NDCWales is also in the middle of a spring tour celebrating its 30th birthday.
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In fact, it is no exaggeration to point out that the Venezuelan drama should be as great a concern as the elections in the young democracies of the Middle East that emerged in the aftermath of the Arab spring.
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Despite it being the middle of April, that spring was exceptionally cold and the waterfalls that streak the mountains were frozen over.
Caroline Glick, the Center's Senior Fellow for Middle East Affairs, addressed the topic of the recent 'Arab Spring' in the Middle East and what it means for Israel and the United States.
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"The best time to travel is in the middle of all that, spring and fall when prices are discounted, the weather is mostly decent and seasonal places and events are still open, " she says.
Smaller groups of hackers also targeted the websites of Middle Eastern governments last January in support of the Arab Spring.
Clinton made clear that the security situation in North Africa and the Middle East remained threatening in the wake of the Arab Spring upheaval, with longtime leaders ousted in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
Tunisia is the birthplace of the Arab Spring, a series of revolutions that swept across northern African and the Middle East.
They have denied being affiliated to Anonymous, but supported its cyber attacks against the websites of repressive Middle Eastern governments like Libya and Tunisia amidst the Arab Spring.
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" And he drew an analogy between America's attempt to create democracy in the Philippines and its attempt to create a democratic Middle East through invading and occupying Iraq in the spring of 2003: "Democracy always has skeptics.
Dissatisfied by the stalled promise of the Arab Spring, they say that entrepreneurship in the Middle East can yield truly lasting and beneficial change for the region.
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The huge inflows will shore up the finances of the 12-member group, particularly as some Middle East countries lift social spending on the wake of the Arab Spring.
"We did spring training from the middle of January to May, " he said.
During a speech to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles this spring, McCain tried to position himself in the middle of that spectrum.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, efforts to secure political and economic reform in the wake of the Arab Spring were making progress, the UK said in the report.
As a result of this strong civil society, Pakistan had its version of the Arab Spring long before the wave of demands for accountable governments emerged in the Middle East.
New York City plans to open three middle schools with the School of One model in the spring.
"In the post-Arab Spring Middle East, some democratically elected governments are adopting totalitarian practices reminiscent of revolutionary Iran or the Taliban, " Terry Miller, a director at the Heritage Foundation, wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
Regaining full control of Homs would be a psychological blow to the opposition, which considers the city a symbol of Syria's uprising, inspired by other Arab Spring revolts against authoritarian rulers around the Middle East.
Internationally, the Middle East has changed dramatically, as result of the Arab Spring, posing great strategic challenges.
Bibb wondered why Al Jazeera America would plan to produce 60% of its content in the United States, as it has said, when Al Jazeera has increasingly become renowned for its coverage of the Middle East, especially during the recent Arab Spring revolutions.
Then, after the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and series of demonstrations urging clean and fair elections in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Najib switched tack, liberalizing parts of the economy and freeing up civil liberties, including making it easier for protesters to take to the streets, apparently helping him in Sunday's contest.
"It seems that the government is still frightened by the events transpiring in the Middle East and are trying to do what it takes to keep the Arab Spring from reaching its shore, regardless of how small that possibility might be, " he said.
Obama naively saw in the Arab Spring the birth pangs of liberal democracy in the Middle East.
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Because the Arab spring promises to put the Middle East into the hands of the people for the first time, it offers a better future.
Last spring the retired New York City teacher woke in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
He also downplayed claims that Turkey could be on the cusp of its own "Arab Spring" -- the series of popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East that led to political upheaval in Tunisia and Egypt, particularly.
Santana who was scheduled to make his spring debut on March 2 will not appear in a game until at least the middle of next month.
The Arab Spring, which has already toppled governments across the Middle East, has added fuel to the fire of mistrust between countries in the region, conspiring to keep the risk premium in oil alive and well, according to Roubini.
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