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Egypt's border with Gaza stays closed as protest continues
CAIRO — Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip remained closed Sunday as the families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped in the northern Sinai Peninsula last week continued a sit-in. A video was briefly posted on YouTube...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kidnapping, Hamas, Cairo (Egypt), Armed Conflicts
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Supporters of abducted soldiers keep Sinai-Gaza border shut
CAIRO — The families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped last week in North Sinai kept Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip closed Sunday for the third day in a row. Nearly 170 demonstrators have gathered inside the...
Tags: Israel, Hosni Mubarak, Kidnapping, Hamas, Mohamed Morsi
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Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market
CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy. But every day Mostafa Ismail, a financial broker with a hangman's demeanor, steps into the Egyptian stock exchange hoping for positive blips. They are rare in a nation where revolution...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Islam, Finance, Hosni Mubarak, Religion and Belief
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Smugglers provide KFC delivery to Gaza Strip; they advertise on Facebook
Imagine living in an area where you can't get your hands on your favorite foods. Now imagine how much you'd pay to get them. When people living in the Gaza Strip get a craving for KFC, there's no way they can get it. There are no name-brand fast-food...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Media Industry, Salads, Chocolate Cake
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American man stabbed outside U.S. Embassy in Cairo
CAIRO — An American man was stabbed by an unidentified assailant outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Thursday, officials said. The reason for the attack was not immediately clear, though Egyptian officials said it did not appear to be politically...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Hosni Mubarak, Prosecution, Cairo (Egypt)
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Egyptian Cabinet shuffle strengthens Muslim Brotherhood
CAIRO -- President Mohamed Morsi reshuffled his Cabinet on Tuesday, strengthening the Muslim Brotherhood’s hold on power and angering the opposition amid Egypt’s economic turmoil and political unrest. The naming of nine new ministers...
Tags: Islam, Religion and Belief, Elections, Political Dissent, Justice System
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USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...
Tags: Evo Morales, United Nations, Hosni Mubarak, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, George W. Bush
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Survey: Many Muslims want sharia, but differ on what that means
In Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries across the globe, most Muslims support making sharia, or Islamic law, the official law of the land, according to a sweeping survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. But sharia means different...
Tags: Pakistan, Islam, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Religion and Belief
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Egypt justice minister resigns after protests
CAIRO — Egypt's besieged justice minister has submitted his resignation after protests over the weekend by Islamists, who want to purge the courts of judges and lawyers perceived as political enemies of President Mohamed Morsi. Justice Minister...Tags: Justice System, Hosni Mubarak, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Mohamed Morsi
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Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel on Time 100 list
It's not as juicy as Forbes' annual highest-paid celebrities list, but the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people always provides plenty of conversational fodder, especially when it comes to which TV personalities made the list. Though...
Tags: Mindy Kaling, Television, Family Guy (tv program), The Voice (tv program), Lena Dunham
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'Arab Spring,' once an inspiration, now a more cautionary tale
Two years ago, the "Arab Spring" that deposed dictators and demagogues was an inspiration to hundreds of millions of repressed souls across the Middle East who yearned for a say in how they were governed. Today, with the Egyptian economy in ruins,...
Tags: Islam, Hosni Mubarak, Religion and Belief, Political Systems, Saudi Arabia
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Egypt street vendors, store owners say Morsi is bad for business
GIZA, Egypt — The woman with crates of unsold tomatoes breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking chickens, blowing laundry, clattering junkmen. But the ingrained rhythms only angered Hamid Ali Mohamed, who sat...
Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Tomatoes, Breads, Mohamed Morsi, Crime, Law and Justice
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