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Egypt orders trial of four policemen over killing of Islamist detainees - Reuters Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:24:15 GMT

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Egypt orders trial of four policemen over killing of Islamist detainees
Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prosecutor general on Tuesday ordered the trial of four police officers charged with killing 39 Muslim Brotherhood members in August after they were picked up in the crackdown that followed the military overthrow of President ...
Egypt: gunmen open fire at Coptic Christian wedding in CairoThe Guardian
Murders at weddings and attempted assassinations. Is this what Egypt has ...Christian Science Monitor
In Latest Killing of Egypt's Christians 2 Young Girls SlainDaily Beast
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GOP Senator Holds up $60M in Economic Aid to Egypt - ABC News Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:29:03 GMT

GOP Senator Holds up $60M in Economic Aid to Egypt
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President Barack Obama's first package of post-coup economic aid to Egypt is hitting a roadblock in Congress, where a key Republican senator is holding up the transfer of $60 million to a program to spur private investment in Egypt's flailing economy, ...

Egypt suffers more turmoil, the government drafts a protest law - Washington Times Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:55:06 GMT

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Egypt suffers more turmoil, the government drafts a protest law
Washington Times
On Saturday October 19, 2013 students of Al Azhar university, the oldest Islamic University in Egypt, organized a protest to condemn what they called 'a military coup' against President Mohammed Morsi and to demand the ouster of the current military ...
Egypt: Government may revise draft protest lawAsharq Alawsat English
Protest law timing inappropriate before parliamentary elections: Egypt govt ...Ahram Online
Egypt's New Protest Law Sparks ControversyAl-Monitor

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Egypt gunmen open fire on Coptic Christian wedding in Cairo - BBC News Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:08:27 GMT

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Egypt gunmen open fire on Coptic Christian wedding in Cairo
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Egypt's Coptic Christian community has been targeted by some Islamists who accuse the Church of backing the army's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in July. The unidentified attackers fired indiscriminately as people left the church. Continue ...

In Egypt, jihadist group Bayt al-Maqdis claims responsibility for bombing - Washington Post Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:21:13 GMT

In Egypt, jihadist group Bayt al-Maqdis claims responsibility for bombing
Washington Post
CAIRO — A shadowy jihadist group based in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility Monday for a weekend car bombing in a major Suez Canal city, underscoring the growing threat posed by Islamist extremists in Egypt nearly four months ...

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Egypt's lobby by proxy wields outsize influence in DC - Al Jazeera America Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:15:26 GMT

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Egypt's lobby by proxy wields outsize influence in DC
Al Jazeera America
News recently broke that the Obama administration would be cutting military aid to Egypt in response to the country's military coup and its crackdown against nonviolent protesters. These cuts will be limited and include $250 million in cash assistance ...

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Student protests at Egypt's al-Azhar challenge army - Reuters Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:12:23 GMT

Student protests at Egypt's al-Azhar challenge army
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of students from Egypt's al-Azhar University staged a third day of protests on Monday, in one of the boldest challenges to the army since it toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July. The demonstrations demanding ...

Egypt police to be tried over detainee tear-gas deaths - BBC News Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:03:15 GMT

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Egypt police to be tried over detainee tear-gas deaths
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Egypt's state prosecutor has referred four policemen to trial over the deaths of 37 Islamist detainees in August. The officers, including the deputy chief of a Cairo police station, have been charged with manslaughter. The detainees died as a result of ...

Letter from Egypt: hot dates - The Guardian Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:00:09 GMT

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Letter from Egypt: hot dates
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Fruitful harvest … incense burns over a pile of dates in a Cairo shop. Photograph: Aladin Abdel Naby/Reuters. The road runs north-east from Cairo alongside a wide irrigation canal. At intervals, a cable has been strung from bank to bank, and a small ...

Egypt's Pro-Military Media Decried, Defended - Voice of America Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:04:23 GMT

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Egypt's Pro-Military Media Decried, Defended
Voice of America
October 22, 2013. CAIRO — Egypt's media have moved, almost as one, to back the military-led government. While press freedom groups have condemned the stifling of a free media, some defend the one-sided coverage as key to Egypt's "war on terror."