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Harsh crackdown on Shia worshippers in Bahrain
Sunni-Shia hostility in the Muslim world is likely to deepen because of the demolition of Shia holy places in Bahrain.
Anzac forces in Timor for a long time to come
A foreign security presence may need to remain in East Timor and the Solomons for longer than expected.
Tyrants' crude tools of power fail as era of classic security state ends
Oil states are, by their nature, undemocratic.The despots who have ruled the Arab world for half a century are not giving up without a fight.
Irfan Yusuf: Witch-hunt has no place in civilised democracy
Sydney lawyer and author of Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-facist writes that republican-steered terrorism hearings entirely off the mark.
Belarus: Europe's last dictator mocks group's bid to prosecute him
Lukashenko blasts 'cheap trick' but opponents act over his human rights abuses
Nervous Saudis take hard line on 'day of rage'
Saudi Arabia announced it would ban all protests and marches.
Libyan city falls to anti-goverment forces - reports
Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, has fallen to anti-government forces after a crack army unit defected to the opposition and clashes spread to the capital, Tripoli, residents and news reports say.
Gaddafi's son warns of civil war
The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has appeared on that country's state-owned television to make a statement denouncing the current civil unrest.
Abolish Bahrain's monarchy, chant Shia Muslims
Bahrain's Shia Muslims ran in their tens of thousands back into Pearl Square in the centre of Manama.
Power of brutality and its limits
Lessons from an extraordinary uprising - for protesters and police alike.
Egyptian military calls for end to strikes, protests
The Egyptian military has reinforced its efforts to try to return the country to normal.