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Riot police walk along Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Cairo's Tahrir Square, in front of murals representing people killed during Egypt's uprising.
Conflict
Four years after a ‘revolution,’ Egypt is back to square one
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, at left, poses outside his studio for a photograph with his lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, in July 2012.
Justice
Why the world’s elite are afraid to call out China on its human rights record