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United Nations Security Council diplomats vote on a resolution during a meeting on Libya at U.N. headquarters in New York, Feb 26 2011
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No Decision Yet from UN Security Council on Libya No-Fly Zone

Russia pushed for a separate cease-fire resolution

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Zahi Hawass, head of the Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, pictured above, resigned over what he considered a lack of security at the country's historic sites (file photo)

Egypt's 'Indiana Jones'

'I quit.'

Libyan Boy Scouts, just a few of around 3,500 in the town of Benghazi, are organized and able, 7 March 2011

Helping Others

Benghazi Boy Scouts aid Libyans in need

Protesters, with the phrase "no for sectarianism" written on their foreheads and Lebanese flags painted on their faces, shout slogans during a demonstration against Lebanon's sectarian political system and alleged corruption, near the Justice Palace in Be

Women's Rights in Mideast

Benefit from revolution?

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (file)

Shrewd or Insane?

Gadhafi’s behavior during Libyan crisis

Turks rally at the mausoleum of secular Turkey's founder Kemal Ataturk in Ankara (file photo)

Turkey

Role model for Middle East?

A student-run Facebook page shows an image depicting the Tunisian national flag smeared in red, representing blood, as seen on a computer screen in Paris, January 11, 2011

New Battleground

Social media’s role in political conflicts

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi (file photo)

Military Action in Libya

Viable option?

Egyptian Wael Ghonim, center, a 30-year-old Google Inc. marketing manager who was a key organizer of the online campaign that sparked the first protest on Jan. 25, talks to the crowd in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, February 08, 2011

Social Media Change

What's next in Middle East?

Women activists carry a mock coffin of Ayse Pasali, who was shot to death by her ex-husband, during a demonstration, planned as an alternative to Valentine's Day, in central Istanbul, February 14, 2011

Women’s Rights

Turkey’s skyrocketing murder rate

   

 

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