Arab Spring cost more than $600 billion worth of growth, U.N. report says

The uprisings that became known as the Arab Spring were sparked in December 2010, when a young Tunisian fruit seller set himself on fire in response to harassment from police officers. Within months, huge protests had spread throughout the Arab world, taking down autocratic governments in four countries, but also sparking horrific civil wars and giving fuel to […]

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