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  • An Egyptian woman casts her ballot in the country's presidential election on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. The ballot, in Arabic, reads, "the Arab Republic of Egypt polling station for the presidency." (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

    A nation-by-nation look at Arab Spring's progress

    On Wednesday, Egypt began its first free presidential election since it came under dictatorship 60 years ago. The winner will succeed Hosni Mubarak, one of four rulers toppled in the uprisings that began 18 months ago across the Middle East and became known as the Arab Spring. But replacing dictatorships with democracy is proving much harder.

  • World Briefs: U.N. says radiation doses below norms

    A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but most of the nation did not.

  • Lebanese anti-Syrian regime critic Shadi Mawlawi (center), who was accused of belonging to a terrorist group, is carried May 22, 2012, on his friends' shoulders in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, as they celebrate his release from jail. (Associated Press)

    Bomb kills 5 in Syrian capital

    A bomb that apparently struck a restaurant in the Syrian capital killed at least five people, the state-run news agency said Tuesday, as activists reported intense clashes between army defectors and soldiers in the restive north.

  • Senate panel votes to cut aid for Egypt and Pakistan

    In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel approved Tuesday a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes President Obama's request for assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens further reductions if it fails to open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

  • This image made from amateur video released by Shaam News Network and accessed May 22, 2012, purports to show U.N. observers being welcomed in Idlib, Syria. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network via AP video)

    Hezbollah appeals for calm after Syria kidnapping

    The leader of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah appealed for calm Tuesday after people blocked roads and burned tires in Beirut to protest the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiites in neighboring Syria.

  • A Lebanese Shiite Muslim blocks the street in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday to protest against the kidnapping of 12 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria's northern province of Aleppo by Syrian rebels. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, has appealed for calm. (Associated Press)

    Lebanese Shiites kidnapped in Syria

    Syrian rebels kidnapped 12 Lebanese Shiites in northern Syria on Tuesday, fueling fears that Lebanon is getting drawn into the chaos next door, security officials said.

  • Masked Sunni gunmen hold their weapons May 21, 2012, as they attend the funeral procession of anti-Syrian regime Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Wahid, who was shot at a Lebanese army checkpoint, at his hometown village of Beireh, Lebanon. (Associated Press)

    Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon

    Syria's war barreled over the border with an angry, raucous funeral Monday for an anti-Syrian cleric whose killing set off a night of deadly street battles in Beirut and raised fears that Lebanon is getting drawn into the chaos afflicting its neighbor.

  • Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration in the Zabadani neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

    Bomb explodes near top U.N. officials in Syria

    A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday. The blast blew off the front of a parked vehicle but caused no casualties.

  • World Briefs: Israelis mark 45 years since E. Jerusalem's seizure

    Israeli ministers held a special Cabinet meeting at Ammunition Hill on Sunday to celebrate Jerusalem Day, when the Jewish state captured the Arab eastern sector 45 years ago during the Six-Day War.

  • French President Francois Hollande, left, listens as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the start of the first working session of the G-8 Summit at Camp David, Md., Saturday, May 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)

    G-8 leaders hope Greece remains in eurozone

    President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain in the Eurozone, anxious to keep its economic troubles from spreading around the world. The leaders said all of the nations have an interest in the success of efforts to strengthen the eurozone and help Europe's economy grow.

  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at Damascus University in Damascus, Syria, on June 20, 2011. (Associated Press/SANA)

    Largest protests yet in Syrian city of Aleppo

    Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse thousands rallying Friday in the northern city of Aleppo, which activists said saw the largest turnout since the start of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011.

  • Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a speech Tuesday at Damascus University, said he would not step down and insisted that he still has his people's support despite a 10-month-old uprising against him. (SANA via Associated Press)

    Syrian opposition head offers to resign

    Syria's main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusations that the movement is becoming as autocratic as the regime it wants to drive out.

  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

    Syrian opposition group fractured as leader pledges to resign

    Syria's main opposition group is in disarray, and its leader Thursday offered to step down, nearly 15 months after the start of an uprising aimed at toppling President Bashar Assad's regime.

  • **FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

    Assad says mercenaries are behind Syria unrest

    In his first interview since December, Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted Tuesday his regime is fighting back against foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow him, not innocent Syrians aspiring for democracy in a yearlong uprising.

  • ** FILE ** Syrian soldiers are seen through the damaged window of a military truck that was hit by a roadside bomb in Daraa, Syria, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The blast occurred just seconds after a team of U.N. observers passed by. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

    U.N. team evacuated from tense Syrian town

    A team of international observers was evacuated Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a U.N. spokesman said.

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