CAIRO: The government is struggling to contain a political crisis sparked by rising world food prices. Violent clashes have broken out at long lines for subsidized bread, and the president, worried about unrest, has ordered the army to step in to (...)
CAIRO: Police on Wednesday arrested 25 members of the country s largest opposition movement, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, police officials and the Brotherhood said.
The dawn arrests in nine provinces were the latest in an ongoing crackdown on (...)
CAIRO: The latest hit movie in Egypt opens with footage of Egyptian police brutally beating democracy protesters and ends with angry masses storming a police station where demonstrators are being tortured. The audiences cheer.
The film, Heya (...)
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Officials meeting here Wednesday to prepare for the upcoming EU-Africa summit this weekend expressed high hopes, lauding that envoys from both the European Union and the African Union will convene again after seven years.
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CAIRO: The government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood s largest annual social gathering for the first time in 20 years, part of a concerted crackdown against the country s opposition, the group s leadership said Sunday.
Every year, the (...)
CAIRO: The editor of Al-Dostour daily independent newspaper Ibrahim Eissa was ordered put on trial over his paper s recent reports questioning the health of 79-year-old President Hosni Mubarak, the state news agency reported Tuesday.
Eissa, an (...)
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CAIRO: Al-Qaeda's No. 2 issued a new videotape calling for Pakistanis to join the holy war in revenge for the attack by Pakistan's army on a radical mosque.
Ayman Al-Zawahri's four-and-a-half-minute address was entitled "The (...)
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CAIRO: The Islamic group Hamas may consider a one-year cease-fire with Israel, the organization s deputy political leader said in an interview published Saturday in an Egyptian newspaper.
Khaled Mashaal s political deputy, (...)
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CAIRO: Egypt s foreign minister urged both Israelis and Palestinians on Monday to end the recent cycle of violence that has left dead and wounded on both sides, according to a foreign ministry statement.
Foreign Minister Ahmed (...)
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CAIRO: Egypt s once largest militant group has appealed to the Al-Qaeda terror network to renounce its violent ideology and rally behind the Egyptian Islamic militants conversion to a peaceful struggle.
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CAIRO: Police arrested 14 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood as part of Egypt s ongoing campaign against the country s strongest opposition group, the interior ministry and the group said Sunday.
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CAIRO: Egypt rejected a report by human rights group Amnesty International that accused the country of systematic abuse against prisoners, calling it inaccurate and unfair.
Amnesty s report Wednesday said 18,000 people were in (...)
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CAIRO: A top US Democratic congressman met a senior figure of the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood, US officials and spokespersons for the Islamist group said.
Visiting US House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who ranks (...)
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CAIRO: Opposition lawmakers boycotted an opening parliamentary debate Sunday on constitutional amendments they say will further tighten the president s grip on power.
More than 100 lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood and (...)
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CAIRO: Egypt s largest Islamist opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other opposition lawmakers on Monday rejected controversial constitutional amendments demanded by the president.
The lawmakers said they do not plan (...)
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CAIRO: Libya won t attend the upcoming Arab summit in Saudi Arabia, the Libyan foreign minister said Sunday, adding that the Arab world is not serious and that joint Arab action is dysfunctional.
Arab joint action is marred by (...)
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CAIRO: Egypt has stopped the transmission by its TV satellite of Al-Zawraa, a private Iraqi channel whose propaganda on behalf of the Iraqi insurgency had drawn fire from the US and Iraqi governments, an Information Ministry (...)
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CAIRO: The novel that almost cost Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz his life has finally been published in book form in Egypt, four months after his death, and has become a best seller.
The first edition of Awlad Haretna, or (...)
CAIRO: Heba Kotb is a conservative Muslim, wears an Islamic head scarf, and goes on television once a week to talk - frankly and in great detail - about sex.
On her show, Big Talk, Kotb answers questions from Muslims all over the Middle East (...)
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CAIRO: With the 25th anniversary of Anwar Sadat s assassination this past Friday, Egypt faces an uncertain political future with most democracy reform efforts stalled and the country obsessively focused on the possibility that (...)
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CAIRO: The grand sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque, the Sunni Arab world s most powerful institution, demanded on Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI apologize more clearly for insulting Islam.
The pope s remarks were insulting to Islam (...)
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CAIRO: Babies have been named Hezbollah and Nasrallah. Even some die-hard secularists are praising the Shiite fundamentalist militia in the wake of its cease-fire with Israel, saying its fighters restored their feelings of honor (...)
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CAIRO: Moderate Arab governments reacted with relative restraint to Israel s offensive in Lebanon, condemning attacks on civilians and infrastructure, but also implicitly criticizing Hezbollah.
The relative silence appeared to (...)
The Court of Cassation has ordered the retrial of 96 men, including 92 exonerated by a criminal court, who are suspected of involvement in some of the nation's worst incidents of sectarian violence. Nadia Abou El-Magd reports
Al-Kosheh village (...)
Celebrating the anniversary of the 23 July revolution, Nasserists asked themselves some tough questions about what remained of its legacy. Nadia Abou El-Magd reports
Late President Gamal Abdel- Nasser peered out from a huge picture at a little fewer (...)