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Singapore on Friday unveiled more than a billion dollars in grants and will increase the tax firms must pay for hiring foreign staff amid expectations a general election will be called soon. Lower-income Singaporeans will receive up to 800 Singapore dollars ($630) by May 1 as their share of the city-state’s record 14.5 percent... 

Bahrain's pro-democracy uprising has entered its eighth day, as thousands of protesters camped out at Pearl square in the capital city, Manama. Inspired by popular revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Bahraini demonstrators say they will stay in the square until the regime collapses, Press TV correspondents reported. Bahrain's... 

Several people were injured when police used batons to break up a pro-democracy rally in this Algerian capital, a media report said Sunday. Algerian police brandishing clubs, but no firearms, weaved their way through the crowd of about 50 opposition supporters in central Algiers Saturday, banging their shields, tackling some...