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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: Cairo (Egypt), Hamas, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt, Kidnapping
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Italian court told about Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
ROME -- The Moroccan-born dancer at the center of Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitution trial took the stand in court for the first time Friday, describing how female guests at Berlusconi’s so-called bunga-bunga parties stripped to their underwear...
Tags: Punishment, Milan (Italy), Trials, Italy, Litigation
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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: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Arab Spring, Brookings Institution, Elections
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The Week Ahead: Iran and Pakistan on the stump, Mubarak on trial
D-Day for Iranian presidential race Tuesday, May 7 -- So many candidates, so few promising real change. More than a dozen Iranian lawmakers, former Cabinet ministers, revolutionary guardsmen and allies of Islamic leaders have thrown in their hats...
Tags: Nawaz Sharif, Political Corruption, Think Tanks, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Justice System
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Egypt moves to block access to pornography
CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist-controlled government said this week it is moving to block the country’s access to pornography -- one website at a time. Sherif Hashem, deputy head of the national telecom regulatory authority, announced that...Tags: Government, Mohamed Morsi, Politics, Pornography, Media Industry
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Egypt allows showing of 'Jews of Egypt' documentary
CAIRO – The battle between censors and filmmakers over "Jews of Egypt" ended this week when authorities granted permission for the documentary to be shown despite fears it may agitate Egypt’s anti-Israeli hatred amid months of political unrest...
Tags: Chinua Achebe, Judaism, Arab Spring, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Setting Times stories to music: From the Smiths to R.E.M.
By Kari Howard These songs are a personal soundtrack for this week’s wonderful Column Ones, but one below is featured on an actual soundtrack, for the Danny Boyle movie “The Beach.” The band is called Underworld, and Boyle has used...
Tags: Billiards, Snooker and Pool, Suez Canal, Immigration, Sports, Music
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Egypt's Mubarak ordered back to prison
CAIRO -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ordered back to Tora Prison after a medical report Wednesday determined that he no longer needed advanced treatment at a military hospital along the Nile. A probe by the general prosecutor’s...
Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Justice System, Mohamed Morsi
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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: Arab Spring, Mohamed Morsi, Iran, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Egyptian judge withdraws from Mubarak retrial
CAIRO -- The judge in the murder retrial of Hosni Mubarak abruptly withdrew from the case Saturday, sending the matter to another court and delaying the deposed president’s fate over the actions of his police and army during the 2011 Egyptian...
Tags: Justice System, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Mohamed Morsi, Trials, Justice and Rights
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At least five killed in Egyptian sectarian clashes
CAIRO – At least five people were killed Saturday in clashes between Muslims and Christians, raising new questions over whether President Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist-led government can calm sectarian tensions amid Egypt’s broader...
Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Egypt, Religion and Belief, Islam, Religious Conflicts
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