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AFPUS President Barack Obama on Monday told the people of Northern Ireland that they must respond with bravery whenever their hard-won peace fashioned after years of violence comes under attack.Obama told an audience of mostly young people in Belfast that the United States would always stand by them, as a new generation tries to forge a new identity from the province's bitter past."You are the -
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a decree Sunday evening appointing 17 new provincial governors.Seven of the new governors are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which the president hails, including those appointed to the Nile Delta governorates of Gharbiya and Menoufiya.Adel El-Khayat, a member of the former militant group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, was appointed governor of -
ReutersSaudi Arabia plans to block Internet-based communication tool WhatsApp within weeks if the US-based firm fails to comply with requirements set by the kingdom's telecom regulator, local newspapers reported this week.This month the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) banned Viber, another such tool, which like WhatsApp is hard for the state to monitor and deprives -
MENAUN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon had phoned Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi as well as his Ethiopian premier Hailemariam Desalegn on Thursday and Friday respectively, a spokesman for Ki-Moon announced, to recommend the two governments to hold talks over the disputed Renaissance dam project.The UN chief "spoke with both leaders about the proposed dam project on the Nile River and expressed -
Ahram OnlineTuesday's attack on protesters at the culture ministry gave the ongoing sit-in a completely new goal. What had begun as a protest against the culture minister became a nationwide fight for Egypt's identity, threatened, according to opposing intellectuals, by Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.Protesters say Culture Minister Alaa Abdel-Aziz has an "insufficient artistic and -
Salafist Al-Nour party spokesman Nader Bakkar says the position President Mohamed Morsi announced at the Cairo Stadium's indoor venue Saturday night contradicts earlier statements Morsi made."The president’s [new line] is not in line with the statement he made earlier in Moscow on the similarity of the Egyptian and Russian stance [towards Syria]," Bakkar tweeted through his account, -
MENAThe National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) announced that a 6-magnitude earthquake hit Egypt on Saturday. According to NRIAG Chairman Hatem Ouda, the tremor's epicenter was in the Mediterranean Sea, -
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi announced on Saturday the end of diplomatic ties with the Syrian regime led by Bashar Al-Asaad."We have decided to close down the Syrian embassy in Cairo," said Morsi during a popular conference held in support of the Syrian uprising at a fully-packed Cairo Indoor Stadium."The Egyptian envoy in Damascus will also be -
APAn EgyptAir official says a plane from Cairo bound for New York's John F Kennedy airport has been forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger discovered a letter onboard threatening to blow up the aircraft.Chairman of EgyptAir Tawfiq Assi says flight 985 had around 300 passengers onboard when it was diverted to Glasgow's Prestwick Airport Saturday.Britain's Ministry of Defence -
Egypt's Cabinet has approved a draft law proposal carrying increased prison sentences for street crime offences and assaults on police officers.The draft law, which was submitted to the Shura Council's Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee Saturday, assigns the death penalty for those convicted of forming street gangs to assault groups of citizens or resisting policemen with
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a decree Sunday evening appointing 17 new provincial governors.Seven of the new governors are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which the president hails, including those appointed to the Nile Delta governorates of Gharbiya and Menoufiya.Adel
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AFPUS President Barack Obama on Monday told the people of Northern Ireland that they must respond with bravery whenever their hard-won peace fashioned after years of violence comes under attack.Obama told an audience of mostly young people in Belfast that the United States would always stand by
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Egypt’s U-20 side won their first warm-up for the World Cup on Saturday, smashing Kosovo 8-0. However, coach Rabie Yassine was not entirely satisfied."It's only the fourth game for the team and we need more time to build up the players' confidence and achieve and harmony," Yassine said in a
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says police will remove "troublemakers" from Istanbul's Taksim Square within 24 hours.The Thursday warning comes less than a day after Erdogan's Islamic-rooted party offered a plan to hold a referendum over a development plan near the square that has fanned two
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ReutersThe loan, needed to help stabilise Egypt's balance of payments and state finances, has been under discussion for two years but agreement has repeatedly been postponed by political unrest in the country and the government's reluctance to commit to austerity measures."The IMF is verifying
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ReutersSaudi Arabia plans to block Internet-based communication tool WhatsApp within weeks if the US-based firm fails to comply with requirements set by the kingdom's telecom regulator, local newspapers reported this week.This month the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC)
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AFPTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallies supporters after riot police again clash with thousands of anti-government demonstrators in a second week of nationwide unrest.Three people have died in the protests against Erdogan and his Islamic-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP), in power since 2002.Following are the main events of the past days:- May 28: A peaceful local protest
AFPTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing one of the biggest challenges of his decade in power with anti-government protests that critics say have exposed growing discontent with his increasingly authoritarian and conservative agenda.Here are the key events since Erdogan's Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) assumed power in the predominantly Muslim but staunchly
AHRAM ONLINEFounders of Egypt’s 'Rebel' campaign, a newly established movement that aims to withdraw confidence from President Mohamed Morsi by collecting citizens' signatures, spoke at an open forum on Wednesday to discuss the campaign, which has recently gone viral online and on the streets.'Rebel' campaigners hope to collect 15 million signatures and hold a mass sit-in on 30 June –
BBC SportWhen it's put to him that he might be the most talented athlete in the world to hold a racquet, a bashful Ramy Ashour admits "that's pretty great".The 25-year-old Egyptian is more than just the current squash world number one - his elastic, unorthodox brilliance and charisma could be the key to squash breaking out beyond its four walls and regaining a place on the wider sporting
