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Outside View: U.S. should step back in Egypt, elsewhere
Jul 22, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt presents unpleasant choices and is emblematic of challenges confronting U.S foreign policymakers across the globe. U.S. policy should adjust in ways once ...
Egypt in turmoil faces looming food crisis
Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)
Egypt faces severe food shortages in the months ahead and its military rulers are pinning their hopes on a bumper wheat crop to see the country through. There a...
Israel OKs Egyptian forces in Sinai as violence swells
Jul 16, 2013 (UPI)
Israel has given strife-torn Egypt the green light to deploy two infantry battalions in the lawless Sinai Peninsula to counter a surge of attacks by Islamist mi...
Egypt rival rallies planned as tensions soar
Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)
Activists for and against ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have called rival rallies for the first Friday of Ramadan, as tensions soar over the army's ov...
Commentary: Mideastern potpourri
Jul 12, 2013 (UPI)
Like it or not, seemingly endless Middle Eastern crises and wars and civil wars were triggered by the recognition of the state of Israel May 14, 1948, with Davi...
Street protests spread chaos across Brazil
Jul 11, 2013 (UPI)
Protesters brought Brazil's main highways nearly to a standstill amid persistent public anger over alleged misuse of public funds and neglect of basic services....
Algerian bloodbath haunts Egypt's revolution
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
The specter of Algeria's ferocious 10-year civil war in the 1990s between its military and Islamists robbed of a landmark electoral victory hangs over Egypt in ...
Outside View: Obama has little choice but to back Egyptian military
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
In Egypt, the United States is once again confronted with a tough choice between backing the champions of the status quo ante -- a military-endorsed regime that...
Rights groups slam Egypt army's 'excessive' use of force
Jul 10, 2013 (AFP)
Human rights groups condemned on Wednesday the use of "excessive" force by Egyptian security forces and called for an independent investigation into clashes out...
Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's new vice president
Jul 09, 2013 (AFP)
Liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who was named as Egypt's new vice president for foreign affairs on Tuesday, is a respected former head of UN nuclea...
Close US-Egypt military ties forged on American soil
Jul 09, 2013 (AFP)
The United States has spent billions in aid to Egypt, but the education of thousands of officers at elite American academies is equally vital to the close milit...
Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt's new prime minister
Jul 06, 2013 (AFP)
Liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, who was named as Egypt's new prime minister on Saturday, is a former head of UN nuclear watchdog the International ...
UN rights chief alarmed by Egypt arrests
Jul 05, 2013 (AFP)
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay Friday expressed alarm about reported mass arrests of key members of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood after the military ousted pres...
Egypt army urges conciliation ahead of Morsi rallies
Jul 05, 2013 (AFP)
Egypt's military appealed for conciliation and warned against revenge attacks, after it toppled president Mohamed Morsi, as police rounded up senior Islamists a...
US hopes aid will lure Egyptian army back to democracy
Jul 05, 2013 (AFP)
Two days after Mohamed Morsi was deposed, Washington has still not termed his ouster "a coup," hoping warnings of cuts in US aid will prove enough leverage to f...
Japan gears up for decisive election
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
Campaigning began Thursday in an election expected to strengthen Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's control over parliament, ushering in the stability he needs to fix ...
Tunisia's Marzouki says no risk of Egypt contagion
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
President Moncef Marzouki on Thursday ruled out the risk of Tunisia's elected authorities being deposed, after Egypt's army ousted its head of state, while stre...
Outside View: When governments become destructive
Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)
July Fourth, marks the United States' Independence Day. The central celebrated document, the Declaration of Independence, that rejected British rule, was the ma...
Malaysian P.M. confirms sedition act is to go
Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says he will honor his pledge made last year to abolish the controversial Sedition Act but warns protesters against destabi...
Egypt's power crisis: Army's still the final arbiter
Jul 02, 2013 (UPI)
President Mohamed Morsi has rejected an army ultimatum he and his political rivals resolve a violent power struggle or face military intervention by Wednesday. ...
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