IRANIAN TOURISTS IN EGYPT SHOWCASE WARMING TIES
By HAGGAG SALAMA FILE — In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center right,…
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HAMAS RE-ELECTS MASHAAL AS ITS LEADER
By SARAH EL DEEB and KARIN LAUB FILE – In this this Aug. 29, 2009 file photo, Khaled Mashaal, Hamas leader, center, attends his father’s funeral at a Mosque in…
AP INTERVIEW: EGYPT SAYS IRANIAN POSE NO RISK
By MARIAM EZZAT Egypt’s minister of tourism, Hesham Zaazoua, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, March 28, 2013. Egypt’s tourism minister…
SYRIAN OPPOSITION PLUNGES INTO DISARRAY
By BEN HUBBARD FILE – In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 file photo, Syrian opposition coalition leader Mouaz al-Khatib speaks during a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State John…
FRANCE CONFIRMS DEATH OF AL-QAIDA CHIEF ABOU ZEID
GREG KELLER French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and Mali’s Foreign Minister Tieman Coulibaly, right, pose for journalists after a meeting in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP…
REMADE MIDEAST POSES NEW PERILS FOR OBAMA ON TRIP
By MATTHEW LEE Students of Estella’s school for bakery and pastry making, work on an image depicting U.S. President Barack Obama made out of chocolate in Givat Shmuel, central Israel,…
COUSIN OF LIBYA’S GADHAFI ARRESTED IN EGYPT
By AMIR MAKAR Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Libya’s former dictator Moammar Gadhafi, gestures to supporters from a car after being arrested in Cairo, Egypt, March 19. 2013. Egyptian security…
EGYPT VIGILANTES HANG 2 THIEVES IN PUBLIC
By AYA BATRAWY EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT — Egyptian men surround the bodies of two men who were beaten and hung by vigilantes after being accused of theft in Samanod,…