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President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East are filled with stories about whether or not this is Assad's "Benghazi moment" – these reports are almost invariably written from Washington or London or Paris – but few in the region understand how we Westerners can get it so wrong.
The police say "driver error" was to blame for that horrible crash near Hampstead this week that killed a vanload of agricultural migrant workers from Peru.
What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment.
Many Egyptians are worried about what the future holds for their country. The revolution is only one year old and very fragile. A country of more than 80 million people has high expectations. But groups from within the country and others, from near and afar, are working hard to derail the revolution at best or halt it all together.
Dr. Mads Gilbert combines his profession as a physician with political advocacy. He brought his advocacy hat to the University of Ottawa Medical School on January 31, telling the audience about how things were in Gaza when he was working there.
Israel has come first again in The Bonn International Center for Conversion's (BICC) list of the world's most militarization nations. Iran is ranked 32nd on the Global Militarization Index (GMI) list, while the U.S. is 39th. Statistics are for 2010, the last year they are available.
There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC's Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation's generally excellent World Service radio. Davies was in Tunisia to find out how its remaining 2,000 Jews (down from 300,000 once upon a time) were responding to a call from an Israeli government minister for them to move to Israel.
Two democratic elections
Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism - and rarely more so than in the case of Iran.
Regarding the verdict of Mohammad Shafia, many stories in Canadian newspapers have printed that this has, "captivated Canadians from coast to coast, and touched off post-911 criticism of Muslim culture."
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