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Egypt's Interior Minister Survives Assassination Attempt - New York Times Fri, 06 Sep 2013 01:39:42 GMT

New York Times

Egypt's Interior Minister Survives Assassination Attempt
New York Times
CAIRO — A powerful bomb blasted through a convoy of cars carrying the interior minister along a residential street on Thursday, raising fears of a widely predicted turn toward terrorist violence by opponents of the military ouster of President Mohamed ...
Egypt's interior minister survives blast; 22 people reported injuredWashington Post
Cairo Bomb Blast Can't Dent Rise of Egypt's Dictatorship-Era Security StateTIME
Blast in Egypt injures more than 20; interior minister survivesLos Angeles Times
The Globe and Mail -Telegraph.co.uk
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US loses focus on Egypt - Washington Post Thu, 05 Sep 2013 23:03:51 GMT

Voice of America

US loses focus on Egypt
Washington Post
THE DEBATE over Syria has obscured another critical decision about Middle East policy that President Obama and Congress must soon make: whether to sustain aid to the military-backed government that has been consolidating power in Egypt.
Suspend aid to Egypt, national security team tells ObamaCNN
Does the US Have Leverage Over Egypt's Military?Voice of America
APNewsBreak: Obama Weighs Egypt Aid SuspensionABC News
RT (blog) -The Atlantic Wire
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Egypt interim president defends military coup - Aljazeera.com Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:31:48 GMT

Aljazeera.com

Egypt interim president defends military coup
Aljazeera.com
Egypt's interim president has defended the military's removal of former President Mohamed Morsi and said his government's top priority is to restore security. In his first interview since he took office, Adly Mansour on Wednesday said that Egypt was ...
In Egypt, growing fears military faces armed insurgencyUPI.com
Egypt rethinking who its 'real friends' are, Interim President Adly Mansour saysCNN
The state of EgyptThe Economist
Xinhua -Financial Times -Middle East Monitor
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Egypt's Turmoil Batters Turkey's Exports - Businessweek Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:00:30 GMT

Egypt's Turmoil Batters Turkey's Exports
Businessweek
Turkey sells one-fifth of its exports to customers in the Middle East, and its reliance on that market has tripled in the past decade. Now the civil war in Syria and strife in Egypt are putting that growth in jeopardy. Turkish trucks used to reach the ...

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The Battle of the Archives: What Egypt's Intellectuals Lost - New Yorker (blog) Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:36:45 GMT

New Yorker (blog)

The Battle of the Archives: What Egypt's Intellectuals Lost
New Yorker (blog)
It was mostly coincidence that drew Khaled Fahmy into the fight over the Ministry of Culture. It was early June, less than a month before a mass protest movement, and then a military coup, would force the Muslim Brotherhood and its President, Mohamed ...


New timeline for origin of ancient Egypt - BBC News Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:02:55 GMT

BBC News

New timeline for origin of ancient Egypt
BBC News
A team from the UK found that the transformation from a land of disparate farmers into a state ruled by a king was more rapid than previously thought. Using radiocarbon dating and computer models, they believe the civilisation's first ruler - King Aha ...
Who ruled ancient Egypt and when: The most precise timeline yetNBCNews.com
Carbon dating shows ancient Egypt's rapid expansionNew Scientist
Researchers Calculate Timeline For Origin Of Ancient Egypt's DynastiesRedOrbit
Christian Science Monitor -Daily Mail -Raw Story
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Egypt: The unfolding crisis - Aljazeera.com Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:43:20 GMT

Egypt: The unfolding crisis
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In this documentary, we analyse the two-and-a-half year story of the events that led to the ousting of a president after 30 years of autocratic rule, the first free and fair elections in Egypt's history, a new president elected, but deposed 13 months ...

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Egypt's Minister Mohammed Ibrahim survives bomb attack - BBC News Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:33:29 GMT

BBC News

Egypt's Minister Mohammed Ibrahim survives bomb attack
BBC News
Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim has survived a bomb attack that targeted his convoy in Cairo. Hours later, he appeared on state TV unharmed to denounce the attack as a "cowardly assassination bid". Security officials said the blast near Mr ...


Pentagon official: Halt of aid to Egypt would cost US billions - Jerusalem Post Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:29:02 GMT

Pentagon official: Halt of aid to Egypt would cost US billions
Jerusalem Post
The US government faces billions of dollars in potential costs if it decides to cancel foreign military aid to Egypt, a senior Pentagon official told Reuters on Wednesday. Richard Genaille, deputy director of the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation ...


Assassination attempt on Egypt minister is just 'the beginning' of more attacks - NBCNews.com (blog) Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:28:37 GMT

Assassination attempt on Egypt minister is just 'the beginning' of more attacks
NBCNews.com (blog)
A wave of terrorist attacks by opponents of the military-installed interim government is just beginning, Egypt's interior minister said Thursday after he survived an assassination attempt when a car bomb blew up his convoy in Cairo. Mohamed Ibrahim had ...