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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: Mohamed Morsi, Politics, Judges, Political Dissent, Elections
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Qatar cuts poet's life term to 15 years in jail; outcry persists
A Qatari poet jailed for verses deemed seditious and insulting to his nation's emir faces 15 years behind bars after an appeals court cut back on his prison term Monday. Human rights groups were outraged in November when a Qatari court first ruled...Tags: Tunisia, Arab Spring, Human Rights Watch, Politics, Amnesty International
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Rebel raids, Yankee occupation
Despite the stillness that fell across the killing fields of Williamsburg when the bloody battle of May 5, 1862 ended, the struggle to decide the town’s fate was far from over. Inside the houses lining Duke of Gloucester Street, the daughters...
Tags: Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Politics, Wars and Interventions, Executive Branch, Fort Monroe
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Survivalist themes in TV shows, movies tap into fear of the big fall
Frankly, it sounded pretty stupid. For reasons unknown, electricity fails worldwide, sending humanity into a post-technological free-fall. Weeds grow in the Capitol (very "Logan's Run"), young women defend their families with bows and arrows (very "Hunger...Tags: Downton Abbey (tv program), Flu, Revolution (tv program), Pretty Little Liars (tv program), Mad Men (tv program)
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Egypt protesters, police clash on Mubarak anniversary
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters demanding the departure of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi clashed with police outside his palace on Monday on the second anniversary of the overthrow of veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Dozens of youths threw rocks at the...Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Politics, Riots, Punishment, Cairo (Egypt)
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Artists in Egypt work in a tense atmosphere
CAIRO — The Muslim women in Marwa Adel's photographs are shadows, repressed by custom, religion, marriage and regret. While nude, the figures are obscured by sepia scrims, scrawled upon with stifling words — as if their true selves may never...
Tags: Fine Artists, Marriage, Mohamed Morsi, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture
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Iran's leader visits Cairo, easing long estrangement
CAIRO -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived to a red-carpet welcome and a kiss on the cheek by Egypt's new Islamist leader in a historic trip to strengthen relations between the two nations after decades of estrangement and suspicion. Iran...
Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Trips and Vacations, Hamas, Politics, Wars and Interventions
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Thousands protest in Egypt after week of deadly riots
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CAIRO -- Thousands of Egyptians protested Friday after a week of deadly riots that have shaken President Mohamed Morsi’s grip on the nation and spurred fears that fresh unrest may lead to economic collapse. [Updated at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 1: The...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Mohamed Morsi, Entertainment Events, Egyptian Protests (2012), Punishment
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Iran arrests more than a dozen journalists
TEHRAN - More than a dozen journalists were arrested in Iran on Sunday and Monday, reportedly detained for ties to foreign Farsi-language outlets, according to Iranian media. The wave of arrests marks a new crackdown on the media in Iran, five months...
Tags: Iran, Freedom of the Press, Police Arrests, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Politics
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Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and...
Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Hamas, Politics, Barack Obama, Kirsten Gillibrand
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‘Halo 4,’ ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ up for WGA video game award
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comMaster Chief and Mickey Mouse just snagged an invitation to one of Hollywood's glitzy awards season soirees. “Assassin's Creed III” ...... -
Review: 'Uprising' details the Egyptian revolution
That the Egyptian revolution of early 2011 was launched via Facebook is just one of the many extraordinary aspects of the whirlwind movement that effectively ended the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The long-simmering events that led to this...Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Arab Spring, Hosni Mubarak, Yemen
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