Ethiopia accuses Norway of 'destablising' region - Yahoo! News: "Norway announced Monday it had been informed by Ethiopia on August 15 that Addis Ababa was 'dissatisfied' with Oslo's diplomacy in the region and was demanding the Scandinavian country downscale its embassy staff."
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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