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Recent worries have been sparked by the failure of the Icelandic banks, which have caused some collateralised-debt obligations (CDOs) to plunge in value.

As Euronews reports, two dozen environmental protesters have been arrested in Iran's East Azerbaijan Province in recent days, following demonstrations sparked by the failure of Iran's Parliament to adopt measures to stem the gradual drying and disappearance of Lake Orumieh, which is known as Lake Urmia to the local Azeri population.

Ironically, the imam was reverting back to the notion that Israel was at the roots of the Middle East and North Africa's multiple problems -- a notion that has all but been discredited by popular Arab revolts in recent years sparked by the failure of Arab autocracy, including its inability to resolve the Palestinian problem.

The contagion sparked by the Lehman failure brought down money market funds and other financial giants, causing a collapse in world trade and a sense of panic by seasoned bankers, policymakers and governments.

By 2002 Labour was forced to responded to a wave of public outrage sparked by the "rewards for failure" for directors of the failed telecoms company Marconi by giving shareholders an advisory vote on pay.

One essential measure to ensure America's influence in the region will be to re-emphasize the attractiveness of the American model after at least eight years of perceived American unilateralism, a war in Iraq, a global financial crisis sparked by the U.S., a failure to take the lead and address climate change, and powerful negative images that have emerged from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

Drug makers paid for cover in a fight over pharmaceutical prices, Ford wanted to beat back legislation sparked by the deadly tire failures on its Ford Explorers, and so on.

Western countries are at the gates of a new cold war with Russia, sparked by the Ukraine crisis and a continuing failure to grasp the depth and seriousness of Vladimir Putin's grievances with the US and EU, the Finnish president, Sauli Niinistö, has warned.

But controversy sparked by the fires still smolders.

This is the second migration wave sparked by the Arab Spring.

Recent protests have focused on political corruption and the failure of the state in providing basic services, sparked by power cuts in the middle of one of the country's most brutal heatwaves in recent years.