Revolution

Nokia’s incredible revolution: From Snake to the most advanced G6 era

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Nokia’s new logo. 6th generation in your mobile phone.
Flying car from the Chinese company Xpeng.

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An illustration depicting the Mossad emblem (L) and the Iranian flag (R).

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Tunisians stage sit-ins at vital industrial sites, protest ailing economy

Government’s failure to implement reforms promised after Jasmine Revolution behind the unrest, experts say.

Protests in Tunisia

Which non-violent revolutions will succeed?

But all the non-violent uprisings of the 2010-2011 Arab Spring, except Tunisia’s ended up being crushed by military coups or civil wars

YOUR REAL objective, as a dictator, should be to trick the protesters into using violence themselves. Protesters demonstrate near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem earlier this month.

Belarus will reciprocate if sanctions imposed, Lukashenko says

EU ministers are currently considering travel bans and asset freezes on up to 20 people responsible for a crackdown on demonstrators.

A person waving a historical white-red-white flag of Belarus flashes a victory sign as people take part in a rally to protest against presidential election results, at the Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, August 26, 2020

Could Belarus turn out to be another win for nonviolence?

Events in Belarus could go quite smoothly if Lukashenko accepts that exile is his best remaining option.

Demonstrators protest against the presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, August 2020

West African mediators arrive in Mali seeking reversal of coup

The presidents of Ivory Coast and Guinea are among those pushing for a tough response.

Supporters of Imam Mahmoud Dicko and other opposition political parties protest after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keit rejected concessions, aimed at resolving a months-long political stand-off, in Bamako, Mali July 10, 2020

'Revolutionary' lyrics censored from patriotic song in Lebanon

A choir singing "Ya Beirut" replaced the lyrics "revolution is born from the womb of sorrows" with "la la la la la."

Lebanese riot police walk near burning fire during a protest against the fall in pound currency and mounting economic hardship, in Beirut, Lebanon

Leadership lacking in Iran

The mullahs are worthless. They live in the Middle Ages. They murder, rape, terrorize, torture and eliminate anyone who stands in their way.

People stop their cars in a highway to show their protest for increased gas price in Tehran, Iran November 16, 2019

The ‘authority disease’ in the Middle East

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, running for a fifth term as Algeria’s president, promises reforms if he wins.

Algeria’s wheelchair-bound President Abdelaziz Bouteflika casts his ballot during the presidential election in Algiers, April 17

Has the Arab Spring arrived in Algeria?

Thousands are protesting what they call a "mafia" regime.

Students take part in a protest to denounce an offer by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run in elections next month but not to serve a full term if re-elected, in Algiers, Algeria March 5, 2019.

The shot at Caracas

The currently unfolding crisis in Venezuela presents another hopeful in the long series of tragic mistakes of political math.

Juan Guaido, President of Venezuela's National Assembly, holds a copy of Venezuelan constitution during a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government and to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez in Caracas, Venezuela January 23, 20