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Marches meander through Cairo denouncing military rule |
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CAIRO: Thousands of protesters joined marches around Cairo heading to Tahrir Square on Friday, calling on the military council to immediately hand over power to a civilian authority.
As the day wore on, hundreds marched in groups to the state TV building Maspero, and by evening, activists said numbers swelled into the thousands. Protesters chanted “liars, liars” outside the....
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| Baradei's transition plan proposes interim president |
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CAIRO: Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, who recently dropped out of Egypt’s presidential race in protest of the ruling military council’s performance, outlined Thursday a transition plan to hand over power to civilian rule.
On his Twitter account, he said the “way forward after a year of
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| Scores storm Syrian embassy in Cairo: AFP |
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CAIRO: Scores of opponents of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's regime stormed the Syrian embassy in Cairo on Friday before being dragged away by security forces, an AFP reporter said.
At least 200 protesters forced their way into the building in the Garden City neighborhood in Cairo, breaking doors and
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| Egypt lawyer: Israel, US plotted protest shooting |
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CAIRO: The United States and Israel plotted the killing of Egyptian protesters during last year's 18-day uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, a lawyer for his former interior minister claimed Thursday.
Lawyer Mohamed El-Gendi also accused security guards at the American University in Cairo
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| Experts weigh in on low female representation in parliament |
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CAIRO: Very few female candidates ran in the nation’s parliamentary elections and even fewer have been elected: 10 took the oath last Monday.
Eight women elected and two appointed women make up less than two percent of the 508 seats in the powerful lower house of parliament. Considering the proportion
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| Two Copts killed in southern Egypt |
CAIRO: Unknown assailants shot dead two Coptic Christians in a village of southern Egypt on Thursday, prompting an angry protest by more than 1,500 of their co-religionists, police said.
A police official
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