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CAIRO — Egypt’s revolutionaries did not take to the streets to replace Hosni Mubarak with another military strongman or to put an Islamist ideologue in charge, but that is the choice they woke up to after a first-round vote for the presidency. The youths who put national pride before religion when they protested against Mr. ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood is reaching out to rivals including politicians knocked out of the presidential race in an attempt to rally support around its own candidate who faces a runoff against Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

CAIRO  - Egypt looks set for a run-off presidential vote between the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi and Mubarak-era minister Ahmed Shafiq, pitting Islamists who helped oust the dictator against his last premier. The official MENA news agency reported partial results showing Mursi leading with 1.82 million votes, followed by Shafiq with 1.78 million votes and a surprise showing by ...

• Latest results suggest error in early exit polls• Morsi first, but Leftist Sabahy pushes Shafiq into third• Free Syrian Army shuns al-Qaida in Syria1.11pm: Hamdeen Sabahy jumped into second place after Ahram's election tally added results from the port city of Alexandria where he enjoys big support, explains Jack Shenker in audio update from Cairo.There is a lot of confusion. We are not yet s...

CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate appeared likely to face off against either a former prime minister who served under ousted president Hosni Mubarak or a leftist contender whose popularity surged at the end of the race, according to predictions Friday by political parties based on preliminary results in Egypt’s first free presidential election. Read full article >>

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood said on Friday its candidate was leading the early count in Egypt's first free presidential election that exposed a rift in the nation between supporters of Islamists and backers of men who served deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Los cristianos egipcios votan a los candidatos presidenciales más laicos

As polling continues into 2nd day, people in Cairo call for a solution to failing economy, deteriorating security situation.

El camino que va desde la plaza Tahrir de El Cairo hasta el colegio de Bahiya Bulhany, en el barrio de Sayyida Zeinab, se recorre en apenas 20 minutos. «Pero hemos tardado mucho en llegar aquí, quince meses. Quizá 60 años», reconoce Saha Abdeladi mientras aguarda pacientemente su turno para votar. Con ilusión, pero sobre todo con mucho orgullo, los egipcios volvieron ayer a las urnas para elegi...

Speaking from Cairo, Middle East Correspondent Richard Spencer says the first day of the Egyptian presidential election is widely perceived to have been fair.

In the most historic event the country has seen since the Arab Spring revolution began last year, vast queues built up outside 13000 polling stations across as eager voters prepared to choose their next president.

CAIRO – An Egyptian court has sentenced five policemen to 10 years each in prison for their role in killing protesters in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the first such convictions against a force that was blamed for hundreds of deaths.

Ahmed Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology and has been...

Three days before Egypt’s presidential elections, a combination of high stakes, suspense and confusion has made for a heady atmosphere.

Era reconocida como una diva de la música clásica árabe; tenía 72 años

Spanish-language television anchor and producer Frank Cairo faces grand theft charges after police in South Florida say he stole a patio chairs and carpet from a neighbor.

Efforts to forge a united anti-Assad platform suffer setback after the Syrian National Council says it will boycott Arab League Cairo conference

El concejal de Juventud, Formación y Empleo de Pozuelo de Alarcón, Álvaro Spottorno, de 31 años, falleció ayer en el hospital Clínico San Carlos tras sufrir un accidente de moto. La víctima era hijo de Miguel Spottorno Robles, director del Instituto Cervantes en la Embajada de España en El Cairo, y sobrino de Rafael Spottorno, jefe de la Casa del Rey.

PA prisoners minister: Cairo is involved in talks with Palestinians, Israel; solidarity rallies to be held in three Israeli cities.

A World War II airplane that crash landed in Egypt's western desert has been found frozen in the sands of time almost 70 years later, the British embassy in Cairo said today.

African Champions League return match delayed by 48 hours after Cairo club were trapped in Mali by a counter-coup attempt.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's foreign reserves rose slightly last month, central bank data showed on Sunday, their first gain since a popular uprising unseated the country's autocratic leader and sent the economy into a tailspin.

Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Egypt returned to Cairo on Saturday after tensions briefly spurred the kingdom to pull its envoys and shutter its missions, Saudi state media reported.

Dos personas han muerto y al menos 296 han resultado heridas en choques registrados en El Cairo entre manifestantes y fuerzas de seguridad, según fuentes hospitalarias en la capital egipcia. A su vez, un fiscal militar ha informado de que 170 manifestantes han sido arrestados a consecuencia de esos choques, que han tenido lugar en el barrio de Abasiya, cerca del Ministerio de Defensa.

Egyptian security forces and plainclothed men clashed with thousands of protestors in downtown Cairo on Friday, killing at least one person and leaving hundreds wounded.

At least two people were killed on Friday in fierce clashes between anti-military protesters and soldiers in Cairo and nearly 300 others wounded, hospital officials and medics said.

THOUSANDS of anti-military protesters have taken to the streets in Cairo and Alexandria, days after bloody clashes near the defence ministry raised tensions ahead of landmark presidential elections.

THE ATTACK on Cairo protesters on Wednesday that left 11 dead underlined once again both the heavy price Egyptians are paying for their transition to democracy and, in the middle of a presidential election of regional significance, its precariousness.

Unidentified thugs shot at demonstrators protesting at the exclusion of their candidate from this month’s election, state media reported.

Thousands of Egyptians marched to the defense ministry after clashes spurred by unidentified attackers killed an estimated 20 protesters in the Abbasiya neighborhood of Cairo. The violence sparked fears that the upcoming elections would be disrupted. Two leading presidential candidates suspended their campaigns out of respect for the victims. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) exp...

Thugs attacked an anti-military protest near the defence ministry in Cairo on Wednesday, sparking clashes which killed 20 people in the politically tense run-up to Egypt's first post-uprising presidential poll. In a bid to placate the protesters calling for an end to military rule, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) said it was ready to hand power to civilian rule on May 24 i...

Thugs attacked an anti-military protest near the defence ministry in Cairo on Wednesday killing 20 people, officials said, in the politically tense run-up to Egypt’s first post-uprising presidential election

Suspected supporters of Egypt’s military rulers have attacked predominantly Islamist anti-government protesters outside the Defence Ministry in Cairo, setting off clashes that left 11 dead.

(Phys.org) -- Algol, aka the Demon Star, is actually a binary star in the Perseus constellation, and has been the subject of speculation for hundreds of years. Now a group of Finnish researchers propose that the peculiar behavior of Algol was first noted by the Egyptians some 3200 years ago. They suggest, as they describe in their paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, that a document kno...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A senior International Monetary Fund official said Wednesday the fund remains willing to consider a much-needed $3.2 billion aid package for Egypt but is waiting for sufficient consensus from political leaders in Cairo....

Several hundred protesters have camped out in area for days to call for an end to military rule

Several hundred protesters have camped out in area for days to call for an end to military rule

Several hundred protesters have camped out in area for days to call for an end to military rule

Nancy Okail, an Egyptian woman facing prosecution in Cairo, is deeply worried that the United States will forget about the Egyptian democracy workers.

CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Egyptians are marching 125 km (77 miles) along a major highway to Cairo to take part in a demonstration in Tahrir Square, stretching the boundaries of the country's flourishing culture of political activism.

Egyptian protesters blocked a main Cairo bridge over the Nile river to back their call for an end to military rule.

CAIRO, April 12 (Reuters) - Orascom Telecom (OTH) said on Thursday it had submitted a formal arbitration notice against the Algerian government, the latest twist in a long and bitter dispute over...

Egiptólogos españoles, trabajan en la necrópolis de la ciudad de Oxirrinco, a 200 kilómetros de El Cairo, hallaron en su última campaña de excavaciones un depósito con los restos de más de un millar de peces

CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values....

The funeral of Coptic Pope Shenouda III has taken place in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

Se llamaba Nazir Gayed, pero todo el mundo le conocía como Shenuda III. Tenía 88 años y murió el sábado en un hospital egipcio. Era desde 1971 el papa de los coptos, una religión heredera del primitivo cristianismo que suma a día de hoy 60 millones de fieles, la mayoría en la parte septentrional del continente africano. Su cuerpo permanece desde el domingo en el trono papal de la catedral de Ab...

THOUSANDS of Coptic Christians have packed St Mark's Cathedral in Cairo to bid farewell to Pope Shenuda III.

Washington está dividido entre apoyar la democracia árabe y una política de seguridad regional construida con los enemigos de la democracia

Countries worldwide are honoring International Women’s Day, and the nations of the Middle East and North Africa are no exception. On Thur…

Two Chinese workers who were kidnapped on Thursday morning have been released, a Chinese embassy official said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. does not believe that a man arrested in Cairo is a long-sought senior al-Qaida military leader, U.S. officials said Wednesday....

Osama Bin Laden's successor nabbed at Cairo airport

The President of the General Assembly and Egypts Foreign Minister held talks today in Cairo on the state of the countrys democratic transition in the wake of the Arab Spring reform movement.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris wants to get back on the acquisition trail, eyeing businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa after selling a chunk of assets to Russia's Vimpelcom.

Both buildings vandalized; Rallies against Syrian president also held in United States, Britain; Assad loyalist forces kill more than 200 in Homs; UNSC due to vote on Syria resolution Saturday.

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Police have killed three protesters in Egypt as a surge of anti-regime fury spread from Cairo to Suez.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called the biggest disaster in the nation's soccer history.

CAIRO — At least 68 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured Wednesday night in one of the deadliest incidents in the country in recent history, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Clashes broke out as fans streamed onto the field at a stadium at Port Said at the conclusion of a game between regional teams, the home town Al-Masry and Cairo’s Al-Ahly, according to news reports and w...

Roll Call's Ambreen Ali interviews a Muslim-American voter: Hasan said she would not vote for President Barack Obama because he has repeatedly disappointed her. She cited two examples: His decision to keep open the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and his recent approval of the defense authorization bill with controversial new detention policies. “Obama may say, ‘I’m friendly with Muslims,’ b...

THERE IS A grotesque incongruity in the tour around Washington this week of an Egyptian military delegation even as seven Americans who work for congressionally funded pro-democracy groups are prevented from leaving Cairo and threatened with criminal prosecution. What makes it worse is that the ruling military council refuses to recognize the seriousness of the crisis it has created in the U.S....

What's an actress to do when she needs a little time off? For Stephanie Beacham, the answer was obvious - a week in Egypt split between heavenly Hurghada and historic Cairo.

The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis: Egyptians were infected by the idea of overthrowing their dictator. And now, these researchers claim, they're getting close to developing tools that'd track the spread of infections like these.

CAIRO (AP) -- Officials at Cairo's international airport confiscated 420 pounds (190 kilograms) of frozen cow brains Friday from three Sudanese travelers who planned to sell them to Egyptian restaurants, authorities said....

Tourists are absent and uncertainty abounds in Cairo as Egypt's interim government struggles to plot a way forward out of a deepening crisis.

Aún no se sabe el rival pero se trata de un denominado "Desafío de los Faraones".

While 2011 is almost over, the year has only really just begun in terms of determining its historical significance. 2011 wasn't, of course, just another year. Like 1989, 1968, 1917 and 1848, 2011 was a revolutionary year, one that - from Cairo to Athens to Tunis to Wall Street to Moscow - may have changed the world forever. And to mark the historic nature of 2011, Time magazine just ma...

The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned about reports of attacks against NGOs in Egypt. Egyptian security forces, in uniform and in civilian clothes, as well as public prosecutors, are reported to have stormed the offices of six NGOs this Thursday 29 December 2011: the Arab Center for Independence of Justice and Legal Professions (ACIJP) the Bud...

CAIRO (Agencies) - Hundreds gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of a planned pro and anti militery mass rallies on Friday which sparked outrage when its soldiers were taped beating women protesters.Activists and political parties called for the demonstration after days of deadly clashes with soldiers last week left at least 17 people dead and many more wounded, including a woman hospitalise...

An estimated 10,000 Egyptian women marched through Cairo today to protest soldiers' beatings and abuses of female demonstrators.

Clashes between protesters and the security forces in downtown Cairo, continued for a third consecutive day Sunday as reports of casualties escalated. Rocks and Molotov cocktails flew during violenct clashes, injuring nearly 60 members of the security forces.

THE IRISH Anti-War Movement is holding an emergency protest today at the Egyptian embassy, Clyde Road, Dublin, to express solidarity with protesters in Cairo.

On the third day of the protests, they caught a thief in the act at the Omar Makram Mosque. It happened during midday prayers, when most of the men were lined up facing the front. The mosque sits on the southwestern corner of Tahrir Square, in downtown Cairo, and the . . . (Subscription required.)

Five port workers in Cairo refused to sign for a shipment of 7.5 tons of tear-gas from the US, fearing that it would be used against demonstrators; another 14 tons of tear-gas were expected from the US at the time. Peaceful protesters in Tahrir Square were subjected to relentless gas attacks by the military government [...]

This article was co-authored with Dr. Morad Abou-Sabe', President of the Arab American League of Voters of New Jersey. CNN's Ivan Watson talks to John King from Cairo about his exclusive interview with Egyptian activist Wael Ghonim. {February 9, 2011} The Egyptian revolution of January 25th, 2011 created widespread euphoria of the kind only wide-eyed optimists enjoy. It was a mome...

hessian tips a story in BusinessWeek about Palantir, a system designed to aggregate disparate data points gathered by intelligence agencies and weave them into a more useful narrative. The article summarizes it thus: "Depending where you fall on the spectrum between civil liberties absolutism and homeland security lockdown, Palantir’s technology is either creepy or heroic." "The day Fikri drive...

Arab ministers have met in Cairo to draw up sanctions against Syria to punish Bashar al-Assad's regime for defying an ultimatum to allow in observers.

Three US students are still being processed for release by Egyptian officials after they were held in Cairo accused of throwing firebombs at police.

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian authorities on Thursday released three U.S. students held in Cairo on suspicion of taking part in violence during a protest against the country's ruling military council, a security source said.

The parents of three American students arrested during demonstrations in Cairo worry about how to help their sons so far away.

For Chinese travelers abroad, shopping for gifts can be a headache. Souvenirs from New York, London or Cairo may look exotic at first, but a closer examination will find most of them are labeled "Made in China".

CAIRO (Reuters) - One person was killed and at least 11 were wounded on Sunday in clashes between the army and protesters sparked by concerns about pollution from a fertilizer plant in northern Egypt, the state news agency said.

CAIRO (Reuters)- After the rice harvest each autumn, Egyptians take a deep breath and brace for the "black cloud," a thick layer of smog from burning rice straw that spreads across Cairo and the Nile...

Mit "Cairo Time" kommt endlich wieder eine erwachsene Liebesgeschichte mit Tiefgang in die Kinos - und hat mit Kairo eine Metropole zum dritten Hauptdarsteller. Mit Reise-Gewinnspiel