Daily Media Digest

Europe

Belgium: 250 days without government
Portugal under euro-zone pressure
The crackdown on the Belarusian opposition continues. OSCE expresses strong concerns.


Middle East and the Arab World

Bahrain is mourning the victims of the latest protests
Dozens reported killed in Libya
Unrest in Yemen
What's going on with Ben Ali? (Actually, I will be extremely careful with this kind of "news": recently, Mubarak also was assumed being in coma. What's the conclusion: the lost of undemocratic power leads to cerebral commotion?)
The Egyptian assets in Switzerland
Egypt: former ministers arrested
Incredible Syria: lecturing EU on democracy

Africa

Uganda votes
Nigeria adopted its first anti-terrorist act
Clashes in South Sudan: 20,000 persons forced to flee

Asia


China, ready to block UN report on North Korea
The Japan-Russia debate over Kurile: to be continued

Latin America

Brazil: War on drug-trafficking
US: Chavez' influence, in decline

Global Markets

G20 Meeting
Robert Zoellick: A monetary regime for a multipolar world 
Gazprom: ready for deliveries to the US

Manipulation and reality

Or how the Arab states are using the "Palestinian" case for very political purposes.

Solution for the Middle East

tell the truth.

The Arab world

An interesting file published in the last issue of The Economist about the Arab world and the pressures for change. But don't expect changes now or in the coming decade: it is mainly about small changes, at the level of mentalities whose duration will take...impossible to evaluate for the moment how long.