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Sermons on Syria fan Mideast sectarian flames
ReutersBy Mariam Karouny and Alastair Macdonald BEIRUT/CAIRO, June 7 (Reuters) - Sunni Muslim preachers condemned Iran and its "Satanic" Shi'ite allies in Friday sermons after a battle in Syria that has inflamed sectarian rhetoric which risks spreading violence...Tags: Tripoli (Libya), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Arab Spring, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Egypt-Ethiopia water dispute escalates after threatening remarks
CAIRO — A battle over water has turned into a war of colorful rhetoric between Ethiopia and Egypt over the flow of the Nile, which begins in the African highlands but keeps Egypt from being swallowed entirely by desert. An ambitious Ethiopian...
Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Ethiopia, Cairo (Egypt), Government, Hosni Mubarak
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Protests in Turkey focus on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
ISTANBUL, Turkey — What began as local dispute about threatened green space in this metropolis has morphed into a nationwide movement protesting what critics say is the heavy-handed style and increasingly Islamist agenda of Prime Minister Recep...
Tags: Arab Spring, Government, Religion and Belief, Media Industry, Dwayne Johnson
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Israel says it has struck deal to resettle Eritrean migrants
Reuters* Some 60,000 African migrants have reached Israel * About 35,000 Eritreans among those who trekked from Egypt * Israel has built border fence to keep migrants out By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM, June 3 (Reuters) - An unidentified country has agreed to...Tags: Human Rights, Illegal Immigrants, Migration, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Court ruling not expected to derail Egyptian parliament
CAIRO — Egypt’s highest court ruled Sunday that both the country’s upper house of parliament and the committee that drafted the nation’s constitution had been elected illegally, but the impact of the decision appeared to be largely...
Tags: Mohamed ElBaradei, Mohamed Morsi, Upper House, Parliament, Politics
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Egypt parliament ruled illegal, but to stay on
ReutersCAIRO, June 2 (Reuters) - Egypt's supreme constitutional court ruled as illegal the law by which the upper house of parliament was elected but said that the chamber would not be dissolved until a new parliament is in place, judicial sources said. The...Tags: Upper House, Parliament, Politics
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Letters: Graffiti in Egypt is nothing new
Re "Giving a bad name to Chinese tourists," May 29 Just like the Chinese boy who scratched his name on an ancient Egyptian temple wall, people have been leaving graffiti on Egyptian monuments for quite some time now. In the early 6th century BC,...Tags: Travel, Tourism and Leisure
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When Obama says, 'Force alone cannot make us safe'
One of the most important parts of President Obama's landmark speech on May 23 at the National Defense University is receiving little attention. It is his call for "a strategy that reduces the wellspring of extremism," his recognition that extremism is...
Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, U.S. Military, Government
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Roiled by mystery GMO wheat, U.S. races to reassure buyers
ReutersCHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials raced to quell global alarm on Thursday over the first-ever discovery of an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat, working to figure out how the rogue grain escaped from a field trial a decade ago....Tags: China, Manila (Philippines), Consumers, Singapore, Police Investigations
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Six Mexican tourists killed in bus accident in Egypt's Sinai
ReutersCAIRO, May 31 (Reuters) - Six Mexican tourists were killed and 10 others wounded in a bus accident on Friday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, medical and security sources said. The tourists were traveling on a bus near Saint Catherine's monastery in central... -
Egypt drags its feet in privatisation tussle
Reuters* Court rulings to renationalise plunge companies into legal limbo * Officials say implementing rulings is complicated * Critics say government stalling on implementation * Dozens more rulings pending By Maggie Fick CAIRO, May 29 (Reuters) - A thorny...Tags: Punishment, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Morsi, Economy, Business and Finance, Cairo (Egypt)
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Egypt tackles fuel use, smugglers to stave off summer crisis
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Egypt will cut exports of natural gas and tell major industries to slow output this summer to avoid an energy crisis and stave off political unrest, the chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Company (EGPC) told Reuters. Tarek El-...Tags: Parties and Movements, BP Plc, Qatar, Hosni Mubarak, BG Group Plc.
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