Egypt
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Israel-Hamas tensions: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian man
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Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 19 people as crowds surged toward Gaza's border fence with Israel on Friday, a health official said, the first violence since a truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers took hold a day before.
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Israel airstrikes against Gaza continue
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Israeli aircraft struck crowded areas in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior militant with a missile strike on a media center Monday, driving up the Palestinian death toll to 96, as Israel broadened its targets in the 6-day-old offensive meant to quell Hamas rocket fire on Israel.
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Israel offers to suspend Gaza Strip bombings
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Air raid sirens wailed in Jerusalem Friday as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians continued. The Israeli army has also called up 16,000 troops in advance of a possible Gaza invasion.
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Mark Basseley Youssef, anti-Muslim film creator, faces hearing
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Prosecutors could provide more details Wednesday about the California man behind an anti-Muslim film that roiled the Middle East in a case where he's accused of violating the terms of his probation by lying about his identity.
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'Innocence of Muslims' protests: Anger continues to rage in Muslim world
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As anti-American anger continues across the Muslim world, Americans are being evacuated and taken out of harm's way.
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'Innocence of Muslims': Filmmaker linked to anti-Islamic film questioned by probation officers
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Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, a filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed Saturday at a Los Angeles sheriff's station and afterward decided not to return to his home - possibly heading into hiding.
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'The Innocence of Muslims' movie protests: Another Arab Spring on the cusp?
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As campaign season is in full swing, the talking points have shifted dramatically in the past couple days to foreign policy—thanks to a sudden uprising in the Muslim world.
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Egyptian presidential winner moves to form team
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Egypt's new president-elect, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, moved into the office once occupied by ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and started consultations Monday on forming his team and a new government, an aide said.
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Hosni Mubarak 'clinically dead'
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Security officials say Egypt's Hosni Mubarak is in a coma but off of life support and his heart and other vital organs are functioning.
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Muslim Brotherhood takes Egypt's presidential election
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Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi declared victory Monday in Egypt's first free presidential election since Hosni Mubarak's ouster 16 months ago.
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Egypt's parliament dissolves after high court ruling
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Egypt's highest court on Thursday ordered the country's Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved, saying its election about six months ago was unconstitutional.
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Hosni Mubarak's health deteriorating further
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Hosni Mubarak's health deteriorated further on Monday with the ousted president slipping in and out of consciousness and being feed liquids intravenously, Egyptian security officials said.
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Hosni Mubarak gets life sentence, suffers health crisis
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After his sentencing, Hosni Mubarak, the 84-year old ousted president of Egypt, suffered a "health crisis" while on a helicopter flight to a Cairo prison hospital, according to security officials
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Man wakes up at his own funeral
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An Egyptian man, pronounced dead following a heart attack, woke up at his funeral.
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Egypt lifts travel ban on U.S. Pro-Democracy workers
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This signals an end to one of the worst crisis in relations between Egypt and the U.S. in decades.
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Egyptian arrested in terror network case
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An Egyptian with the same name as a long-sought senior al-Qaida leader was arrested Wednesday in Cairo, but he denied any link to the terrorist network and said it was a case of mistaken identity. Two U.S. officials agreed.
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Deadly Egypt soccer raid
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A narrow stadium exit turned into a death trap as crowds of Egyptian soccer fans fled supporters of the opposing team armed with knives, clubs and stones rushed into the corridor, only to be crushed against a locked gate.
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Ray LaHood's son, others banned from leaving Egypt
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The State Department's top human rights official says Egyptian authorities have banned a number of Americans from leaving the country - including the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
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