The uprisings sweeping the Arab world haven’t only toppled dictatorships. Gone, too, are the old stereotypes of Arab women as passive, voiceless victims.
Silent No More: The Women of the Arab Revolutions
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Why Iran Is Targeting Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi
When Iranian Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work as a lawyer and human-rights activist, the regime in Tehran faced a dilemma.
Thousands protest abortion in Spain
Thousands flocked to Spain’s capital Saturday to protest the Socialist government’s move to make it easier to get an abortion. The anti-abortion protest, themed “each life is important,” began at 5 p.m
Agencies working to aid Samoans hit by quake, tsunami
Five days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami slammed into the Samoan Islands, burying parts of the islands under a sea of mud and debris, U.S.
Sister of American Lockerbie victim visits Gadhafi
Lisa Gibson — who lost her brother in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing — sat down the other day with the man many blame for the notorious attack: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. “I welcomed him to America,” Gibson told CNN
Ex-Manson follower Susan Atkins dies
Susan Denise Atkins, a former member of the Manson family who killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a two-day killing spree in 1969, has died, according to a California corrections spokesman. She was 61.
Jaycee Dugard kidnap suspect used bondage, captivity in past
Fifteen years before the girl was held captive in the shed, there was the woman in the warehouse — and at least one other woman who escaped capture.
Owner sentenced in fatal club fire; band absolved
Argentina’s Court of Justice on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a club owner to 20 years in prison for a deadly club fire that killed 194 people but absolved the band that had played that night of responsibility for the tragedy. The incident happened in December 2004, when a fire broke out in the overcrowded Republica Cromanon venue in Buenos Aires.
Police may have found Jakarta bomber’s laptop
Indonesian police have recovered a laptop that they believe belonged to one of the bombers of Friday’s twin hotel attacks in Jakarta, the country’s official news agency said Sunday. The laptop contained information and codes that the attackers may have used to communicate with each other, the state-run Antara News Agency said.
Indonesian hotel attacks spark widespread condemnation
U.S. President Barack Obama and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband both said they "strongly condemn" Friday’s deadly hotel attacks in Jakarta, Indonesia