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Iran: Ahmadinejad Alienates Key Protector

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may finally be losing patience with wayward president.

Muted Response to Iranian Subsidy Cuts

No protests as fuel and food prices rise at start of long-awaited subsidy reforms.

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Tense Time for Libyan Diaspora

Longtime Libyan exile in London worries about friends and family and recalls a recent “horrific” visit to her homeland.

Libyan Opposition Dismisses Civil War Fears

Leading figure in the movement rejects suggestions that tribal divisions could turn into open conflict.

Shia Clerics Oppose Baghdad Rally

Religious leaders join government in opposing central Baghdad demonstration.

Some of the thousands of Egyptian migrant workers who fled the Libyan violence. (Photo: Lina Atallah)

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Egyptians Migrants Fear Libyan Escalation

Thousands of Egyptian economic migrants caught up in the Libyan revolution are streaming back into Egypt, worried that the violence across the border is going to get worse.

Sulaimaniyah in Eye of Storm

Iraqi Kurdistan city seeing growing number of protests, with demonstrators demanding an end to corruption, nepotism and better services.

Isolation, Not Arrest for Iran Opposition Heads

Cutting Green Movement’s links with leadership may not halt its revival.

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"Delusional" Gaddafi

The Arab world has at once ridiculed the Libyan leader’s bizarre TV appearances and been appalled by the brutal suppression of his people.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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