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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The Gaza Strip will not be "livable" within eight years if steps are not taken immediately to improve basic services, the United Nations warned Monday. Share This Story "Action needs to be taken now if Gaza is to be a livable place in 2020, and it is...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Egypt's Islamist president Mohammed Morsi on Monday named a team of 21 advisers and aides that includes three women and two Christians and a large number of Islamist-leaning figures, backing off campaign promises to appoint a Christian and a woman as...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
The Non-Aligned Movement comprises nations that don't belong to major blocs led by world powers. As Egypt's first Islamist president, and as a successor to a long tradition of military rule, Morsi has signaled an eagerness to extend Egypt's ties,...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Egypt's president has named a team of 21 advisers and aides that includes three women and two Christians.
The appointments, announced Monday by President Mohammed Morsi's spokesman, fall short of Morsi's promises during his election...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Perhaps to allay fears that he is pursuing an Islamist agenda, the president of Egypt , Mohammed Morsi's has appointed a Christian and a woman academic among his four-member staff of presidential assistants...Samir Murqus, a liberal Coptic (Christian)...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi was invited to the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran by Iranian vice-president Hamid Baghaei on 8 August. Photograph: Ho/AFP/Getty Images Egypt 's new leader, Mohamed Morsi , is due to visit Iran this week, marking a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on Monday appointed a Coptic Christian intellectual and a woman university professor as presidential assistants, his spokesperson Yasser Ali announced. Samir Morcos, a liberal Coptic writer engaged in the...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Iran on Monday was deploying formidable security around a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting preparing for a summit later this week that Tehran is determined to use to bolster its international status. Some 110,000 police have been dispatched around...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
The conference would also involve Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The Foreign Ministry in Cairo updated the other three countries regarding its plans, Sunday, and said the contacts were continuing. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi first proposed a...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
The initiative, centered on a committee of four that also includes Turkey and Saudi Arabia, is the first foreign policy priority taken up by Mr. Morsi, the Islamist who became Egypt's first elected leader two months ago. Following failed efforts by...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Egypt's attorney general has referred an outspoken anti-Islamist former lawmaker for investigation by police prosecutors over claims he called for the downfall of the regime, according to a statement Sunday.
The charge added to concerns...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Asmaa Waguih No, it sure isn't the Age of Aquarius or of multicultural, politically correct love-ins. It's the age of revolutionary Islamism, especially Sunni Islamism. And you better learn to understand what this is all about, real fast. (Shia...
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Taiwan News
| 9 months ago
Egypt's attorney general is investigating a former liberal lawmaker and outspoken anti-Islamist on claims he called for the downfall of the regime. The complaint submitted against Mohamed Abu-Hamed by a former lawmaker accuses him of trying to...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Egypt ian President Mohamed Morsi will visit one of Iran's nuclear facilities this week, according to a Sunday statement from Mansour Haqiqatpour of the Iranian Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy. Share This Story Morsi is one of more...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Courtesy Since the beginning of the regional turmoil and the regime change in Egypt, there were Egyptian voices speaking of cancelling or reviewing the peace treaty with Israel. Lately, after the terrorist attack in Sinai that killed 16 Egyptian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Egypt on Sunday defended its idea of forming a regional contact group on Syria which would include Iran, a staunch Damascus ally, insisting that Tehran could "be part of the solution" to the Syrian crisis. President Mohamed Morsi proposed at this...
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Japan Times
| 9 months ago
A new reality and an alternative reality are shaping up in Egypt. President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood appear firmly in control...He also unilaterally amended the March 2011 constitution declaration and gave his office executive and...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
Egypt will have a new Constitution drafted by the end of September, the country's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, has said. Kadnil said the Constitution will be submitted to a nation-wide referendum, but did not specify a date for the referendum.
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called on Iran and Turkey to be included in an upcoming international meeting dedicated to ending the crisis in Syria. Leaders of 120 countries have gathered in Tehran to attend 16th summit of the Non-Aligned...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
An Egyptian man was reported to be in stable condition after he set fire to himself on Saturday outside the presidential palace in Cairo to protest against losing his job, police officials said. The employee at a state-owned electricity company had...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has retired Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, the head of the country's Supreme Military Council and Chief of Staff Sami Annan. Morsi also canceled constitutional amendments giving the military wide powers...The crossing...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
A demonstration outside Egypt's presidential palace against the Muslim Brotherhood attracted a few thousand protesters. Women were prominent in the group that gathered Friday, Egypt Independent reported. The protesters called on the Brotherhood to...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
Cordesman evidently believes that the U.S. should make it clear to the Iranians that they must abandon the program or else the American military will destroy it. Cordesman also believes that the United Sates should establish redlines and deadlines...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
In the first direct contact with his Israeli counterpart since taking office, Egypt's new defense minister defended his country's increased military presence in the Sinai Peninsula, saying it is needed to fight terrorism and is temporary, Egyptian...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
It said the Rafah border crossing, the Palestinian territory's only passage which bypasses Israel, would return to opening six days a week, like before the attack. Egypt allowed only a trickle of Palestinians to use the crossing to enter Gaza after...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
Breaking News The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported that some of the terrorists involved in the attack that killed 16 Egyptian border troops earlier this month, as well as some of the operatives who were killed in the subsequent crackdown on...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has no immediate plans to restore ties with Iran, his spokesperson said in comments published Saturday ahead of a landmark visit to Tehran later this month for a Non-Aligned Movement summit. "The matter [of restoring...
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Zawya Political
| 9 months ago
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has said that about 50 countries will participate in the upcoming summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran at a high level. So far, about 50 countries have announced that they will participate in...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is going to side with China and Iran to rebalance the region, Michael Hughes, foreign policy strategist at the Washington-based New World Strategies Coalition, told RT. Egypt has been dependent on American aid for...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
In the first significant protest against Egypt's new Islamist rulers, several thousand people rallied at Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square accusing President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood of trying to monopolize power. Chanting and waving...
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Time of India
| 9 months ago
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran next week. This will be his second meeting with Zardari this year, and the first after receiving a formal...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Egypt 's President Mohamed Morsi ordered the release of a journalist who was jailed for insulting him and used his self-declared legislative authority for the first time Thursday to protect freedom of the press. Share This Story Islam Afifi, the...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said they were respectful of his leadership despite calls for opposition marches Friday in Tahrir Square. Mohamed Abu-Hamed, a former Egyptian lawmakers, joined anti-revolution figure Tawfiq Okasha in...
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Al Jazeera
| 9 months ago
08 The organisers of Friday's protests are also seeking a probe into the funding behind the Muslim Brotherhood [Reuters] Opponents of Egypt's president's have scuffled with his supporters during a demonstration that posed the first test of Mohamed...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Several thousand Egyptians rallied Friday in the first significant protests against the country's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, accusing him and his Muslim Brotherhood group of trying to monopolize power.
The main protest in Cairo,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Several hundred protesters rallied on Friday in Cairo against President Mohamed Morsi, a much smaller turn out than hoped for by activists bent on challenging the country's first Islamist president. In Cairo's Tahrir Square, where hundreds of...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
Associated Press Hundreds of protesters are rallying on the streets in several Egyptian cities to denounce the country's Islamist president and his Muslim Brotherhood group. Friday's protests were the first attempt by Mohammed Morsi's opponents to...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
The editor of an independent Egyptian daily was released from jail late Thursday just hours after the country's Islamist president issued a law that bans the imprisonment of journalists accused of media-related offenses.
The case...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called his Israel i counterpart, Ehud Barak, to assure him that his country is committed to the 1979 Camp David Accords that ended three decades of conflict between the two countries, the Arab-language Al-Hayat newspaper reported...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Egypt's new President, Mohammed Mursi, wants to signal the new direction for his foreign policy with the countries he chooses to visit on his first trips abroad since taking office two months ago. Last week he travelled to Saudi Arabia, a long-time...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Handout The security problems that have developed in Sinai, and the way the Egyptian government is responding to them, could be navigated toward either opportunity or a crisis. Since Mohamed Morsy took office as the country's fifth president on June...
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Magic City Morning Star
| 9 months ago
For a change, I would like to see the enemies of Israel prove: 1. that people, currently known as Palestinians , are actually a national, ethnic or religious group, with long historic connections to Eretz-Israel, not just since 1948? Palestine,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
The report comes over speculation that relations with Egypt could break down over an Egyptian military build-up for counter-terror operations in Sinai, and Morsy's plan to attend the Non-Aligned Movement's conference taking place in Tehran at the end...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Egypt to keep open communication with Israel after the new Cairo government deployed forces to the Sinai Peninsula, the State Department said Thursday. Clinton spoke by telephone Wednesday with Egyptian...
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Newyork Times
| 9 months ago
Wielding his extensive legislative powers for the first time, Egypt 's president, Mohamed Morsi , on Thursday outlawed the pretrial detention of people accused of press crimes, effectively freeing one of his toughest critics, a newspaper editor who...
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Salem News
| 9 months ago
Captain Joe Cortina is a former airborne special operations officer and U.S...He subsequently embarked on missions as intelligence investigator and anti-terrorist advisor and traveled to different countries in the Middle East and Central America. His...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Wielding his extensive legislative powers for the first time, Egypt 's president, Mohamed Morsi , on Thursday outlawed the pretrial detention of people accused of press crimes, effectively freeing one of his toughest critics, a newspaper editor who...
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Arab News
| 9 months ago
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Friday 24 August 2012 THE marriage of the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to the Egyptian princess Fawzia, sister of King Farouk, did not last more than a year...This was the condition of the relationship between Cairo and...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
Egyptian revolutionaries of the youth uprising of January 2011 who succeeded in ousting Hosni Mubarak are once again organizing through social media and traditional media outlets (where allowed) to protest against the Morsi presidency and the Muslim...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
We might find that strange, but the recent holy month of Ramadan in Iraq was celebrated with bombings and shootings that killed 409 people and wounded 975 according to an August 20 Agence France Press report from Baghdad. Apparently if you are an...
