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• New island forms in Red Sea off Yemen: NASA

  A new island has appeared off the west coast of Yemen following a volcanic eruption, NASA said Friday.

• Crowd dynamics: The wisdom of crowds | The Economist

  IMAGINE that you are French. You are walking along a busy pavement in Paris and another pedestrian is approaching from the opposite direction. A collision will occur unless you each move out of the other’s way. Which way do you step? The answer is almost certainly to the right. Replay the same scene in many parts of Asia, however, and you would probably move to the left. It is not obvious why. There is no instruction to head in a specific direction (South Korea, where there is a campaign to get people to walk on the right, is an exception). There is no simple correlation with the side of the road on which people drive: Londoners funnel to the right on pavements, for example.

• UK secretly supplied Saddam - FT.com

  Margaret Thatcher’s government was covertly supplying military equipment to Iraq as early as 1981, according to newly released government documents. Secret files made public on Friday contain an exhaustive list of equipment from Hawk fighter jets to military air and naval bases that the government was attempting to sell Saddam Hussein’s regime.

• Crackdown in Cairo - By Sarah Carr | Foreign Policy

  CAIRO – There was a flurry of good news last week in Egypt. Activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah was released on Christmas Day, Cairo's Administrative Court issued a ruling banning "virginity tests," and thousands of women took part in a spirited march in downtown Cairo to denounce the military's brutal violence against women protesters during the breakup of a sit-in in front of the Cabinet building on Dec. 16 and 17. That streak of good times was interrupted Thursday afternoon when public prosecution officials, assisted by armed Central Security Forces (CSF) soldiers -- Cairo's ubiquitous black-clad riot troops -- raided the offices of six civil society groups.

• هل تخبرنا التجربة الرومانية بما سيحدث في مصر؟

  هل تخبرنا التجربة الرومانية بما سيحدث في مصر؟

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