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    5 Killed in Muslim-Christian Clashes in Egypt
    Egyptian security officials say five people have been killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians just outside Cairo. Investigators say they are waiting for autopsy reports to confirm how the five men were killed. Officials say the clashes on Saturday started when young Muslims drew upside down crosses on an Islamic institute. Christian onlookers began quarrelling...
    April 6, 2013 22:45
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    The tunnel of love: Egyptian bride smuggled into Gaza via undergound passageway to marry her Palestinian groom
    It was a very modern day version of Romeo and Juliet. Young lovers Emad al-Malalha, 21, and Manal Abu Shanar, 17, were determined to be wed. The only problem was he is Palestinian and lives in the Gaza Strip and she is Egyptian and border authorities refused to give her a permit to cross the border. Undeterred, the couple, who had been engaged for six months and forced...
    March 24, 2013 8:18
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    Egypt Islamists say UN women text threat to society
    Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has warned that a UN document demanding global standards to prevent violence against women is un-Islamic and would lead to the “complete degradation of society.” Governments and NGOs from around the world are to wrap up two weeks of discussions in New York on ways to end violence against women and children with the aim of reaching...
    March 15, 2013 23:29
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    Egyptian court confirms death sentences given to 21 football fans for role in stadium riot as rival supporters torch game’s HQ
    Fans of Cairo’s Al-Ahly club have stormed Egypt’s Soccer Federation headquarters and and set it on fire in anger after a court acquitted seven of nine police officials on trial for their alleged role in the Port Said stadium riot last year. The Egyptian interior ministry declared a state of emergency amid claims that jihadists could attack police, according...
    March 9, 2013 21:35
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    The Harlem Sheiks: Egyptian protesters perform craze outside headquarters of President Morsi
    Hundreds of protesters gathered at the headquarters of Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi today and performed the latest viral dance craze – the Harlem Shake. About 400 young men, some in funny costumes and others bare-chested, rallied in Cairo in front of the main office of Morsi’s group, The Muslim Brotherhood. The flash mob danced in protest...
    March 1, 2013 22:24
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    Four Egyptian students arrested for indecency after doing Harlem Shake in their underwear
    Egyptian police have arrested four students who stripped to their underwear and publicly danced the ‘Harlem Shake’ – a convulsive dance style made popular by an online video which has gone viral.  The four pharmaceutical students shocked residents in Cairo when they removed most of their clothes and filmed themselves performing the thrusting moves, a...
    February 25, 2013 15:56
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    Islamists rally against violence in Egypt
    Thousands of Islamists protested in Cairo on Friday against violence that has marred anti-government demonstrations, showing support for President Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood politician elected head of state last year. The “Together against Violence” rally was called by a hardline Salafi Islamist group that waged an armed revolt against the state...
    February 16, 2013 11:38
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    Egypt court suspends YouTube over anti-Islam film
    An Egyptian court ordered the suspension of online video service YouTube for a month on Saturday for broadcasting a film insulting the Prophet Mohammad, state media reported. The country’s administrative court ordered the ministries of communication and investment to block YouTube, owned by Google, inside Egypt because it had carried the film “Innocence of...
    February 9, 2013 22:04
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    Aide to Egyptian President Morsi claims Holocaust was a myth invented by the U.S. and that six million ‘dead’ Jews had simply moved to America
    A senior figure close to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi provoked outrage today after claiming the Holocaust was a myth invented by the United States. Fathi Shibab-Eddim, who is responsible for appointing editors of all the state-run newspapers, claimed the six million Jews killed by Hitler had actually been moved to America. His comments came as the world marked Holocaust...
    January 30, 2013 20:30
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    Cairo affirms sentence for 7 Copts over anti-Islam film
    A Cairo tribunal on Tuesday upheld death sentences passed on seven Egyptian Coptic Christians in absentia for their involvement in a movie that ridiculed the Prophet Mohammed, a judicial source said. The accused, including the director of the movie that triggered outrage across the Muslim world when it surfaced last September, are currently living in the United States. Terry...
    January 29, 2013 21:58
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    Clashes erupt after Egypt court sentences 21 to death in football riot
    An Egyptian judge sentenced 21 people to death Saturday for their roles in a football game riot last year, a ruling that sparked deadly clashes between security forces and relatives of the convicted. ThePort Saidfootball incident left 74 people dead and 1,000 others injured. Soon after the sentencing in the nation’s worst stadium disaster, protests erupted outside...
    January 26, 2013 20:39
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    Mother and her seven children jailed for 15 years in Egypt after converting back to Christianity from Islam
    A mother and her seven children have been jailed for 15 years for converting back to Christianity from Islam in Egypt. Nadia Mohamed Ali was raised a Christian but converted to Islam 23 years ago when she married Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab Mustafa. Following his death, she planned to convert back to her original faith, along with the rest of her family. Seven other people, who...
    January 18, 2013 8:29
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    Egyptians vote on controversial draft charter
    Egyptians voted on Saturday in the final round of a referendum on a new constitution championed by President Mohamed Morsi and his Islamist allies against fierce protests from the secular-leaning opposition. From early morning, men and women filed into polling stations in separate lines to cast their ballots, AFP correspondents in Giza, in southwest Cairo, reported. The...
    December 22, 2012 14:38
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    Egyptian Islamists stage rally as referendum looms
    Thousands of chanting Islamists rallied on Friday in support of an Islamic vision of Egypt’s future on the eve of a constitutional referendum that has divided the most populous Arab nation. The Muslim Brotherhood called for the mass gathering in Alexandria to protest after a violent confrontation between Islamists and the liberal, secular opposition last week ended...
    December 21, 2012 16:51
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    November 30, 2012 13:28
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    At least 60 dead in Egypt’s protests
    Egyptian security officials say at least 50 protesters and 10 policemen have died in this week’s anti-government protests, The Associated Press reports. They say the death toll was likely to significantly rise as more reports come in from hospitals and morgues around the country. They also say that at least 750 policemen and 1,500 protesters have been wounded in...
    January 29, 2011 14:59