EGYPT COURT SETS MAY 11 FOR MUBARAK RETRIAL
Egypt’s deposed President Hosni Mubarak attends a hearing session in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 15, 2013. Mubarak will remain in custody on new corruption charges…
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EGYPT’S CHRISTIAN POPE BLASTS ISLAMIST PRESIDENT
By HAMZA HENDAWI FILE – In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 file photo, Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope, Tawadros II speaks to The Associated Press in the province of Assiut, Egypt.…
DEATH TOLL IN EGYPT’S SECTARIAN CLASHES RISES TO 2
Egyptian Christians grieve during a funeral service at the Saint Mark Coptic cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, April 7, 2013. Several Egyptians including 4 Christians and a Muslim were killed…
KERRY MEETS ISRAELI LEADERS TO PUSH MIDEAST PEACE
By BRADLEY KLAPPER and JOSEF FEDERMAN Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday April 7, 2013.…
AL-QAIDA LEADER URGES MUSLIMS TO UNITE IN STRUGGLE
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF FILE — In this undated file frame grab from video provided by IntelCenter, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, shows Al-Qaida’s leader Ayman Al-Zawahri in a…
EGYPT PROSECUTOR ORDERS NEW MUBARAK INVESTIGATION
FILE – In this Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits during his meeting with Emirates foreign minister, not pictured, at the Presidential palace in…
WOMAN IN BERLUSCONI SEX TRIAL DENOUNCES TACTICS
By NICOLE WINFIELD and LUCA BRUNO Karima el-Mahroug, also known as Ruby, a Moroccan woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s sex-for-hire trial, wipes away a tear as she…
US EMBASSY IN CAIRO DELETES TWEET ON JON STEWART
By MATTHEW LEE FILE – In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, Jon Stewart speaks during a taping of “The Daily Show with John Stewart”, in New York. The U.S.…