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Jordan Protests Take Aim at King

Elizabeth Arrott

Published November 20, 2012

Protesters in Jordan declared Friday a "day of rage" as anger sparked by a cut in fuel subsidies boiled over into a call for revolution. VOA's Elizabeth Arrott has more from the capital, Amman.


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