CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief said he decided to run for president to prevent Islamists from turning Egypt into a "religious state," and warned that the country would be internationally isolated if one of them won the presidency.
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CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak's former vice president and spy chief Omar Suleiman will have the behind-the-scenes backing of Egypt's ruling generals and the state media's powerful propaganda machine in his bid to succeed his longtime mentor for the nation's (...)
BAGHDAD: Now that US forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shias are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate — and unequal.
Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or (...)
BAGHDAD: Fewer than half the leaders of the Arab world showed up at an Arab summit in Baghdad on Thursday, a snub to the Iraqi government that reflects how trenchantly the sectarian division between Sunnis and Shia and the rivalry with neighboring (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's newly empowered Islamists have tightened their grip, giving themselves a majority on a 100-member panel tasked with drafting a constitution that will define the shape of the government in the post-Hosni Mubarak era.
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WADI NATROUN: Pope Shenouda III, a giant figure for 40 years at the helm of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, has been laid to rest in a desert monastery after a moving funeral Mass at a Cairo cathedral attended by tens of thousands.
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CAIRO: From plumbers to lawyers, dessert chefs to retired master spies, hundreds are trying to join the race for president in what is shaping up to be Egypt's most exciting vote in living memory.
The vote is the first since last year's ouster of (...)
CAIRO: At least 500 Egyptians have taken the first step to run for president, a sign of the excitement generated by the country's first presidential elections in which the outcome is in doubt, election officials said on Wednesday.
They said the (...)
CAIRO: A lineup of Islamists, retired generals, old regime figures and political newcomers are campaigning to become Egypt's first president since Hosni Mubarak's fall, but none of them may have the stature to tackle this nation's enormous problems (...)
CAIRO: A former Egyptian militant has returned home saying he wanted to clear a case of mistaken identity that confused him with a senior Al-Qaeda leader sought by the United States. Washington confirmed that Mohamed Ibrahim Makkawi is not the (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian Cabinet minister has stoked tension with the US over funding nonprofit groups working for democracy in Egypt, accusing Washington of intentionally seeking to create chaos to prevent the country from prospering.
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CAIRO: Egypt's ruling generals have a new enemy: the legions of angry soccer fans who have injected fervor into recent protests demanding the military step down and battled police for days in the streets of Cairo.
Known as Ultras and long viewed (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's ruling generals are playing a risky game of brinksmanship by cracking down on American nonprofit groups that promote democracy, threatening a relationship with Washington that has brought the military billions of dollars in aid over (...)
CAIRO: Assailants attacked a prominent Egyptian activist as she left work at Cairo's Nileside state television headquarters late on Wednesday, in the latest incident of violence against the protest movement that toppled Hosni Mubarak's regime to be (...)
CAIRO: Egypt is facing unprecedented "grave dangers" but its military will protect it, military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said in remarks published on Wednesday which appeared aimed at rallying public opinion against a wave of protests (...)
CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak, on trial for his life, is ferried to court by helicopter from a presidential hospital suite. His sons and co-defendants swagger in wearing designer track suits and no handcuffs. His security chief is treated with near reverence (...)
CAIRO: Reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei's surprise pullout from the presidential race has laid bare the messiness of Egypt's transition to democracy with less than six months left for the ruling generals to hand over power.
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CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as the biggest winner in parliamentary elections, but the fundamentalist group that has long dreamed of ruling Egypt is likely to be cautious about flexing its newfound muscle.
The Brotherhood has been (...)
CAIRO: The prosecutor in the trial of Hosni Mubarak demanded on Thursday that the ousted Egyptian leader be sentenced to hang on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising against his rule.
Mustafa Khater, one (...)
CAIRO: Syria's government has withdrawn heavy weapons from inside cities and freed about 3,500 prisoners but security forces continue to kill protesters even with foreign monitors in the country, the Arab League chief said Monday.
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CAIRO: Syria's opposition has called for the removal of the Sudanese general heading the Arab League mission sent to monitor the crackdown by the Damascus government because he held key security positions in the regime of President Omar Al-Bashir, (...)
CAIRO: Troops and riot police raided Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday in their latest attempt to evict protesters who want the ruling military to immediately step down, according to a field hospital doctor.
It was the second pre-dawn raid (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's ruling military and the revolutionaries who demand they immediately step down battled for a third day in the streets — and competed fiercely for the support of a broader public that has grown tired of turmoil since the fall of Hosni (...)
CAIRO (AP): Partial results show the Muslim Brotherhood emerging as the biggest winner in Egypt's landmark parliamentary elections, and leaders of the once-banned Islamic group demanded to form the next government, setting the stage for a possible (...)
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military rulers have rejected protester demands for them to step down immediately and say they would start the first round of parliamentary elections on time next week, despite serious unrest in Cairo and other cities.
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