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Egypt's defence minister led mourners in a military funeral on Tuesday for 16 soldiers killed by Islamist militants near the border with Israel in the deadliest such attack in decades. The minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, was joined by senior government officials and generals in a brief procession that followed the caskets, wrapped in the military flag, after prayers. The
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Egypt's new prime minister, Hisham Qandil, will announce a cabinet on Thursday, almost a month after President Mohamed Morsi took office amid a power struggle with the military, state media reported on Saturday. Qandil, a former irrigation minister, has been in consultations with candidates since Morsi appointed him last week to head the new government, which must carry out the
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President Mohamed Mursi met on Wednesday morning with the new appointed prime minister, Hisham Kandil, at the presidential palace, reported the Middle East News Agency. The meeting comes in light of consultations on the new government which Kandil is tasked with forming. -
Cairo - Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi met Palestinian Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on Thursday, a day after hosting his rival Mahmud Abbas amid scrutiny over how Cairo's policy on the Palestinians may change. Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood is ideologically related to Hamas, affirmed his support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip which is ruled by Hamas, Meshaal said after
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Cairo - Egypt's former vice president Omar Suleiman, long-time spy chief to deposed president Hosni Mubarak, died on Thursday in the United States, the official MENA news agency reported. "Former vice president General Omar Suleiman died in the early hours of Thursday in a hospital in the United States," the agency said. -
El-Arish - Two American tourists and their Egyptian guide who were abducted by a Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last week were released unharmed on Monday, a security official and the kidnapper told The Associated Press. Reverend Michel Louis, 61, and 39-year-old Lissa Alphonse, both Boston-area residents, had been kidnapped from a bus on Friday along with their guide, Haytham
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Egyptian Bedouin tribesmen on Monday released two US tourists who had been held since Friday in the Sinai Peninsula, a senior security official told AFP. "The two have been released after successful negotiations with the Bedouins and they are now in the North Sinai security headquarters," the official said. The negotiations were being mediated by Bedouin elders, the official said,
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An Egyptian journalist detained in Khartoum for nearly two weeks arrived in Cairo on Monday with President Mohamed Morsi who secured her release during talks with Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir. "Shaimaa Adil arrived in Cairo with President Mohamed Morsi," the official MENA news agency reported. Shaimaa Adil flew into Cairo on board the presidential plane from Addis Ababa where Morsi
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Egypt's prosecutor general on Monday ordered convicted former strongman Hosni Mubarak back to prison nearly a month after he was moved to a military hospital in Cairo after reportedly suffering a stroke. Abdel Meguid Mahmud "has issued an order to transfer former president Hosni Mubarak from the Maadi Armed Forces Hospital to Tora prison hospital after an improvement in his
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Cairo - Egypt's new president has ordered a fresh investigation into the killing of anti-government protesters over the past 16 months, starting with the uprising that unseated longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. A presidential decree issued late Ton hursday orders a review of investigations and trials related to the killing of about 1 000 protesters. Egypt's official news agency reports that
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Cairo - Three bearded men approached a university student and his girlfriend during a romantic rendezvous in a park and ordered them to separate because they weren't married, according to security officials. An argument broke out, ending with one of the men fatally stabbing the student. The 25 June attack has alarmed Egyptians concerned that with an Islamist president in
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Hundreds of Egyptians have been making their way to the presidential palace in Cairo to air their grievances and demand solutions directly from newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi. For days they have flocked to the palace in the upmarket neighbourhood of Heliopolis after Morsi, who was sworn in as Egypt's first civilian president on Saturday, said his doors would be open
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A Mursi-led Egypt is the best guarantee that the Gulf States, Israel and the US will remain happy. The electoral victories of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt's parliamentary elections from November 2011 to January 2012 were hardly surprising. The decline brought about by the current globalisation of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called
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Cairo — Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi is looking at ways to return lawmakers to office after parliament was dissolved, his spokesman said Monday, putting the new leader on a likely collision course with the country's powerful military only days after he was sworn in. Morsi repeated his oath of office in the university's gigantic lecture hall and lavishly praised the
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Cairo - Egypt's ruling military council will say on Saturday that it is fulfilling its pledge made when it took over from ousted leader Hosni Mubarak to transfer power to an elected president, according to a statement obtained by Reuters. "The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces announced on February 11, 2011 it was not an alternative to legitimacy sought
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Cairo - Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi took the oath of office on Saturday to become the country's first freely elected leader and its first head of state since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year. "I swear by the Almighty God to sincerely preserve the republican order and to respect the constitution and law, and completely care for the people's interest," he
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Egypt has seized a large weapons consignment, including Grad rockets, that had been smuggled from Libya and could have been headed to the Gaza Strip, press reports said on Saturday. The haul, which included 138 Grad rockets and a further 139 Grad warheads, was made in the Mediterranean coastal town of Marsa Matruh, not far from the Libyan border, Egyptian
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Islamist Mohamed Morsi praised Egypt's Muslims and Christians alike Friday and symbolically swore himself in as the country's first elected civilian president, playing up people power before a huge throng at Tahrir Square. Crowds had packed the square from early in the day for the president-elect's appearance on the eve of his official swearing-in. Morsi, who won a run-off election
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Islamist Mohamed Morsi paid tribute on Friday to the people of Egypt, Muslims and Christians alike, before a huge crowd at Cairo's Tahrir Square, birthplace of the revolt that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. Morsi, who won a run-off election earlier this month against Mubarak's last premier, was received with applause by the tens of thousands of people gathered in the square.
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Cairo — The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi faces a host of daunting political hurdles after being officially declared Egypt's first freely-elected president on Sunday. "Due to ongoing political jockeying between the Brotherhood and the ruling military council, it remains uncertain until now what state institution Morsi will swear the oath of office in front of," Abdel Ghaffar Shukr, founder of
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Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi pushed ahead with selecting a government, as a court delivered a blow to the ruling military, suspending its powers to arrest civilians. Egypt's first civilian president, and its first elected leader since an uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak early last year, still has to contend with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The SCAF, which
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The election of an Islamist president in Egypt is turning longstanding U.S. policy in the Mideast inside out: The Obama administration is relieved that the candidate representing three decades of close partnership with the United States lost. The United States is now set to embrace a religious-based former opposition leader who does not share many U.S. goals, perhaps including the
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Israeli media expressed almost unanimous concern on Monday about the victory of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi in Egypt's presidential election, warning of a difficult new reality. "Darkness in Egypt," read the headline of the top-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper, with commentator Smadar Peri writing inside the newspaper that Morsi's victory was a dangerous development for Israel. "From our standpoint, when
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Cairo - Egypt's president-elect Mohammed Morsi on Sunday insisted that the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak would continue until its goals were met. He was making his first address after being declared the country's next leader. The speech was broadcast live on state television, hours after the election commission declared him the winner of this month's run-off vote a deeply
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Cairo - The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi on Sunday became Egypt's first freely elected president, the election commission said. There had been fears that million of his Islamist loyalists may react with fury if the run-off went to Ahmed Shafik, a former general and ally of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Morsi won by a narrow margin - 51.7% of the
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