Egypt-inspired protests held throughout Middle East
Top news: Activists throughout the Middle East sought to capitalize on Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in Egypt by staging anti-government rallies. More than 1,000 people came out for the fourth straight day of protests in Yemen. They were met by a counterdemonstration of supports of president Ali Abdullah Saleh and police armed with sticks and daggers.
Youth protesters clashed with police in Bahrain. Members of the country's Shiite majority, who complain of discrimination by the Sunni-dominated government, have demonstrated throughout this year. The government recently announced a plan to pay every Bahraini family $2,700 in order to avoid the kind of protests seen elsewhere in the region.
Protesters blocked the streets of Algiers on Saturday and more than 100 activists were arrested. The country's emergency law, imposed in 1992 during the country's civil war, is due to be lifted soon.
Iran has clamped down hard, placing opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi under arrest ahead of a planned rally in solidarity with Egypt.
Egypt: The country's new military rulers have disolved parliament and suspended the constitution, promising new elections in as little as six months.
The army has delivered an ultimatum to the last remaining protesters on Tahrir Square, threatening them with arrest if they do not leave.
Bank, transportation, and tourism workers went on strike over pay.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says he is not concerned that Mubarak's departure will hurt Egypt-Israel relations.
| Europe - An Italian judge is set to announce whether Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will face an immediate trial.
- An Amsterdam court said it consider dismissing the hate crimes charges against anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.
- Russia has allowed a British journalist it expelled last week to return.
Asia - A suicide bombing killed two at an upscale Kabul hotel complex.
- Indonesia's best-known radical cleric went on trial for terrorism.
- Fourth-quarter GDP data confirmed that Japan has fallen behind China to become the world's third largest economy.
Middle East Americas Africa - NATO seized a suspected pirate mothership off the coast of Somalia.
- 12 people were killed in a stampede at a Goodluck Jonathan campaign rally in Nigeria.
- Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized winner of the the Ivory Coast presidential election, has threatened to extend a ban on cocoa exports in incumbent Laurent Gbagbo does not resign.
-By Joshua Keating |  |
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