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CAIRO, Egypt — At least 24 people were killed during clashes between Egyptian security forces and several hundred protesters, mostly Coptic Christians, in central Cairo on Sunday, in one of the bloodiest street battles since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – Just days after the departure of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, the nation’s new, self-appointed military leaders pledged, within six months, a swift transition to civilian rule.... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – Once focused on ousting their former leader, Hosni Mubarak, protesters in Cairo have found a new target in recent weeks: Israel... (read more) |
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AJDABIYA, Libya – With major combat operations in Libya's 6-month civil war starting to wind down in the east, rebels fighters living in this dusty battlefield city have turned some of their attention to the next big battle — cleaning up the mess that was left behind... (read more) |
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BENGHAZI, Libya – As night fell over the port of Benghazi, rebel fighters guarding the city's lone naval base seemed eager to take part in the raucous celebration of gunfire and dynamite explosions happening across town... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt's revolutionaries received a crucial bit of closure earlier this month when Egypt's ailing ex-president, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, was wheeled inside the caged dock of a Cairo courtroom, clad in a white prison jumpsuit... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – With just under two minutes before Miral Brinjy's new television show "Hashtag" is slated to go live on air, the young Egyptian presenter starts to panic.... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – More than four months after the ouster of Tunisia's autocratic president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Osama bin Laden finally weighed in from a continent away... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – In Cairo's bustling Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the popular uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, street merchants are turning Egypt's revolution into dollars and cents... (read more) |
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DJERBA, Tunisia — American journalists James Foley and Clare Gillis were relieved and in good health when they crossed the border into Tunisia Thursday, six weeks after they were first detained by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi... (read more) |
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SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia – It was the slap heard around the world. When Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit vendor from central Tunisia, was slapped by a female police officer on Dec. 17 last year, his pain was felt by millions of Arabs across North Africa and the Middle East... (read more) |
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MATMATA, Tunisia — The cavernous, underground homes chiseled deep into the orange boulders along this mountainous stretch of the Sahara certainly feel like they belong in another galaxy... (read more) |
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DJERBA, Tunisia — As Jews around the world celebrate the Passover holiday this week, which commemorates the Biblical migration of the Israelites from ancient Egypt, some in Tunisia’s Jewish minority are considering their own modern-day exodus... (read more) |
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RAS JEDIR, Tunisia — When 26-year-old Abdel Gaffar Mohamed boarded a dingy off the coast of Tripoli last month, the Ethiopian mechanic was hoping to escape war-torn Libya by sailing to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a quick 150-mile journey over calm seas... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt — Abdel Rahman Faris never saw it coming. When the news of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation reached Faris’ tent in Tahrir Square on Friday, the 30-year-old blogger, along with tens of thousands around him, erupted in jubilation... (read more) |
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TUNIS, Tunisia — Thousands of protesters, from university students to members of security forces, march peacefully past shuttered storefronts and military barricades, railing against perceived government injustices in this tiny North African state... (read more) |
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The balmy winter morning started like every other for Foad el-Gharib — with a quick dip in the warm, turquoise-blue water of the Red Sea outside his resort home in Coral Bay... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt — As Egypt assumed its year-long chairmanship of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees executive committee in Geneva last month, its policy of shooting unarmed migrants along its “death zone” border with Israel has come into stark relief... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt – Several hours before the first light breaks through the smog-filled skies above this sprawling capital city, Sheikh Ayman Gamal begins his days the same way... (read more) |
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HURGHADA, Egypt – When Hamdy Shahat and his four-man crew first set sail from this resort town last month, he expected to return with a boatload full of red snapper to sell at the market later that night... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt — Stocks in Egypt tumbled when anxiety-ridden investors heard the news. President Hosni Mubarak had checked into a hospital in Germany for a minor surgery, but on the streets of Cairo, there was speculation he was seriously ill, maybe even dead... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt — A picture may be worth a thousand words, but many Egyptians are speechless over an image that recently hit the streets in this bustling capital city... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt — Hagg Mohamed arrives at the bar just before 10 a.m. and orders his first drink. A dozen other customers are already several glasses down, all slouching on a short bench against the tile-covered walls. An old fan above sits motionless, and the narrow room reeks of smoke, stale alcohol and boiled onions, served alongside the alcohol... (read more) |
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - The family of a 20-year-old man found dead in the Mahmoudia Canal said he was tortured to death by police officers from the Sidi Gaber Police Station in this coastal city. Two policemen from the same station are facing charges in connection with the death of another Alexandria man... (read more) |
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RAFAH, Egypt - While over 1,000 Palestinians navigated through the Rafah border crossing since its opening on Wednesday, many Gazans destined to Egypt were denied entry for lacking official papers... (read more) |
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CAIRO: Confusion, anger, and fear have struck owners and employees of Egypt's embattled pork industry, as government plans to slaughter the country's pigs moves forward... (read more) |
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CAIRO, Egypt: I watched the game at the Al-Ohmda restaurant in Mohandessin, a residential neighborhood on the west bank of the Nile River just within eyeshot of the Great Pyramid at Giza. The atmosphere in the open-air cafe was electric, even hours before kickoff... (read more) |
