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Tunisia: Mohamed Bouazizi sets self on fire
Ignites protest -
Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben flees to Saudi Arabia
Ending more than two decades of authoritarian rule -
Tunisia: Snipers carry out a series of massacres in Kasserine and Thala
Violence that shocks Tunisians across the country, laying the seeds for the uprising to become a genuinely nationwide phenomenon -
Yemen: protests emerge against Ali Abdullah Saleh
Who had ruled for more than three decades -
Egypt: Hosni Mubarak resigns
After 18 days of protest -
Libya: rebels assert control
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Syria: protests begin against Bashar Assad
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Yemen: president leaves country
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Egypt: Mubarak goes on trial
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Libya: Rebels enter Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi goes into hiding
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Libya: Gadhafi killed
Ending four decades of authoritarian rule -
Yemen: Saleh resigns
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Bahrain: UN report finds abuses
King Hamad bin Asa Al Khadifi promises reforms -
Egypt: citizens vote in parliamentary elections
Muslim Brotherhood leads -
Syria: UN estimates dead at 5,000