By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, DC 27 January 2006 watch US Egypt Relations report The Bush administration had hoped that Egypt, a major U.S. ally and recipient of American economic and military aid

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By Leslie Boctor Cairo 01 August 2006 Roughly 96 percent of Egypt's land mass is made up of desert. Since the time of the pharaohs, the country has relied on a fertile narrow strip along the Nile River to support every aspect of social and economic

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By Challiss McDonough Sharm El-Sheikh 20 May 2006 A special meeting of the World Economic Forum has started in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, but weeks of political unrest and the arrests of

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By Leslie Boctor Cairo 24 April 2007 Earlier this week an Egyptian court sentenced an Egyptian Canadian man to 15 years in prison for spying on behalf of Israel. In the same week, Egyptian authorities charged another man with giving Israel confidenti

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By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 28 June 2007 The World Health Organization has been gathering information on diabetes for more than 20 years. Its findings show that diabetes is second only to asthma as the most common chronic childhood disease. New

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Election Surge by Egypt's Old Guard Frustrates Revolutionary Youth Egypt's revolution primarily was an uprising of the young -- a rejection of the old, stifling, decades-long government. So it is particularly galling to many activists that two of the

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Syria Cease-fire Poses New International Challenges The cease-fire in Syria largely took hold last Thursday, but only briefly. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have resumed some shelling of opposition strongholds, and the governments tanks a

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Two top Israeli envoys are in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to attend talks with Egyptian mediators, in a bid to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. Palestinian representatives are meeting with the Egyptians separately. Egyptian diplomats are conducting gruel

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Moscow Protests Get Legs with Social Media A Moscow march to protest election fraud unexpectedly drew tens of thousands of people on Saturday. With 40 percent of Russian adults online, many say social media, including the Russian social networking si

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Violence, Uncertainty in Egypt Could Affect US Policy Egypt's military rulers have now agreed to form a new government and promise to transfer power to a civilian body by July. But tens of thousands of protesters want an immediate end to military rul

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Social Media Transforms Debate Viewership As she gears up for this years election, Center College student Kelly Bolton, who's on the campus of the vice presidential debate, is getting political updates not from television or traditional news sources,

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Egyptians have another day off work Monday, amid word of a new timeline for implementing political reforms in the wake of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation. Egypt's military leaders called a public holiday Monday, amid strikes by bank tellers, st

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Special U.S. peace envoy George Mitchell is in Egypt as part of a push to resume Arab-Israeli peace talks. US Presidential envoy to Middle East George Mitchell delivers astatement to media after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in Cair

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Oscar-Nominated Film 'The Square' Examines Egypt Uprising, Aftermath The Egyptian uprising that unseated President Hosni Mubarak, a decades-long autocrat, is three years old. An unusual documentary, The Square, takes an intimate view of the events an

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Syria Issue Likely to Come Up During Obama's Mideast Trip With President Assad's forces still controlling Syrian air space, rebels want the United States to give them the weapons they say they need to finish the fight. When we are denied weapons, we

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By Parke Brewer Cologne 14 June 2006 Australian Harry Kewell is tripped up between Japan's Takashi Fukunshi (15) and Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (5) during the first half of their World Cup Group F match The 2006 World Cup football finals are the focus of at

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 02 December 2006 Leonardo Dicaprio and Djimon Hounsou co-star in a politically charged action-drama set during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990's. Alan Silverman has a look at the new film Blood Diamond. Leonardo Di

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By Sonja Pace Quneitra, Golan 08 February 2007 Syria's president has repeatedly called for a renewal of peace talks between his country and neighboring Israel, and some in Israel say now might be a good time to deal. Central to any negotiations will

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 12 February 2007 Thailand and Malaysia are to increase cross-border cooperation as part of efforts to end more than three years of separatist violence in the Southern-most provinces. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the agre

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The United States will send two senior officials to Syria within the next few days, possibly signaling a new direction in Middle East diplomacy by the Obama administration. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a statement in Jerusal

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