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Southern Tunisia lives largely off illegal cross-border trade. A strike has been staged following deadly clashes between police and demonstrators after the seizure of contraband fuel. Unions are demanding job creation schemes, the lifting of an export tax imposed on goods imposed in October. It is estimated that about 328,000 tonnes of contraband products pass through Ras Jedir annually. Smuggling was costing the Tunisian exchequer at least $675m a year.

This article, from the Times, discusses the transition seen in Saudi Arabia after the death of Kind Abdullah. It specifically discusses the story of a woman, named Loujain Al Hathloul, who drove illegally and was stopped by police. The police took her passport and refused to let her drive. She took to Twitter about the experience as she sat for about a day in her car until she was arrested.

This link is to a YouTube video of an interview with Rania al-Baz. Rana al-Baz was a female news caster that was beaten almost to death by her husband. She went public with her story and posted images of her badly beaten face. She doesn't recall the beating, but she does remember being strangled prior to.

CAIRO (AP) An Egyptian appeals court on Monday convicted a doctor of manslaughter and performing female genital mutilation that led to the death of a 13-year-old girl, sentencing him to two years and three months in prison in the country's first case that came to trial over the widespread practice, defense lawyers said.

This article presents various things about Cairo, Egypt. Among them are education, marriage, customs and traditions in marriage, birth as well as death.

Tunisian government's new draft counterterrorism law would permit extended incommunicado detention, weaken due process guarantees for people charged with terrorism offenses, and allow the death penalty. This bill was sent to parliament on March 26, 2015.

Sisa took on male identity after her husband s death in order to find work to support her daughter. This lasted for 40 years. She is not up for a presidential award.

After the king death the oil price went higher 2%, which mean that Saudi Arabia has huge influence in the oil market. All signals indicate Saudi Arabia will stay the course on its oil production and policies. Saudi Arabia will not cut oil production.

A new analysis of the data available to the public about drone strikes, conducted by the human-rights group Reprieve, indicates that even when operators target specific individuals - the most focused effort of what Barack Obama calls "targeted killing" - they kill vastly more people than their targets, often needing to strike multiple times. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147 people, as of 24 November.

This link is considered a refresher course on the Syrian civil war. It mentions how it started, who's involved, the reasoning behind the fighting, the death toll, the leadership, and much more.

Libyans are in conflict over supporting US-backed airstrikes against ISIS in the city of Benghazi. Some feel that it is necessary to thwart the extremist group and others feel that it will only cause more deaths and destruction from mistaken locations

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is under attack due to their leader being sentenced to death. The new regime seems to try and attack the organization from the top down by taking out the groups leaders. With the constant threat, Brotherhood supporters remain stedfast in their beliefs.