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An online call for anti-government protests across China on Sunday instead brought an emphatic show of force by police determined to deter any buds of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East.

The interim Prime Minister of Tunisia, Mohammed Ghannouchi, has resigned amidst demands by protesters for the removal of all figures associated with the ousted regime of former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

An international refugee crisis is developing on the Libya-Tunisia border as thousands of people are pouring into Tunisia, fleeing the carnage in neighboring Libya.

The full text of resolution 1970 (2011) adopted by the UN Security Council on Feb. 26, 2011 imposing sanctions on Libya.

The UN Security Council passed a resolution to impose sanctions against the Gaddafi-led Libyan government and initiate a probe against the bloody crackdown of anti-government protesters.

President Barack Obama has called Moammar Gaddafi to step down as leader of Libya, citing that the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters questions the legitimacy of his rule

Unrest in the Middle East has now apparently reached the Persian Gulf kingdom of Oman where two people are reported to have died following clashes between state security officers and anti-government protesters. Another ten people were wounded by police firing rubber bullets and tear gas, according to reports.

South Korea's distribution of leaflets by air in the North informing the public about the anti-government protests in the Middle East backfired on Sunday with Pyongyang warning direct firing across the border.

Civilian accounts of the ground reality in Libya and Egypt are set be immortalized through two crowd-sourced documentaries: 'One Day On Earth' and '#18DaysInEgypt.'

A suicide grenade attack outside a Moscow supermarket killed only the perpetrator, according to Russian news agencies.

Following are details of countries evacuating nationals and employees from Libya or closing operations because of the political turmoil.

Gunmen have attacked and bombed Iraq's largest oil refinery, Baiji, shutting down the facility and killing at least five employees

Two Hercules transport aircraft of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) have rescued about 150 workers, mostly Britons, from the Libyan desert, and carried them safely to the Mediterranean isle of Malta.

Tunisian government troops have fired tear gas and warning shots into a crowd of hundreds of protesters staging a rally outside the interior ministry in the capital Tunis.

Early results from Ireland’s national election suggest that the ruling Fianna Fail party has incurred a huge defeat from voters enraged by the government’s austerity budget months after it received a massive 85-billion euro bailout package from the European Union/International Monetary Fund.

In defiance of almost universal condemnation for his actions, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is reportedly raising the stakes by arming his supporters in Tripoli for a long and exhaustive battle against armed rebels who are reportedly encroaching upon the capitol.

In yet another anti-government protest in the Middle East, at least 100,000 people rallied across the impoverished Arab nation of Yemen on Friday, demanding democratic reforms.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has unanimously recommended suspension of Libya from the Geneva-based body in response to bloody crackdown launched by the Libyan government on protesters.

While all American institutions have evacuated students and faculty from high-risk zones, they continue to be worried about their long term moves and prospects in these regions

Anti-government protests in Iraq have resulted in the deaths of at least eleven people as thousands of demonstrators rallied on Friday across the country to express a day of rage.

China's banking regulator has drawn up a tough new set of capital requirement rules as part of efforts to implement Basel III guidelines, according to a document obtained by Reuters on Friday.

Two people were killed in Yemen's southern city of Aden on Friday in protests against the 32-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, while loyalists and opponents held large rival rallies in the capital.

Tens of thousands of mainly Shi'ite Bahrainis gathered in Manama on Friday, declared as a day of mourning by the government, in one of the biggest anti-government protests since unrest erupted 10 days ago.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, mired in a prostitution scandal, faces a tax fraud trial on Monday, the first of four court cases that will bring his legal woes back into the spotlight over coming months.

Violent aftershocks hampered desperate efforts to find survivors in the quake-ruined New Zealand city of Christchurch on Saturday as the death toll climbed to 123 and was set to rise further.

The U.N. atomic watchdog has received new information regarding allegations that Iran may be seeking to develop a nuclear-armed missile, the agency said in a report voicing deepening concern about the issue.

Irish voters went to the polls on Friday to punish their government for bringing the former Celtic Tiger economy to its knees and leaving it a ward of the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

President Barack Obama consulted the leaders of Britain, France and Italy on Thursday on immediate steps to end the Libyan crisis, as Washington kept all options open, including sanctions and military action, to stem the bloodshed.

Government forces shot dead at least two protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, television stations reported, as a popular uprising against Muammar Gaddafi closed in on his main power base.