Tag: Arab spring

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:52 UTC

  Nobel Peace Prize to only surviving member of the 'Arab spring”

  

  The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet for its efforts to bring democracy to the country, where the political upheaval in 2011 sparked pro-democracy movements throughout the Arab world.

• Saturday, October 19th 2013 - 16:06 UTC

  Saudi Arabia furious with the US, is not taking seat on UN Security Council

  

  Saudi Arabia, in a display of anger at the failure of the international community to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues, said it would not take up its seat on the United Nations Security Council.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 03:07 UTC

  US government sales soared to 66.3bn dollars in 2011; Saudis main buyers

  

  US government sale of weapons soared by over three times in just one year - from 21.4 billion dollars in 2010 to 66.3 billion in 2011, the largest for a single year in the history of the US arms export program, according to a report by the US Congress Research Service.

• Tuesday, March 6th 2012 - 17:27 UTC

  Brazil’s reviewing its foreign policy but South America remains the “anchor”

  

  Brazil will keep its foreign policy ‘anchor’ in South America but will review the international because of the latest global changes such as the European Union crisis and the Arab spring.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  Latam “progressive” countries openly supported tyrants despised by ”Arab Spring”

  

  The so called ‘progressive’ Latin American governments not only did they not support the revolution wave later known as the “Arab Spring” but openly and repeatedly backed the regimes against which the peoples of those countries rebelled.

• Friday, October 7th 2011 - 17:50 UTC

  Nobel Peace Prize honours indomitable women and the “Arab Spring”

  

  Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize today to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression - a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.

• Thursday, May 26th 2011 - 23:53 UTC

  G8 promises aid in support of ‘Arab spring’ and democratic consolidation

  

  The Group of Eight leaders meeting in France are expected to approve on Friday billions of dollars in aid in support of the ‘Arab spring’ with a program designed to foster change sweeping North Africa and the Middle East.