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Washington, April 30: Even as it acknowledges India as the world's most populous democracy, the Economist magazine's Index of Democracy 2012 ranks India 38th among 165 nations with an overall score of 7.52.India also gets high scores for electoral process and ...

Cairo, Jun 2: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison by a court here. Judge Ahmed Refaat convicted him today on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to ...

Cairo, Feb 12: Syria today "categorically" rejected the decision by Arab foreign ministers to back the Syrian opposition and call for a joint UN-Arab peacekeeping mission, the Syrian ambassador to Cairo said. "The Syrian Arab Republic categorically rejects the decisions of...

Washington, May 20: US President Barack Obama on Thursday, May 19 warned Arab rulers that "strategies of repression and diversions" will not work anymore and they must hear the voices of their people."The events of the past six months show us ...

Beirut, Apr 9: A mass protest calling for sweeping changes in Syria's authoritarian regime turned bloody on Friday, Apr 9, with the government and protesters both claiming to have sustained heavy casualties as the country's three-week uprising entered a dangerous new ...

Algiers, Feb 4: In these days of revolts against oppressive regimes in the Arab World, Algeria has come up with a pre-emptive move to vanquish any possible uprising by promising to end a 19-year old state of emergency and provide more ...