Terror occurred and leaders from different countries started killing people‚ mostly peasants‚ which was 70% of the population. When the Reign of Terror ended‚ France gave the ropes to Napoleon Bonaparte to try and do what Louis XVI couldn’t do. The syrian conflict is a fight for the control over Syria and to get rid of its current president‚ Bashar al-Assad. Reform in Syria started when Bashar’s father Hafez
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will also look at the signs present in the news and their meanings. Finally‚ I will explore the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity. I will concentrate on the first two stories of the bulletin. The first report is about the ongoing uprising in Syria and takes a deeper look at the families fleeing the war zone and the developing humanitarian crisis. The second package is about the government proposals to remove child benefits from anyone earning over £40.000. I will start by exploring
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Arab Spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations‚ protests‚ and wars occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 and have continued since. To date‚ rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia‚ Egypt‚ Libya‚ and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Kuwait‚ Morocco‚ and Sudan. Some key characteristics of this revolutionary movement are the key role of social media‚ difference of results in monarchies
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Table of Contents Introduction Al Jazeera is a news provider launched in Qatar in 1996. The founder of the Al Jazeera network was Sheik Hamad‚ former emir of Qatar. The reason Hamad launched Al Jazeera was because he was disappointed with the lack of freedom of press in his country (Allied Media Corp.). The first rule in Al Jazeera’s code of ethics is that they “adhere to the journalistic values of honesty‚ courage‚ fairness‚ balance‚ independence‚ credibility and diversity‚ giving no priority
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For centuries‚ Arab regimes have expropriated‚ abused and taken advantage of power and wealth from their people; it was only a matter of time before things turned around. The year 2010 will be remembered in history as the year that witnessed the uprising of the Arab Spring‚ the term "Arab Spring" denotes the Revolutions of 1848; a series of political turmoil swept through Europe in 1848. Moreover‚ in the aftermath of the Iraq War the term ‘Arab Spring’ was used by analysts who foresaw a major Arab
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post-Arab spring regional order except Syria who seems to cause tremendous crisis all over the region. Syria didn’t fall in the trap of the “Domino Effect” and as such‚ it was never being spotted in the good look in the eyes of the Turkish government. Syrian government is doing all the best to
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The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world that do not have their own independent state to call home. They are different from other Muslims because they are not ethnically Arab or Persian. The Kurds are Sunni Muslims and have their own religious differences and speak their own language‚ Kurdish. This goes all the way back to World War I and the breaking up of the Ottoman Empire. The Kurdish people are instead spread out between four different states where they are a minority; Iran‚ Iraq
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Historical Background & Causes: The Turkish-Kurdish conflict began because of the refusal of the Turkish government to recognize the national identity of the Kurds. The Turkish government tried to get rid of the Kurdish identity and assimilate the Kurds into Turkish society. There was also an attempt to get rid of the Kurdish language‚ which later was called a “linguistic genocide”. Despite the fact that the Kurdish language was banned only in 1983‚ already in 1925 in some provinces it was forbidden
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The Treatment of children in areas of armed conflict SUBMITTED BY: Mexico The General Assembly‚ Deeply Disturbed by the recent number of massacres of citizens including children in Syria since the anti-regime uprising in March 2011‚ Noting with Deep Concern that the Syrian government has repeatedly and regularly violated its ceasefire conditions‚ which is causing escalating tension and possibly leading to civil war‚ Referring to Article 4 of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child
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The popular-uprising-turned-armed-rebellion in Syria is in its third year‚ and seems poised to continue‚ with the government and an array of militias locked in a bloody struggle of attrition. Members of Congress and Administration officials are debating options for responding militarily to President Bashar al Asad’s forces’ reported use of chemical weapons in attacks on rebel-held areas and civilians. After the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Asad’s forces used weapons in limited
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