Across the Middle East and North Africa, CNN's reporters and iReporters are covering protests, many of them inspired by revolts in Tunisia and Egypt that toppled those countries' longtime rulers. Check out our story explaining the roots of the unrest in each country and full coverage of the situation in Libya. Have a story to tell from the scene? Click here to send an iReport.
Developments on unrest in the Middle East and North Africa:
SUNDAY
[OMAN, 9:00 a.m. ET, 6:10 a.m. local] At least two protesters were killed and about 10 injured during clashes between protesters and police in the Omani industrial town of Sohar, according to reports from state media and Oman TV editor Asma Rshid. "The police shot them because they burned shops and cars in Sohar," Rshid said. Another source said police fired rubber bullets. A number of police had also reportedly been injured, but CNN has not been able to confirm how many.
[LIBYA, 9 am ET, 4:15 p.m. local] Protests are picking up in Libya's western city of Zawiya with former security forces who said they have switched sides and joined the opposition.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a draft resolution to impose sanctions against Libya amid escalating attacks on anti-government protesters in the north African country.
The resolution draft includes an arms embargo, asset freeze and a travel ban. It also refers Libya to the International Criminal Court.
SATURDAY
[TUNISIA, 9:12 p.m. ET, 3:12 a.m. local] Protests in Tunisia turned violent and deadly Saturday, just over six weeks after a popular uprising forced the president out of office, and lit a spark of desire for democratic reform in parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Three people were killed Saturday and nine others injured during mayhem in the capital, Tunis, according to a Interior Ministry statement cited by the state-run news agency, Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).
More than 100 people were arrested, the ministry said, in the area around Habib Bourguiba Avenue, in the city's center, accused of "acts of destruction and burning."
[LIBYA, 4:58 p.m. ET, 11:58 p.m. local] City councils in areas no longer loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have chosen former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil to head an interim government which will represent all of Libya, according to Amal Bogagies, a member of the February 17 Uprising coalition, and a separate Libyan opposition source.
[LIBYA, 4:40 p.m. ET, 11:40 p.m. local] President Barack Obama, in a statement issued Saturday after reports that forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had fired on civilians, said "that when a leader's only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now."
The White House statement was issued after Obama spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
[BAHRAIN, 9:37 a.m. ET, 5:37 p.m. local] Exiled opposition leader Hassan Mushaima has arrived back in Manama, Bahrain. Mushaima, leader of the Haq Movement, had told followers earlier in the week that he had been detained in Beirut, Lebanon.
[YEMEN, 2 a.m. ET, 10 a.m. local] Four people were killed and 26 wounded in clashes Friday night between anti-government protesters and security forces in southern Yemen, medical officials in Aden said Saturday.
[LIBYA, 2 a.m. ET, 9 a.m. local] A U.N. security panel is scheduled to meet Saturday to discuss new sanctions against Libya amid escalating attacks on anti-government protesters in the north African country. The resolution draft includes an arms embargo, asset freeze and a travel ban. It also refers Libya to the International Criminal Court.
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Hi Little Caesar. So today's world is worse off than the dark ages with plague rats running around and constant religious genocide? You're Bible is a fraud. Why did your mean blood thirsty God kill so many people with 2 Quakes in Christchurch New Zealand? Whenever the weather changes some crackpot like yourself turns a nice kind loving God into the fanged gnarling vengeful murderer. You're a sick person for using God to further your twisted agenda. The world isn't ending. People are getting fed up with madmen and religious dogma.
The Wisconsin government party demonstrations are much more mean spirited than anything the tea party ever did but we don't see much of the "press" showing that. So much for their call for civility. And I didn't figure this out listening to rachel madlow or rush l.
some one needs to get that man some peanutbutter and jelly stat!!
Hi, RUFFNUTT! How are you?
i'n ok.. was hanging out with jesus that last few days... we made some holy water, water ballons.. and then we wnet out in my camaro and did some drive-by baptisms..
Come on Phunnie boy,if you want to post your jokes under my name,please leave Jesus out of them. That's getting blasphemous.
@FAKEY.. you so lame you cant even come up with yourown name... and just copy and paste the same stupid stuff...
evrey american and french and britian has to go out and protest against america and france and germany goning into libya
america is looking for a reason to go into libya
we had enough when america went into iraq
on second thoughts if they will go in its going to backfire big time and obama sarcozy merk. r going to loose ther next election
america has no right to go into libya
neither has another country the right to go in
if another country wants to help they can take in citizens from libya
we vote our goverment into office in if they dont do what we want we should impeached them out a s a p
Li think the Libyan people wants US financial support, not necessarily military support. It is not our fight; it is their's. If everyone reads all the threads like I do, people have called for the US to send troops to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and every other place there have been protests against the government in power. The US is keeping on eye on the ME; they are not, however, going to have a bloody repeat of all the wars we've interceded in. President Obama is doing the exact right thing; keeping an eye in the situation, and not have a knee-jerk reaction to going in like a bunch of cowboys and save the day.
smells like truth.. Ohhh and by the way the plague rats.. That was self imposed we know better than you europe lifestyles posing as non primitive. These days its the n.r.a. Rats at every level that contaminate the humans. Do not change a thing. God likes the n.r.a. And weather always makes us smile.
Satan says : hey RUFFNUTT ; u r going to heaven after u die to live with God and jesus and the angels ..... "Yeah Keep Telling Yourself That" because I got u right where I want you......... HA HA HA HAUuH ........!!!! YOU FOOL.......
DEAR SATAN: you can't have your three-wolves t-shirt back.. it's mine now... you lost it fair and square...
oh yeah and jesus came over last night and told me where your vital spot is.. so if you want some trouble i'll be waiting... i'll kung-fu you so hard in your vital spot.. that you'll need a +5 magic crowbar to pry you horns outa your buttocks..
Come on Phunnie boy,quit posting you blasphemous jokes under my name,please! Satan already has the armies of the United States,Great Britain and France to do his bidding on earth and he appears to getting things his way and how!!! Look at what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan!
@fake nutt... i know you wanna be me... but you are lame.. and have no game..
@fake nutt
btw when jesus comes back... he comming back and an american.. and he's going to kung-fu mohamed right in his bean-bag..
Hey RUFFNUTT your Nutts R Not RUFF enough! Roughen up those nuts b***h or cease to be known as RUFFNUTT U PHUCER !!!!
i'm gonna slap you with my "fat mama bashing stick" it's +4 attack +20% critical strike and +25% life leech...
your lucky your not and elf or i'd have to get out " elf thumper 2 " ..
stewart RAYMOND weaver broke into my car and destroyed the original "elf thumper"
stewart... if you ever read this be warned!!! elf thumer 2... is not to be trifeled with.. it's a vorpal weapon and severs elf heads on a 18 or higher.. also if the elf is slain with "elf thumper 2" the elfs soul is sucked into the weapon and forever trapped..
oh yeah... and fat ugly mama... i have a rune for protection from stank fatties.. 15' radius..
Hey you,you're evidently a fan of both Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann,but must you use their choice of words upon insulting me??? The English language already has a rather extensive vocabulary so the Tea Party lingo isn't really all that necessary!
@faake nutt... lame...
OMG!!!! People are rising up against a tyrant the world must be ending!! Ahhh Jesus is useless with no baddies to battle!!! Ahhh c'mon Gadhafi stick in there. Omg it's snowing in California! Just like the Bible predicted!!! Ahhhh. Quick gimmy some lambs to hack up as an offering to God! What? No lambs? Ummm kittens? Any kittens around? Baby ducklings? Run scurry flee flee! 2012 is the end just like the Bible said! Wait what the Mayans said that? Well who cares if they couldn't predict the demise of their culture they sacrificed living stuff too so they must be onto something.
SILENCE! WHO DARE SUMMON ME FROM BELOW!
hey you little punk... the three-wolf tshirt is mine now.. go back down below and stop crying about it..
Don't know why I'm being blocked. Weird... I'm not phunny boy or anything. One bad apple ruins everything... Anyways Ruffnutt Mo and Jeezy are boys. Read the Koran and you'll see that. We are just watching one big chess game on a global scale. Complete with kings, queens, bishops and pawns. I guess the knights would be military and rooks would be castles or something. Anywhoo That's my hypothesis.
I call myself Young Hova(as in Jehovah), because either I am God or a fraud. Jesus has not stopped me though, so he either doesn't exist or he doesn't care.
Now the United Nations voted to starve the Libyan people as if the conflict there didn't go far enough. Have these people absolutely no shame at all??? What's wrong with them??? Or did the C.I.A. manage to pay them off,too??? I find the whole thing revolting!!!
What needs to happen in Libya is an assassination of Gadhafi. Sanctions are useless. One shot one kill bang boom done. Although I would rather see swarms of foreign troops take over that country so I could complain about war for oil in a couple months.
Sorry folks,I never posted the above as I'm not that naive!!!