, 2012
http://evantrowbridge.com/2012/01/03/palestinians-israelis-to-meet-in-jordan-u-s-urges-both-sides-to-seize-opportunity/
BP says Halliburton ‘intentionally destroyed evidence’ after Gulf oil spill – CNN.com
(CNN) — BP is accusing Halliburton of having “intentionally destroyed evidence” related to the explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The accusation comes in court papers filed by BP Monday in federal court in New Orleans as part of a lawsuit [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on December 5, 2011
http://evantrowbridge.com/2011/12/05/bp-says-halliburton-intentionally-destroyed-evidence-after-gulf-oil-spill-cnn-com/
Zakaria: In defense of the Iraq drawdown – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs
By Fareed Zakaria, CNN Critics of the U.S. drawdown in Iraq claim that we are foregoing hard-won gains – years of blood, toil and tears – by getting out now. This is what Liz Cheney said on Fox the other day. I disagree. Let’s review the gains of the Iraq War: You have an Iraq [...]
Posted by Evan Trowbridge on December 15, 2011
http://evantrowbridge.com/2011/12/15/zakaria-in-defense-of-the-iraq-drawdown-global-public-square-cnn-com-blogs/