Latest update: 21/12/2011

- Fatah - Gaza Strip - Hamas - Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Khaled Meshaal - Mahmoud Abbas

The victims of the Fatah Hamas divide

Almost six months after the latest unity agreement between rival Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, it has yet to be implemented. No unity transitional government has been formed, no elections organized, security services have not been reorganized or merged in Gaza or the West Bank. And political prisoners have yet to be released on both sides. In the meantime it is ordinary Palestinians who pay a heavy price. Our correspondent, Gallagher Fenwick, reports from the Gaza Strip.

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23/05/2012 - CANADA

Students in Quebec march against tuition fee hike

Student protests in the Canadian province of Quebec are now into their fourth month. Hundreds were arrested at marches to mark 100 days since the protests began. Students are demonstrating against an 80% rise in tuition fees in Quebec, the Canadian province that has until now enjoyed the country's lowest rates for higher education.

23/05/2012 - EGYPT

Egyptians head to the polls

Egyptians go to the polls in the country's first truly contested presidential election on Wednesday. With an array of candidates to choose from, voters will decide who's the best man to lead them through the last phase of the country's troubled democratic transition that began with Egypt's revolution in January last year. Cairo correspondents Kathryn Stapley and Sonia Dridi talked to some of the activists whose protests in Tahrir Square changed the course of Egypt's history.

22/05/2012 - EGYPT

A troubling time for Egypt's Coptic Christians

Egyptians go to the polls tomorrow to vote for a new president for the first time since Hosni Mubarak was ousted during the revolution last year. Two of the front-runners in the presidential race with a realistic chance of winning are devout Islamists, which is troubling for Egypt's Coptic Christians. They are Egypt's largest religious minority and many of them don't think any of the candidates are capable of protecting them from the religious violence that has been steadily increasing.

22/05/2012 - WEST BANK

'The Battle of the Empty Stomachs'

Palestinians nicknamed it "the battle of the empty stomachs". For weeks, 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails refused food and drink in what became the longest ever mass hunger strike. Israel finally capitulated and a deal was reached, allowing those in isolation back onto the general wards, and visas for those family members wishing to visit from Gaza. In exchange, prisoners agreed not to carry out "security activities" such as recruiting for terrorist missions.

21/05/2012 - SERBIA

Serbia's new president - nationalist or not?

Serbia has elected a new president - and it's not the one that most people were expecting. Tomislav Nikolic has unseated Boris Tadic, the man in power since 2004. Observers are worried about the new head of state, who used to be part of the ultra-nationalist Radical Party. He once said he would prefer to be allied with Russia than join the EU, but he has since toned down the rhetoric, saying he will take Serbia to Europe after all.

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syria

by Anonyme - 21/12/2011 - 15:51

assad and his leaders whom want to be dicators, and they will not go out of they leadership as they know the wrong doing is a fatal blow to them and the killing they are doing is noting to them as they assad is a big crimnal in his country and by using the miltary force which is stoping the poor public if the arab leauge force sanction and support the opposition parties and give the same amount of arms to defend them selfs then i am sure the country will have peace and throw this dicators out wealth ok they know that if they go out of the leadership then they have lost all they wealth and respect and power i think the arab and the west should find a solution to take assad out by force that is only way the country will have peace .

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indian corrpution

by Anonyme - 21/12/2011 - 15:44

the leaders of india a more wealthy and feed good with they fat belly with the state money whilst the poor are getting no were and realty is this leaders dont care a dam of what they do all they know they are in a seat where corution will never go out unless there go out by force and there will not be worring the future of state only them selfs and there families anything in india to get by you have to pay you way this is example set by the leaders

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I am new in this forum

by Anonyme - 20/12/2011 - 20:18

Hello :) Good day for all - i am signing

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