Rebel sympathisers, driven underground in Tripoli, have resorted to furtive protests such as writing "No" next to pro-government graffiti.
From the east and west, working with Nato air strikes, resurgent rebels have battled Libyan government forces at flashpoints along the Mediterranean.
Rebels battled their way back into a major oil port just 50km west of Tripoli on Saturday, forcing Muammar Gaddafi’s troops to close the highway.
It started with a Christian woman who wanted a divorce to marry her Muslim lover, and found no other way to do so but to convert to Islam.
Cairo was the scene of violent chaos on Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police.
An Egyptian military court notorious for its harsh verdicts convicted on Tuesday 25 key members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced them to up to 10 years in jail, a security official said. The charges against members of Egypt’s largest opposition group included money laundering and terrorism.
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/ 14 October 2007
Thirty-five Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested on Saturday after police fired tear gas at hundreds of worshippers in a northern Nile Delta village shortly before prayers celebrating the festival that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, police and the group’s website reported.
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/ 22 January 2007
The footage is shocking: a man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomise him with a wooden pole. Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the police officers who made the film, and that they then transmitted it to the cellphones of the victim’s friends in order to humiliate him.
A statement in the name of a group that claimed responsibility for the London bombings threatened to launch ”a bloody war” on the capitals of European countries that do not remove their troops from Iraq within a month.
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/ 27 February 2004
Leaders and officials from more than 50 African states convened a summit on Friday aimed to discuss security strategies for a trouble-plagued continent, with Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi urging Africans to unite if they want to be strong and influential in the world.
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