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Yemen top military official assassinatedTwo suspected Islamist militants shot dead a provincial military intelligence chief in Yemen on Saturday, a security official said, the latest in a series of assassinations in the impoverished state's lawless south and east. T More… |
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Tunisians call for Islamist government's ousterThousands of Tunisians took to the streets of the capital Tunis on Saturday to call for an end to an Islamist government they blame for the assassination of a leading secular politician 40 days earlier. It was the biggest demonstr More… |
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Egypt's govt 'nearing end of the road'To his critics, Ahmed Shafik is a typical autocrat consigned to history's dustbin by the Arab Spring - a military man turned politician who ended his career amid corruption allegations and fled to the Gulf. To his friends - an More… |
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Islamist threatens to attack Germany, MerkelA German Islamist has threatened to attack Berlin this summer and kill Chancellor Angela Merkel in a video posted on the Internet, a newspaper reported on Saturday. More… |
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Cash crisis, Arab ferment threaten Jordan's stabilityViolent protests that shocked Jordan this month have mostly subsided, but unprecedented chants for the "fall of the regime" suggested a deeper malaise in a kingdom so far spared the revolts reshaping the Arab world. Ange More… |
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Egypt court to hear case on Dec 4A Cairo administrative court has set a first hearing for December 4 in a case challenging President Mohamed Mursi's decree granting him extra powers, the court said in a statement on Monday. More… |
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Militants attack Egypt security HQ in SinaiIslamist militants attacked Egypt's security headquarters in northern Sinai on Sunday with a barrage of mortar bombs and machinegun fire and fought police elsewhere in the desert region, wounding three conscripts, security More… |
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Brotherhood's Morsy new Egypt presidentMohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood was elected president of Egypt with 51.7 percent of last weekend's run-off vote, defeating former general Ahmed Shafik, the state election committee said on Sunday. He succeeds Hosni Mubarak, who was More… |
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Islamist, ex-PM vie for mantle of Egypt's revoltThe Muslim Brotherhood and a military man close to ousted leader Hosni Mubarak courted defeated first-round candidates in Egypt's presidential election on Saturday, each trying to claim the mantle of the uprising before a run-off next month. More… |
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Moroccan PM slams king's entourageMorocco's prime minister has hit out at courtiers around King Mohammed in rare criticism that could signify the start of a confrontation between the Islamist-led government and powerful figures close to the palace. Moroccan authoriti More… |
