NPR | In Post-Revolution Egypt, Fears Of Police Abuse Deepening NPR Egypt's police force was the underpinning of former President Hosni Mubarak's iron-fisted regime, and it quickly became the enemy of Egypt's 2011 revolution. Yet there has been little to no reform of the police force to date. Human rights groups say ... |
NBCNews.com (blog) | Egypt cancels parliamentary vote dates after court ruling Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's election committee has scrapped a timetable under which voting for the lower house of parliament should have begun next month, state media reported on Thursday, following a court ruling that threw the entire polling process ... Egypt's election commission suspends parliamentary election after court order Analysis: Why Egypt's Morsi has accepted court election rebuff Egypt election body scraps voting dates - state TV |
BBC News | UPDATE 4-Bedouin kidnap and quickly release Egypt Exxon boss Reuters CAIRO, March 7 (Reuters) - Bedouin gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula seized and briefly held the country boss of U.S. oil major ExxonMobil and his wife on Thursday, in an attack that highlights increasing risks oil firms face across North Africa and ... British tourists freed hours after being kidnapped in Egypt Brits Kidnapped By Bedouin In Egypt Freed Egypt 'kidnapping': Two British tourists are freed |
Voice of America | Egypt's police widen protests and strikes against president and Muslim ... Washington Post For decades, Egypt's police aggressively targeted the Brotherhood and other Islamist groups that were once outlawed. Policemen say they are now being forced to confront protesters angry with Mubarak's successor, President Mohammed Morsi, and his ... One protester killed in clashes in Egypt's Port Said Egypt Braces for More Unrest Over Football Riot Case Egypt: Parliamentary elections suspended |
NPR (blog) | Egypt's Locust Plague Threatens Israel NPR (blog) According to Egypt's Al-Ahram, at least 20 swarms of locusts, each comprising up to 80 million insects, have invaded Egypt over the past three months, and there are more believed to be waiting in the wings, so to speak, along the country's southern ... A Locust Plague, Shy of Biblical Proportions, in Israel Massive Ass Swarm of Locusts Descends on Egypt and Israel 30 million locusts swarm Egypt: Spring migration or God's plague? |
NEWS.com.au | Egypt seeks new ways to settle fraud cases Aljazeera.com Ahmed Ezz, an Egyptian businessman and politician, has been sentenced to 37 years in jail and fined $296m for misusing public funds. The penalty was the Egyptian court's toughest yet for any businessman operating during deposed President Hosni ... Egypt Shies Away From Economic Overhauls Egypt hungry for 'food revolution' Raped Egypt Women Wish Death Over Life as Crimes Ignored |
Tribesmen release two Britons kidnapped in Egypt Sinai Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Bedouin gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula have released two British tourists who were kidnapped earlier on Thursday as they drove from Cairo to the beach resort of Sharm el Sheikh, security and tribal sources said. The British pair ... |
What is America getting out of aid to Egypt? Fox News Eight as fast and gift we give people who want something an exchange or are we getting anything from Egypt when -- -- Henry Kissinger negotiated those first. Israeli Egyptian agreements ceasefire and peace agreements we got -- for the money we gave up. |
RealClearPolitics | Alarm as Wolf Nears Egypt's Door RealClearPolitics WASHINGTON -- As Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood government slides toward the financial cliff, what's the right policy for the United States? That's becoming an urgent question, as Egypt's financial reserves decline and the country nears a new breaking point. 'We will not let Egypt fall' Why Egypt's Survival Depends on Western Investment Hamas: Egypt Never Steered Us into Peace with Israel |
Court suspends Egypt's parliament election NBCNews.com (blog) CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in April, opening a legal battle likely to delay the vote and deepening the political crisis between the Islamist president and his opponents ... |