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Seven Egyptian soldiers freed by captors in Sinai
CAIRO — Seven Egyptian soldiers who had been abducted in the Sinai last week were set free by their captors early Wednesday amid conflicting reports as to how their release was secured. Many local news websites reported that tribe leaders in the...
Tags: Egypt, Armed Forces, Kidnapping, Mohamed Morsi
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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: Armed Conflicts, Egypt, Hamas, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kidnapping
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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: Fatah, Israel, Egypt, Hamas, Hosni Mubarak
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The Benghazi talking points
The furor over the Benghazi talking points continues. Republicans still see them as the main event in a campaign to embarrass President Obama. The president, for his part, calls them a "sideshow." Finally, on Wednesday, the White House released more...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, White House, Barack Obama, Elections
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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, Stock Market, Finance, Egypt, International Monetary Fund
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Mubarak back in court; retrial postponed
CAIRO — The retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak was postponed Saturday until June 8 after prosecutors told a Cairo criminal court that they intend to present new evidence of his responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Pakistan, Justice System, Judges
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Egyptian youth movement leader arrested
CAIRO -- Prominent youth activist Ahmed Maher was arrested on Friday as he sought to leave the Cairo international airport, members of his April 6 youth movement said. Maher, who helped lead the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Crimes, Demonstration, Hosni Mubarak
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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: Prosecution, U.S. Embassy, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak
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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: Government, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, International Monetary Fund
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Hagel calls claims of Syrian chemical weapons use only 'suspicions'
CAIRO — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Wednesday described Israeli claims of Syrian chemical weapons use as unproven “suspicions” and declined to set a timeline for a U.S. assessment of the accusations. Hagel has instructed defense...
Tags: Government, Politics, Barack Obama, Israel, France
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Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists
CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age of bloodshed...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, Religion and Belief, Egypt, Science and Technology, Christian Orthodoxy
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Egypt president sees 'deep state' as enemy within
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi casts himself as a leader navigating a landscape bristling with conspiracies by corrupt businessmen and shadowy figures plotting from inside a vast bureaucracy his Islamist inner circle has been unable to tame....
Tags: Human Rights, Political Corruption, Government, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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