Displaying items 61-72 of 123
» View wsbt.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
•
Next >
-
Egypt detains 7 alleged members of black-clad youth group
ReutersCAIRO, April 20 (Reuters) - Egypt's state security prosecution on Saturday ordered the detention of 7 people for 15 days on charges of belonging to the "Black Bloc," a black-clad youth group opposed to Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. Hundreds of...Tags: Egypt, Globalization, Politics, Suez Canal, Prosecution
-
Leadership vacuum, not locusts, is Egypt's greatest plague
A plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. They noted that locust swarms show up in the spring every...Tags: Police Arrests, Religion and Belief, Entertainment Events, Moody's Corporation, Entertainment
-
Egypt's Mursi fails to secure loan, grain from Russia
ReutersSOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi asked Russia on Friday for grain and a loan to help ease a deepening economic crisis but secured neither at talks with President Vladimir Putin. Russian officials said only that Moscow would...Tags: Imports, Government, Muammar Gaddafi, Politics, International Organizations
-
Egypt's Mubarak ordered back to prison
CAIRO -- Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ordered back to Tora Prison after a medical report Wednesday determined that he no longer needed advanced treatment at a military hospital along the Nile. A probe by the general prosecutor’s...
Tags: Egypt, Punishment, Prisons, Military Justice, Hosni Mubarak
-
'Arab Spring,' once an inspiration, now a more cautionary tale
Two years ago, the "Arab Spring" that deposed dictators and demagogues was an inspiration to hundreds of millions of repressed souls across the Middle East who yearned for a say in how they were governed. Today, with the Egyptian economy in ruins,...
Tags: Lebanon, Revolutions, Government, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts
-
Egyptian judge withdraws from Mubarak retrial
CAIRO -- The judge in the murder retrial of Hosni Mubarak abruptly withdrew from the case Saturday, sending the matter to another court and delaying the deposed president’s fate over the actions of his police and army during the 2011 Egyptian...Tags: Human Rights, Jihad, Murder, Civil Rights, Politics
-
Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists
CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age of bloodshed...Tags: Egypt, Philosophy, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Science and Technology
-
Egypt president uses tweets to convey kinder, gentler side
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi, at least for the moment, appears to be channeling his softer side. The beleaguered Egyptian leader this week withdrew criminal complaints filed by his office against journalists and began nightly chats with...Tags: Journalism, Media Industry, Human Rights, Freedom of the Press, Egypt
-
At least five killed in Egyptian sectarian clashes
CAIRO – At least five people were killed Saturday in clashes between Muslims and Christians, raising new questions over whether President Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist-led government can calm sectarian tensions amid Egypt’s broader...
Tags: Egypt, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Islam, Hosni Mubarak
-
Egypt moves to block access to pornography
CAIRO — Egypt’s Islamist-controlled government said this week it is moving to block the country’s access to pornography -- one website at a time. Sherif Hashem, deputy head of the national telecom regulatory authority, announced that...Tags: Media Industry, Government, Politics, Hosni Mubarak, Pornography
-
Egyptian judge suspends upcoming elections as disarray deepens
TRIPOLI, Libya — Egypt slipped further into political disarray Wednesday when a judge suspended upcoming parliamentary elections and referred the country’s much-criticized electoral law to the highest court. An administrative judge struck...
Tags: Revolutions, Political Dissent, Politics, Justice System, Parliament
-
U.S. says free speech 'stifled' as Egypt satirist is investigated
The U.S. has “concerns that freedom of expression is being stifled” in Egypt after the questioning of an irreverent television satirist frequently compared to American comedian Jon Stewart, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland...
Tags: Jon Stewart, Egypt, Freedom of the Press, Politics, U.S. Department of State
Apr 20, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 20, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 13, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 12, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 1, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Mohamed Morsi topic gallery.