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  • ISIS Hostages
    Islamic State Gives Two Japanese Hostages 72 Hours to Live

    Islamic State militants threatened to kill two Japanese hostages just days after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used a Middle East trip to pledge $200 million in non-military aid to nations confronted by the al-Qaeda breakaway group.

  • Tunisia
    Opinion: Tunisia still on the brink

    Nothing should take away the so far singular accomplishment of the Tunisian revolution - the first youth-led movement to topple a dictator in the Arab world in memory, and so far the only one to shepherd a peaceful transition to a different political system. But as the election results demonstrate, if progressive forces cannot develop a narrative that both helps Tunisians understand how much deeper the system they need to replace is, and gives them a strategy and a sense of hope that it can be changed, the victory of January 14, 2011, will remain incomplete, and likely tragically so. Mark LeVine is a professor of Middle Eastern History at University of California, Irvine, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lund University. His new book is One Land, Two States: Israel and Palestine as Parallel States, co-edited with Ambassador Mathias Mossberg. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. Source: Al Jazeera TOPICS IN THIS ARTICLE People Ben Ali Yoav Hattab Moncef Marzouki Beatrice Hibou Mark LeVine Mubarak Mathias Mossberg Charles Tilly Leila Trabelsi Country Tunisia United States Syria Egypt Morocco Israel Iraq Palestinian Territories City Tunis Paris Organisation World Bank Force of Obedience Interior Ministry University of California, Irvine Lund University Nida Tounis Party FEATURED ON AL JAZEERA Q&A: German journalist on surviving ISIL Al Jazeera spoke to Jurgen Todenhofer who embedded with ISIL fighters - and lived to tell about it. Thieves fry Kenya's power grid for fast food Vandals smash electrical transformers to steal viscous fluid that's later sold as cooking oil for roadside stalls. After jail, Pussy Riot focuses on prisons Russian feminist rockers fight system holding 700,000 - the world's largest per capita prison population after the US. Mexicans fight back over their missing Baja California - with its own grim history of disappeared people - finds a voice in the fight against violence. HIDE COMMENTS Content on this website is for general information purposes only. Your comments are provided by your own free will and you take sole responsibility for any direct or indirect liability. You hereby provide us with an irrevocable, unlimited, and global license for no consideration to use, reuse, delete or publish comments, in accordance with Community Rules & Guidelines and Terms and Conditions. RELATED 'Bajbouj': Old leader, new Tunisia Tunisia's next president will hail from the urban bourgeoisie and he'll have a modernist outlook. ( 21-Nov-2014 ) Why Tunisia succeeded where Egypt failed Tunisia caught between fear and stability WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS What the Quran says about the mighty pen LARBI SADIKI Charlie Hebdo: 'Us or them' RACHEL SHABI After Charlie Hebdo attack, the real war DAOUD KUTTAB Charlie Hebdo and western liberalism ABDULLAH AL-ARIAN Muslims in the news only when they're behind the gun KHALED A BEYDOUN When cartoons upset the 'wrong people' KHALID ALBAIH OPINION We are breaking promises to our children GORDON BROWN An unlikely celebration of North Africa's ethnic diversity HISHAM AIDI Africa's oil shock ZAINAB USMAN Will Turkey pass the Charlie test? CENGIZ AKTAR The exiled generation IASON ATHANASIADIS The freedom to take offence HATEM BAZIAN The hapless, harmless Palestinian leader? SHARIF NASHASHIBI Would Prophet Muhammad say 'Je Suis Charlie'? KHALED DIAB Why satire is holy to the French REMI PIET Tunisia still on the brink MARK LEVINE links from www.aljazeera.com TIL, in the mid 1800s, camels were brought to Australia as they were well suited for the climate. Today, due to some camels being released, their population is so overgrown that Australia now employs hunters to cull their numbers from helicopters. 74 points | 13 comments Thieves fry Kenya's power grid for fast food 50 points | 25 comments German newspaper suffers arson attack after reprinting Charlie Hebdo cartoons(News) 31 points | 4 comments FEATURED After jail, Pussy Riot focuses on prisons Russian feminist rockers fight system holding 700,000 - the world's largest per capita prison population after the US.

  • Air Transport
    Revealed: The most punctual airlines and airports in the world

    Saudi Arabian Airlines has been deemed the most punctual airline in the Middle East and the seventh best worldwide, according to the results of a new global report.

  • Saudi Youth
    20 students arrested for stunt driving

    Undercover police officers have arrested more than 20 students at intermediate and secondary schools in North Obhur in Jeddah for performing dangerous stunts on the streets close to their schools, a traffic official told Arab News on Wednesday.

  • Luxury Car Sales
    Middle East Sales Drive Rolls-Royce’s Record Year

    The Middle East was Rolls-Royce’s strongest market by sales after North America in 2014, a result that Rolls –Royce CEO Torsten described as previously “unimaginable” in an interview with Gulf Business. “The Middle East has been a great success for us,” he said. “Two years ago, if you said that the Middle East would be our second biggest market in 2014, nobody would have believed you.”

  • Saudi Government
    Eyes on Saudi Arabian succession after King Abdullah bin Abdul aziz al Saud hospitalized

    The Saudi stock market fell after King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was hospitalized Wednesday, but any succession for the throne would likely be smooth for the country.

  • Population Control
    Saudi Arabia mulls birth control policy

    Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is considering implementing a population control policy following a doubling of the population in just 15 years.

  • U.S. Ground Forces in Iraq
    Task force denies reports U.S. engaged in ground combat with Islamic State

    Contrary to reports coming out of Iraq, U.S. troops have not engaged in ground combat with the Sunni insurgent group Islamic State, according to the task force in charge of running daily operations in the U.S. and coalition mission known as Operation Inherent Resolve.

  • Oil
    Saudi Arabia’s Oil Exports Drop Was Sign of Weaker Demand

    Saudi Arabia shipped 10 percent less oil overseas in October than it did a year earlier, signaling demand was falling even before OPEC decided a month later to hold production unchanged with prices plunging.

  • Global Conflict
    Center for Preventive Action: Preventive Priorities Survey 2015

    This fall, CFR's Center for Preventive Action (CPA) solicited suggestions from the general public on potential conflicts that could erupt or escalate next year. CPA narrowed down the nearly one thousand suggestions to the top thirty, and invited more than 2,200 government officials, academics, and foreign policy experts to rank them by their potential effects on U.S. interests and likelihood of occurring in 2015. CPA then categorized the scenarios into three tiers, in order of priority for U.S. leaders.