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Syria: Bashar al-Assad, once seen as a reformer

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As the opposition calls for new protests in Syria, we ask whether President Bashar al-Assad is really a reformer. In Kuwait, the stateless Bidoons take the streets to demand more rights. Finally, Israel indicts a Palestinian engineer for masterminding Hamas' rocket program - we bring you the details of the mysterious case.

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