HOTLINES MARK RETURN OF EGYPT’S SECURITY AGENCIES
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this file photo taken Saturday, March 5, 2011, an Egyptian man, right, carries a sign that reads in Arabic: “Arab Republic of Egypt,…
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S SUDAN PEACE TALKS DELAYED; NEED FOR AGENDA CITED
In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, displaced people walk to find an unoccupied patch of ground where they can rest after arriving by river barge from Bor, some…
US ‘LOST BOY’ AMONG MANY FLEEING S SUDAN VIOLENCE
By BEN CURTIS In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, Phillip Madol, 33, left, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in…
TOMB OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BEER BREWER UNEARTHED
This image released by the Supreme Council of Antiquities shows colored inscriptions on a newly discovered tomb in Luxor, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. Egypt’s minister of antiquities said Japanese…
SOUTH SUDAN’S WARRING FACTIONS MEET IN ETHIOPIA
By ELIAS MESERET and BEN CURTIS Grang Demebiar, left, the son of late Sudanese politician John Garang, who is in the group supporting ousted Vice President Riek Machar, as Grang…
OPPOSITION: EX-RWANDAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF KILLED
By RAY FAURE and MICHELLE FAUL JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rwanda’s former spy chief has been found dead in a hotel in South Africa, and police said Thursday they have opened…
EGYPT AIRS WHAT IT CLAIMS IS TERROR CONFESSION
By MAGGIE MICHAEL FILE – In this July 13, 2012 file photo, then Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to reporters at the presidential palace in Cairo. An Egyptian judge says…
S SUDAN REBELS TAKE MOST OF STRATEGIC CITY OF BOR
By JASON STRAZIUSO The United States special envoy to South Sudan Donald Booth speaks to the media, as U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan Susan D. Page, left, listens in Juba,…