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The New York Times
| 5 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi appointed the prosecutor, Talaat Ibrahim Abdullah, in a Nov. 22 decree that set off protests across the country and prompted a political crisis because it also sought to exempt presidential edicts from judicial scrutiny. Mr.
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Foreign Affairs
| 5 months ago
Soldiers stand guard outside the Egyptian presidential palace. (Asmaa Waguih / Courtesy Reuters) It seems like deja vu all over again in Egypt. Recent clashes between supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and those who oppose his government's draft...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 5 months ago
If we can't beat constitution, amend it With the Islamist constitution backed by President Mohamed Morsi looking likely to pass this weekend's referendum, the opposition is looking to push amendments next year. By Tamim Elyan, Reuters / December 20,...
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Boston.com
| 5 months ago
Egypt's prosecutor general appointed by Islamist President Mohammed Morsi has withdrawn his resignation days after submitting it in a move expected to cause uproar ahead of a key vote on the country's draft constitution. Talaat Abdullah on Thursday...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Egypt's top election official overseeing a referendum to decide the fate of a controversial and polarising draft constitution, has resigned citing health reasons, two days ahead of the second phase of voting amid widespread allegations of...
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United Press International
| 5 months ago
Though experts on both side of the debate expect the referendum for Egypt's constitution to pass, opposition groups said they'll fight for years if necessary. Opposition marches by groups including the Revolutionary Socialists, the Strong Egypt Party,...
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Fox
| 5 months ago
Egypt A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum on an Islamist-drafted constitution they deeply oppose, residents say. The disenfranchisement...
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Al Jazeera English
| 5 months ago
Egyptian media that el-Balshi had undergone eye surgery. "The effort I put in over the past period has caused a sudden health crisis," the letter of resignation read. "As you know, it is impossible to carry out my mission with this health condition,"...
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Zawya Regional
| 5 months ago
Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 The Obama administration had little real idea of what to expect when Mohamed Morsi was elected as Egypt's president in June. However, the US came to the conclusion there was little option but to try to engage fully with the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
Video Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi dips his finger in indelible ink after casting his ballot during a referendum on the new Egyptian constitution at a polling station in Cairo December 15, 2012. Egyptians voted on Saturday on a constitution...
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BBC
| 5 months ago
There are two things that, right away, tell you you're in Alexandria; the vast Mediterranean Sea that dominates every aspect of life here and the quintessential black and orange Alexandria taxis...If there is one thing Alexandria has on Cairo it's an...
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The New York Times
| 5 months ago
With the preliminary results of a referendum on Egypt 's draft Constitution appearing to lean in the Muslim Brotherhood 's favor, President Mohamed Morsi 's now faces his most divisive challenge yet as he attempts to implement difficult economic...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
One of the top officials in charge of overseeing Egypt's vote on a contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution resigned Wednesday citing health problems, a judicial official said. The move follows boycotts of the referendum by judges and others...
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United Press International
| 5 months ago
Frustrated Egyptians who've turned to violence are called on to end their campaign as the country prepares for more voting, said Archbishop Desmond Tutu . Egyptians returns to the voting booth Saturday to cast ballots in a national referendum on a...
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The Economist
| 5 months ago
He had staked his own future and the reputation of his faction, the Muslim Brotherhood, on the outcome of a referendum to approve a new constitution. Half of the electorate voted on December 15th and the rest will do so on the 22nd, but it is already...
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Africa Headlines
| 5 months ago
The National Salvation Front, Egypt's main opposition coalition, has said that the constituent assembly does not have the authority to invite it for a dialogue as its role expired after writing the constitution. The Islamist-dominated assembly that...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Riot police stand guard in front Egypt's highest appeal court, during a protest denouncing president Mohammed Morsi and supporting the Wafd party, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. Egyptian Islamist groups are planning a mass protest in Alexandria on...
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The Globe & Mail
| 5 months ago
Video Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi dips his finger in indelible ink after casting his ballot during a referendum on the new Egyptian constitution at a polling station in Cairo December 15, 2012. Egyptians voted on Saturday on a constitution...
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Washington Post
| 5 months ago
The failed rally suggested the waning power of protests after two years of nearly nonstop demonstrations that began with the exhilaration of an 18-day revolution, but that have since devolved into bitter infighting among former allies. The lackluster...
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Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
55 Protesters said they would not accept the results of the vote if they showed a majority backed the charter [AFP] Opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have staged protests in Cairo against an Islamist-backed draft constitution that has...
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Arizona Republic
| 5 months ago
The Qaed Ibrahim mosque, revered by Alexandrines as the embodiment of their Mediterranean city's cosmopolitan heritage, has become a battleground between the two visions fighting over the future of Egypt, literally. When prominent ultraconservative...
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North Jersey
| 5 months ago
Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace and Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest a contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution, after the country's Justice Ministry ordered a probe into allegations of...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 5 months ago
S opposition has launched fresh protests in a last-minute bid to scuttle a draft constitution pushed by President Mohamed Morsi and his Islamist backers ahead of a second round of voting. Hundreds of people had already begun gathering in Cairo by...
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Boston.com
| 5 months ago
Egypt's Justice Ministry says it will assign judges to probe allegations of voting violations during the first leg of a referendum on a draft constitution. Ministry spokesmen said Tuesday that the inquiry will include charges that some polling...
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Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
The result is likely to embolden the opposition, which says the law is too Islamist. But they are unlikely to win this Saturday's second round, to be held in districts seen as even more sympathetic towards Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. Protesters broke...
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Denver Post
| 5 months ago
Tuesday to protest a highly contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution and to denounce violations that they claim were rife during a first round of voting on it. Since the country's current political crisis erupted more than three weeks ago, the...
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The Boston Globe
| 5 months ago
Egypt's opposition alliance says it is gearing up for mass rallies across the country against the highly contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution and to denounce violations that they claim were rife during a first round of voting. Tuesday's...
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United Press International
| 5 months ago
Egypt's opposition called for mass protests Tuesday against alleged election fraud in the first phase of a referendum on a planned Islamist-backed constitution. The main secular opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, led by Nobel Peace...
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Pak Tribune
| 5 months ago
Egypt's opposition called for nationwide protests against a constitution backed by President Mohamed Morsi, after a vote exposed deep divisions that could undermine his efforts to build consensus for tough economic measures. The president won a 57...
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Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
26 Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has called for the second round of the referendum to be scrapped [AFP] Egypt's opposition has called for mass protests in Cairo and elsewhere on Tuesday over alleged polling violations during the first round of...
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News 24
| 5 months ago
Egypt's prosecutor general has submitted his resignation, less than a month after he was swiftly sworn in by the president. If his resignation is accepted, it will be a blow to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who has been engaged in a power...
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Israel National News
| 5 months ago
The protesters converged on the prosecuting general's office at the High Court Sunday, refusing to leave until Talaat Abdallah resigned, said the report.
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
The Daily Star An Egyptian woman chant slogans denouncing President Mohammed Morsi during a protest supporting the Wafd party, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. Egypt: Outside a bicycle tire shop in the backstreets of Alexandria, the political divisions...
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Associated Press
| 5 months ago
The dismal showing also raises the question whether Egyptians have been turned off by the turmoil that has characterized the country's politics throughout the nearly two years since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime. Last Saturday's...
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Boston.com
| 5 months ago
Egypt's prosecutor general submitted his resignation Monday less than a month after he was swiftly sworn in by the Islamist president, who is embroiled in a power struggle with the judiciary. If Talaat Abdullah's resignation is accepted, it will be a...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 5 months ago
Judges to boycott second round of voting Judges in Egypt have announced they will not oversee the second round of voting in a referendum on a new constitution, said Hamdy Yassin, head of the Egyptian Administrative State Council's Judges Club. The...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Riot police stand guard in front Egypt's highest appeal court, during a protest denouncing president Mohammed Morsi and supporting the Wafd party, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. Egypt's new public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Mursi last...
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Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
We have again witnessed intense protests in Egypt following President Mohamed Morsi's expanding his sphere of authority by issuing new decrees within the framework of constitutional amendments. Alarmed by Morsi's expansion of his powers, people have...
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BBC
| 5 months ago
They said the violations included polling centres collecting votes without judges to oversee the process, civil employees illegally replacing the judges, ballot papers not being officially stamped, campaigning inside polling stations and Christian...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
A protester chains his hands during a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. Germany said Monday it has postponed debt relief for Egypt due to concerns about Cairo's commitment to democracy, as a minister expressed fears the country...
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International Business Times
| 5 months ago
Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sit in their camping area at Tahrir Square in Cairo Dec. In the districts that voted Saturday, which include the opposition strongholds of Cairo and Alexandria, 56.5 percent voted in favor, a...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
That could be good news for Egypt's nascent democracy and its battered economy if it encourages political rivals to fight their battles at the ballot box rather than in the streets, where clashes have alarmed both investors and tourists. Yet Mursi...
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Zawya Regional
| 5 months ago
Egypt's opposition is calling for mass protests on Tuesday after Islamists backing President Mohamed Morsi claimed victory in the first round of a referendum it alleges was riddled with polling violations. The opposition coalition, the National...
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Africa Headlines
| 5 months ago
The third round of national dialogue started Thursday 13/12/2012 at the presidential palace under the aegis of President Mohamed Morsi, the presidential spokesman said. Presidential Adviser Mahmoud Mekki chairs the round of talks that will focus on...
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The Independent
| 5 months ago
Egypt's main opposition bloc on Sunday alleged widespread fraud and called for mass protests after preliminary results showed supporters of a controversial draft constitution winning a solid majority in the first round of balloting. The call had the...
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SF Gate
| 5 months ago
Approval of Egypt's controversial draft constitution in an initial round of voting revealed the grass-roots power of Islamists even as the popularity of President Mohamed Morsi has dimmed in this increasingly polarized and economically struggling...
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Truthdig
| 5 months ago
Dec 16, 2012 When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile on Feb. 1, 1979, he set out to destroy the secular opposition forces, including the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringing down the shah.
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Africa Headlines
| 5 months ago
Topics A number of Egyptian rights groups have asked for the first round of the referendum on Egypt's new constitution to be repeated due to violations that marred it.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Egypt appeared braced for further uncertainty on Sunday after a close result in the first round of voting for a new constitution led to both sides claiming a moral victory. According to unofficial figures, the Muslim Brotherhood-backed constitution...
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Arab News
| 5 months ago
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Monday 17 December 2012 Last Update 17 December 2012 1:51 am Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi advised the Egyptian people to vote yes for the proposed constitution so as not to lose $ 20 billion promised by Qatar. Logically, it is not...
