The convulsions of the Arab Spring find new life as Yemen, Syria and Egypt struggle to transition to new forms of government.

• Syria
  
  Clashes Reported Even as Syria Urges Local Voting
  
• Egypt
  
  Egypt’s Military Retracts Plan to Extend Influence Over Constitution
  
• Libya
  
  Qaddafi Death a Potential Crime
  
• Yemen
  
  Opposition Leader to Be Sworn in Saturday
  
• Syria
  
  Clashes Reported Even as Syria Urges Local Voting
  
• Egypt
  
  Egypt’s Military Retracts Plan to Extend Influence Over Constitution
  
• Libya
  
  Qaddafi Death a Potential Crime
  
• Yemen
  
  Opposition Leader to Be Sworn in Saturday
  

Syria

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Clashes Reported Even as Syria Urges Local Voting

UPDATED DEC. 12 The Syrian government called Monday for voters to turn out for local elections it portrayed as good-faith reform efforts, but activists said that most citizens, observing a second day of a general strike, rejected the polls as irrelevant. Opposition groups reported at least 18 deaths in clashes between security forces and army defectors in several regions.

ABOUT Syria

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package.../syria-map.pngIN POWER

Bashar al-Assad

TOOK POWER IN

2000




Egypt

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Egypt’s Military Retracts Plan to Extend Influence Over Constitution

UPDATED DEC. 9 Egypt’s military rulers on Friday night appeared to withdraw a plan for extending their influence over the writing of a new constitution, evidently bowing to a chorus of criticism just days after the proposal was unveiled. The withdrawal leaves the task of selecting a panel that will write a constitution in the hands of a newly elected Parliament expected to be dominated by Islamists.

ABOUT Egypt

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President Hosni Mubarak

TOOK POWER IN

1981

Unemployment: 8.9% Unemployment < 25 Yrs.: 49.3%




Libya

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Qaddafi Death a Potential Crime

UPDATED DEC. 15 The death of the former Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who was captured and killed by rebels in October, may have been a war crime, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday. The chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said he thought that “the way in which Mr. Qaddafi was killed creates suspicions” of a war crime. Under pressure from Western allies, Libya’s interim government has promised to investigate the former leader’s death.

ABOUT Libya

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package.../libya-map.pngDEPOSED

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi

TOOK POWER IN

1969

Unemployment: 10-14%




Yemen

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Opposition Leader to Be Sworn in Saturday

UPDATED DEC. 7 Under a power-transfer plan signed last month, the General People’s Congress party of President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to divide cabinet posts with its opponents in a coalition government led by an opposition leader, Mohammed Basindwa, a former foreign minister. Mr. Basindwa said he would be sworn in Dec. 10. Presidential elections are set for Feb. 21.

ABOUT Yemen

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package.../yemen-map.pngIN POWER

President Ali Abdullah Saleh

TOOK POWER IN

1990

Unemployment: 10 - 14%
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