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Thousands protest in Egypt after week of deadly riots
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CAIRO -- Thousands of Egyptians protested Friday after a week of deadly riots that have shaken President Mohamed Morsi’s grip on the nation and spurred fears that fresh unrest may lead to economic collapse. [Updated at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 1: The...Tags: Egyptian Protests (2012), Nobel Prize Awards, Egypt, Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. Embassy
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Iran arrests more than a dozen journalists
TEHRAN - More than a dozen journalists were arrested in Iran on Sunday and Monday, reportedly detained for ties to foreign Farsi-language outlets, according to Iranian media. The wave of arrests marks a new crackdown on the media in Iran, five months...
Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Police Arrests, Elections, Journalism
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Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and...
Tags: International Monetary Fund, North Africa, Washington, DC, Cairo (Egypt), Hosni Mubarak
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Critics Wonder if Morsy is Egypt's Next Strongman
CNNCAIRO, Egypt -- The sun rises over Cairo, and the city's landmark Tahrir Square is buzzing. Not with traffic, not with commerce, but with protest -- a tent city packed with people rife with anger at a man they blast as a dictatorial president, one who put...Tags: Judges, CNN (tv network), Political Dissent, Cairo (Egypt), Hosni Mubarak
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Symbol of PA gas drilling opposition succumbs to offer of money
You have to give Denise Dennis some credit. She did not come cheap. The price tag she put on her virtue is about the same as the amount Gov. Tom Corbett took to sell his soul — or Pennsylvania's soul, that is — to the gas drilling robber...Tags: Slavery, Petroleum Industry, Energy Resources, George Washington, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Gun control only hurts the law-abiding
Restricting guns from law-abiding citizens (exclusive of the mentally ill) is an assault on our rights as Americans that cannot be tolerated. Historically, the very first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired over the British trying to confiscate...Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Glen Burnie, Interior Policy, Politics
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Egyptian human rights group says police abuses continue
CAIRO — An Egyptian human rights groups reported this week that torture and police brutality, which helped spark a national uprising two years ago, have continued under the new Islamist-led government. Over the course of 2011 and 2012, the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Egypt, Human Rights, Cairo (Egypt), Hosni Mubarak
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Sundance 2013: In Egypt doc 'The Square,' a new kind of muckraking
PARK CITY, Utah -- The bullets and tear-gas pellets were flying at Jehane Noujaim, but instead of scrambling backward with the rest of the Cairo protesters, the documentary filmmaker walked forward into the smoky haze, where hundreds of gas mask-clad...
Tags: The Square (movie), Cairo (Egypt), Activism, Hosni Mubarak, Sean Penn
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‘Halo 4,’ ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ up for WGA video game award
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comMaster Chief and Mickey Mouse just snagged an invitation to one of Hollywood's glitzy awards season soirees. “Assassin's Creed III” ...... -
Review: 'Uprising' details the Egyptian revolution
That the Egyptian revolution of early 2011 was launched via Facebook is just one of the many extraordinary aspects of the whirlwind movement that effectively ended the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The long-simmering events that led to this...
Tags: Movies, Yemen, Hosni Mubarak, Entertainment, Arab Spring
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Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: Human Rights Watch, Litigation, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Crimes
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Letters: Saying no to that no-new-taxes guy
Re "Grover Norquist's tough year," Opinion, Nov. 21 One thing to add to Doyle McManus' excellent piece on Republicans in Congress finally turning away from the Grover Norquist pledge never to increase taxes: Norquist has been clear about his reason...Tags: George H.W. Bush, New York City, Republican Party
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