Officials in Sidi Bouzid imposed a curfew on Friday following unrest over the town's leading candidate being dropped from Sunday's ballot on suspicions of corruption. The moderate Islamist Ennahda party won a majority in the vote.
Eleven policemen and three others were hurt during riots in a Shiite-majority village, a Saudi state news agency reported Tuesday. Citing the interior ministry, the agency said the unrest was caused by "outlaws and rioters on motorbikes".
The Syrian regime's crackdown against protesters continues. Some estimates say over 3,000 people have been killed since the uprising began six months ago. And it is not just activists within Syria who are affected. Many exiled Syrian dissidents are now in Lebanon but, even there, say they are being threatened, abducted and arrested. Our correspondents in Beirut take a closer look.
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Jakob Kellenberger (pictured), met Sunday with Syria's foreign minister to discuss access to detainees and medical care for the wounded as activists reported eight more deaths in new clashes.
London police arrested some 60 people on Saturday during clashes with members of the far-right English Defence League, who staged a rally in the British capital despite a government ban on marches imposed after last month's violent riots.
In today's international papers, we look at who's profiting from the Arab spring, why the Notting Hill carnival is more important than ever this year, and if the media coverage of Hurricane Irene was a fuss about nothing.
More than 3,000 people have been arrested and 1,000 charged in connection with the four-day riots that rocked Britain last week. Rights groups have warned against excessive charges, after two men were jailed for inciting disorder online.
After days of rioting in major English cities, we look at how British bobbies are taking to the American 'supercop' Bill Bratton. Next, Germany remembers half a century of division by commemorating 50 years since construction began of the Berlin Wall. Finally, our reporter visits a village in Armenia populated entirely by women.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was heckled by teenagers Monday during a speech at a countryside youth club in which he vowed to reverse the "moral collapse" that he blamed for the country’s recent unrest.
FRENCH PAPERS, Mon. 15/08/11, The euthanasia debate is once again hot in the press after an emergency doctor was indicted for helping patience die. Libération argues in favor of making euthanasia legal saying it's more than a question of dignity, it’s a question of freedom. Meanwhile, le Parisien explores the increasing draw of the French country-side.
