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Obama Reconciles With Egypt - Wall Street Journal Fri, 03 Apr 2015 22:28:24 GMT

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Obama Reconciles With Egypt
Wall Street Journal
Yet Mr. Sisi also spared Egypt from the slow-rolling Islamic coup that Mr. Morsi was seeking to impose. An Islamist terror campaign continues in the Sinai Peninsula and sometimes in Egypt's cities. He has stopped Muslim assaults on Egypt's Coptic ...

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Meet Bassem Youssef, the Jon Stewart of Egypt - ABC News Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:01:43 GMT

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Meet Bassem Youssef, the Jon Stewart of Egypt
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Power Players. Bassem Youssef is too funny for his own good. The Egyptian satirist, frequently dubbed “the Jon Stewart of Egypt,” is one of the most famous television stars the Arab world. His show "Al Bernameg” (“The Program”) is the Egyptian ...

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Obama lifts freeze, ships arms to Egypt - CNN Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:13:53 GMT

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Obama lifts freeze, ships arms to Egypt
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Washington (CNN) With instability rising in the Middle East, President Barack Obama told Egypt's leader Tuesday that he was ending a freeze on weapons shipments to the longtime U.S. ally, a moratorium on material support that began after a bloody ...
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Gunmen kill 15 soldiers, two civilians in Egypt's Sinai - Reuters Thu, 02 Apr 2015 07:15:02 GMT

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Gunmen kill 15 soldiers, two civilians in Egypt's Sinai
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ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked several military checkpoints in Egypt's Sinai on Thursday, killing 15 soldiers and two civilians, security sources said, defying one of the toughest security crackdowns in ...
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Tourists are trickling back to Egypt - Washington Post Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:07:49 GMT

Tourists are trickling back to Egypt
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“Welcome to Cairo.” “Happy New Year!” “Where are you from? Germany?” “Happy Valentine's Day!” “Welcome to Alaska!” “No? Welcome, America!” Egypt was delighted to see me. So overjoyed, in fact, that Egyptians couldn't contain themselves.


Egypt's Vietnam - Foreign Policy (blog) Fri, 03 Apr 2015 20:28:42 GMT

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Egypt's Vietnam
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In the spring of 1967, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser lamented to the U.S. ambassador in Cairo that the war in Yemen had become his “Vietnam.” He subsequently explained to an Egyptian historian how the conflict spiraled out of control: “I sent a ...
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Study: New H5N1 strain in Egypt may be tied to rise in human cases - CIDRAP Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:38:24 GMT

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Study: New H5N1 strain in Egypt may be tied to rise in human cases
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A new strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus that has apparently gained predominance in Egypt in recent months may be associated with the sharp increase in human H5N1 cases there during that same time frame, an international team of scientists reported ...


Egypt reverses visa on arrival ban for Britons - Telegraph.co.uk Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:34:37 GMT

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Egypt reverses visa on arrival ban for Britons
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The Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced last month that from May 15, Britons travelling outside of tour groups would not be able to obtain visas on arrival, and would instead have to face consulate bureaucracy, long waits and a higher cost to get entry ...
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U.S. Ends Freeze On Military Aid To Egypt - NPR Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:50:43 GMT

U.S. Ends Freeze On Military Aid To Egypt
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Certain U.S. weapons stopped flowing to Egypt in 2013 when a democratically elected president was overthrown. Renee Montagne talks to the Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Institution. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: We turn next to Egypt and news ...

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Obama embraces the Nixon Doctrine in Egypt - Washington Post Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:15:09 GMT

Obama embraces the Nixon Doctrine in Egypt
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Is Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi really an ally in our ongoing struggle against Islamic jihadism and terrorism in the Middle East? That seems to be the prevailing view these days. The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens called him a ...