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ACROSS THE WIRE
May 16, 2012
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With its first post-Mubarak presidential election just days away, Egypt’s political turmoil has been the focus of global headlines for well over a year. Since the popular uprising in January 2011, instability and a lack of security have plagued the country’s heritage sites, not only in terms of tourism, but looting as well.
read more Tags: Africa, Egypt, Great Pyramids, Looting, Middle East, Political Instability
Across the Wire
February 03, 2012
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For the millions of Egyptians whose incomes depend on tourist money, a bleak economic outlook grew even bleaker this week after a soccer riot in Port Said left as many as 74 dead. Considered the worst outbreak of violence since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown a year ago, the clashes were followed a day later by protests that resulted in injuries to nearly 400 people.
read more Tags: Africa, Egypt, Middle East, Political Instability, War and Conflict
Across the Wire
January 25, 2012
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Nearly two decades after a brutal war that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, displaced two million from their homes, and destroyed museums and libraries, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s top cultural institutions are again in imminent danger — this time because of political conflict and neglect.
read more Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Europe, Political Instability, Serbia, War and Conflict
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