Egypt's new military leadership dissolved the parliament, suspended the constitution and said elections for a civilian government would be held in about six months. The military also started to restore normal conditions to central Cairo and Tahrir Square.
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Japan's economy contracted in the fourth quarter of 2010, ceding its spot as the world's second-largest economy to China.
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Political instability in Tunisia has unleashed a wave of migrants toward Italian shores, igniting a crisis that has exposed the pitfalls of Italy's reliance on North African regimes to act as gatekeepers.
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Many thousands of women protested across Italy, calling on Silvio Berlusconi to resign over a sex scandal that has deepened the prime minister's troubles with the law and galvanized a movement calling for greater rights for women.
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The U.K. and Turkey are negotiating a military pact that would see the two European powers take part in joint exercises and share expertise, a person familiar with the matter said.
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The reign of Egypt's Hosni Mubaral collapsed on the anniversary of the Iranian revolution. It's an irony not lost to Iranians obsessively following the uprising in Egypt and drawing parallels to two popular uprisings in their own nation—the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the 2009 pro-democracy protests.
The U.S. canceled talks involving Pakistan due to a diplomatic row over the detention of an American employed by the U.S. government who shot dead two armed men.
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Yemeni protesters and government supporters clashed Sunday, the latest in a series of scuffles in the capital, even as opposition parties in the country said they would enter into dialogue with the long-time president over political concessions he made last week.
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The political turmoil in Egypt is a reminder of the substantial risk investors take when they commit to emerging and frontier markets.
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Chinese authorities are investigating the railways minister for "serious infractions," state media said, heralding the downfall of a powerful official who presided over the building of the world's largest high-speed rail network.
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A panicked crowd at a political rally in southern Nigeria trampled at least 11 people to death and injured dozens more as President Goodluck Jonathan gave a speech.
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Iraqi officials say the death toll in a suicide bombing on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims has risen to 36.
Ahmed Ounaies's resignation comes just weeks after that of his predecessor and less than a month after the formation of a transitional government, which followed the Jan. 14 ouster of the former president.
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Moscow allowed a British journalist who had been denied entry a week earlier to return over the weekend, after the incident sparked intervention by U.K. officials and charges the Kremlin was constraining media freedom.
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Following an emotional debate, Swiss voters firmly rejected a referendum that would have forced soldiers to end the practice of keeping army-issue firearms at home and tightened restrictions over civilian gun ownership.
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Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub in Guadalajara, Mexico, early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37.
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Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the Algerian capital Algiers on Saturday, defying a ban on demonstrations and calling for political reform in the North African country.
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Protesters and government supporters clashed in Yemen and Algerian police braced for planned demonstrations as leaders across the Mideast scrambled in the aftermath of the Egyptian president's resignation.
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An antiterrorism court judge issued an arrest warrant for former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, state-run television reported.
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The Palestinian leadership said it will hold presidential and parliamentary elections by September, an apparent response to mass protests in Egypt and other Arab countries against undemocratic regimes.
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Ross Dunkley was imprisoned in Yangon's main prison, Insein, on charges of violating a section of the immigration law on overstaying a visa.
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Taliban fighters set off a car bomb and tried to storm the police headquarters in Kandahar, sparking a gun battle in the center of southern Afghanistan's main city.
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Deutsche Bundesbank President Axel Weber, until recently the most likely man to take over the European Central Bank from Jean-Claude Trichet, is to step down from his duties April 30, the German government said.
The mystery surrounding a U.S. government contractor who shot dead two armed men in Pakistan last month deepened on Friday when police publicly questioned the claim that he acted in self-defense and confirmed they plan to formally charge him with murder.
The party expected to take power in Ireland's elections this month is maneuvering to renegotiate its terms, but talks with its primary funder, the European Union, will be delicate.
The world's economic leaders are expected to agree next week on the need for a new system to oversee international capital flows. But a decision on what exactly the guidelines should be, and how to enforce them, could prove a much thornier issue.
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A magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook Chile's central-southern region, scaring residents, although President Sebastian Pinera said the quake didn't cause any major damages or deaths.
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Photos of a scuffle between two members of Venezuela's national assembly—and the resulting scrum as others played peacemakers—made the rounds on morning shows and news websites Friday.
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A U.K. court has adjourned the extradition hearing of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange until Feb. 24. Judge Howard Riddle told Mr. Assange he would "consider the matter," and asked Mr. Assange to return that day.
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A new, smaller group of Cabinet ministers took an oath of office in Pakistan, where the ruling party recently agreed to shrink the prime minister's circle of advisers to save money.
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Japan's foreign minister made little apparent progress on a trip to Moscow amid an escalating tit-for-tat between Moscow and Tokyo over Pacific islands sezed by Russia at the end of World War II.
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Two days of fighting in Southern Sudan between the region's army and a rebel faction killed 105 people.
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Colombia's largest rebel force released two more hostages, part of their pledge to free five of their captives, in a move that has been welcomed by the government even as it blasted the guerrillas for continuing to carry out kidnappings.
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A Turkish government inquiry into Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American says Israeli soldiers shot five victims from close range.
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Switzerland is in the midst of an emotional debate over a proposal to limit weapons in a country that cherishes its right to bear arms, echoing the U.S. reflection on the issue in the aftermath of a mass shooting in Arizona last month.
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Greece's international lenders of last resort said the country has made enough progress to receive an additional $20.4 billion aid tranche but needs to accelerate economic changes and commit large-scale privatizations.
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Vietnam's central bank devalued its currency Friday by 8.5% in its third devaluation in a year as the Southeast Asian country battles high inflation and a gaping trade deficit.
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Celebrations swept Cairo following the news of President Mubarak's exit after 18 days of demonstrations. Soldiers wept and protesters recalled turning points.
Social media, most notably Facebook and Twitter, have featured prominently in recent years as tools of the opposition in insurrections against entrenched regimes.
Mubarak's resignation ends a reign of nearly three decades atop the Arab world's most populous country and could come to stand as the high-water mark in the wave of Arab discontent now rolling across the Middle East.
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The question facing the Egyptian military is whether it can carry the country to a functioning democratic political system.
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The Iranian state commemorated the 32nd anniversary of its Islamic Revolution on Friday with victory parades, as it tried to squelch counter demonstrations planned across the country for Monday.
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Egyptian President Mubarak's fall from power deprives Israel of its only reliable ally in the Middle East and has crystallized a debate among top Israeli officials over the government's reluctance to pursue peace with its adversaries.
Mubarak's resignation rattled regional allies and foes alike, threatening a decadeslong balance of power in the Mideast.
The Obama administration, seeking to help stabilize Egypt, is looking at the 1998 overthrow of Indonesian dictator Suharto as a model for a democratic transition in a Muslim-majority country.
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In Syria, Google reported a spike in viewers flocking to social media sites after Damascus unexpectedly lifted its ban Tuesday on certain sites.
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This city is home to some five million people, and, in the moments that followed Friday evening's news that Hosni Mubarak would step down, nearly all of them seemed to pour into the streets in celebration.
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The Swiss government froze assets possibly belonging to departed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and his entourage. It was unclear how much money is involved.
Chinese regulators issued a rare denial of a local media report that the country could lose up to $450 billion on its investment in securities issued by U.S. housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The Indian Air Force search for 126 fighter planes is coming to a head, and the six companies pushing their aircraft are beginning to pull out all the stops to try and nose their way ahead in the race.
It is almost certain Japan will have been overtaken by China as the world's second-largest economy when it reports its fourth quarter GDP on Monday. That is unless the fat lady sings 27%.
The hot gossip in South Korea is that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il may have another son.
As we reported on Thursday, most Members of the European Parliament would prefer to scrap their expensive second home in Strasbourg. On Friday, France fought back, reminding parliamentarians that, in this case, the EU is a continent ruled by laws, not men.
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See the action in Egypt Friday through the lenses of The Wall Street Journal's photographers.
Egypt's president succumbed to protestors' demands and resigned, the NYSE was near a deal to be acquired by Germany's Deutsche Börse, and federal officials absolved Toyota's electronics in the sudden acceleration of its vehicles.
Ireland's general election at the end of this month ought to give a flavor of how austerity could start to radicalize peripheral European politics. Radicalized with an anti-German bent, that is.
A cold snap sweeps over most parts of China, carrying rain and snow and ending a 108-day drought, the worst winter drought to hit China's capital in 60 years.
The comments attributed to Deutsche Bundesbank President Axel Weber Wednesday are infuriatingly vague but are the strongest hint yet that he will not be the next president of the European Central Bank.