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UK Slams Syria Over Protest Crackdown

(Euronews: 0739 PST, April 26, 2011) UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Tuesday that Britain is working on "possible further measures" to be taken against the Syrian government unless it stops attacking its own people. This comes as amateur video footage emerged on the internet that appears to show Syrian security forces shooting at protesters in Deraa yesterday.

 

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Syria: Deraa Witness Says 'Snipers Are Everywhere'

(Al Jazeera English: 0320 PST, April 26, 2011) A resident of Deraa, who we are not naming for security reasons, described to Al Jazeera, through a translator, a desperate situation on the ground in the restive southern city.

 

 

 
 

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Syrian Protests on Video

(Al Jazeera English: 1146 PST, April 22, 2011) "Great Friday" has been the deadliest day of protests in Syria, with police responding to the tens of thousands of protesters with live bullets and tear gas. Dozens have been killed. Here is some of the video footage of the demonstrations - and violence - across the country. Al Jazeera's Stephanie Dekker reports.

 

 

(Al Jazeera English: 1127 PST, April 22, 2011) Rula Amin reports from Damascus.

 

 

 
 

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Misurata: No Food, No Water, Just Snipers

(Euronews: 1226 PST, April 5, 2011) The situation in Misurata -- the rebels' last major stronghold in western Libya -- is increasingly catastrophic as the latest amateur video footage shows. Evacuees from the city said forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are staging a "massacre" there.

 

A resident of the besieged city, a spokesman for the Libya Freedom Group, talked to Euronews and described conditions: "The water has been cut off for about two weeks and the electricity is cut off for about three days and the food is running low for the people right now.

 

 

 
 

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Raw Video: Gunfire As People March in Bahrain

(Associated Press: 1030 PST, February 18, 2011) Soldiers fired tear gas and shot weapons as thousands of protest marchers defied a government ban Friday and streamed toward a landmark square that had been the symbolic center of the uprising against the Gulf nation's leaders.

 

 

 
 

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Mubarak Remains, Protesters Stand Firm

(Al Jazeera English: 0830 PST, February 5, 2011) Tens of thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square have held their ground after Friday's "Day of Departure", continuing to demand that Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, stand down. General Hassan El-Rawani, the head of the army's central command, speaks to the masses in Tahrir Square urging them to leave the square, they chant back at him "We are not leaving, He [Mubarak] is leaving".

 

Protesters Tell Army General, "We won't go, Mubarak has to go"

 

Cairo Protesters Stand Firm

 

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