Russian Hackers Attack Live Streaming Video Sites
After the attack on uStream, an online video company in the United States, the company's leaders launched a Russian-language version of the site.
View ArticleSyrian Activists Question U.N. Observer Mission After Deadly Attack on...
Syrian activists claimed that government forces moved tanks into a northern town on Wednesday, in clear violation of a ceasefire agreement, just after the departure of a team of United Nations observers.
View ArticleU.N. Observers Dodge Bullets and Mockery in Syria
The head of the U.N. military observer mission in Syria was forced to defend his team from the ridicule of protesters on Friday.
View ArticleLatest Updates on Electoral Turmoil in Egypt
From the Cairo bureau of The New York Times, The Lede is following the reaction in Egypt to twin rulings by the country's highest court on Thursday, which threw the country's post-revolutionary...
View ArticleEgyptian Activists Debate How Not to Vote
Discussions with activist bloggers in Cairo this week returned again and again to the question of how best not to vote in the coming presidential runoff election.
View ArticleSudan Deports Egyptian Journalist and Detains Bloggers as Protests Continue
Sudan deported an Egyptian journalist and briefly detained another prominent blogger on Tuesday, as the authorities attempt to stifle a protest movement.
View ArticleSyrian Video Activists Plan News Broadcasts to Offer an Alternative to State...
In an interview with The Lede in Cairo, the Syrian activist Rami Jarrah, a/k/a Alexander Page, described ambitious plans to expand his Activists News Association by starting an Internet radio station...
View ArticleProtesters Describe Torture by Syrian Security Forces
In a video report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, former detainees, one of them a 14-year-old boy, described the abuse they said they were subjected to by the Syrian security forces.
View ArticleAt Least Two Protesters Are Killed in Saudi Arabia
Two are killed in a protest in eastern Saudi Arabia after the arrest of a prominent Shiite cleric.
View ArticleVideo of Protests and Clashes in Saudi Arabia
Video posted online by Saudi activists late Tuesday appeared to offer a glimpse of protesters clashing with the security forces in Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province.
View ArticleWith Defiance, Laughter and a New Single, Russian Riot Grrrls Go to Jail
Despite being sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, three members of the Russian protest band Pussy Riot greeted the verdict with defiance. Then they released a new single.
View ArticleBahraini Activists Document Crackdown on Protest
Security forces again fired tear gas and arrested demonstrators in Bahrain's capital on Friday, as protesters renewed their calls for reform and the release of political prisoners.
View ArticleCairo’s Graffiti Revolutionaries Reclaim Wall
After the authorities in Cairo painted over a graffiti mural dedicated to the martyrs of the Egyptian revolution this week, the city's street artists struck back, beginning a new mural on the same wall.
View ArticleImages of Clashes at Anti-Austerity Protests in Europe
Anti-austerity protesters clashed with police officers in the Greek and Spanish capitals.
View ArticleSaudi Forces Kill Two in Manhunt in Eastern Province
A man wanted by the government, and a youth with him, were shot and killed when security forces raided a house in the country's restive eastern region of Qatif.
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