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Pakistan Taliban say 24 dead in US drone attack

Taliban militants recovered 24 bodies and were searching for more on Friday, hours after suspected US drones destroyed a camp in Pakistan’s northwestern region, militants and officials said. ..

Hamas’s popularity rises after Israel’s Gaza war

Hamas’s popularity among Palestinians has risen sharply since a three-week Israeli war in January devastated the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip, an opinion poll released Monday showed...

Egypt detains Internet activist

Egyptian security officers detained an Internet activist who belongs to an anti-government group, the man’s colleagues and a human rights group said on Tuesday...

Kidnappers seize foreign tourists in Egypt

Masked kidnappers in Egypt have seized 19 hostages including German, Italian and Romanian tourists in a remote desert area near the Sudanese and Libyan borders, Egyptian officials said today. ..

Mubarak ’may seek another term’

Cairo: The new leader of the Egyptian protest movement Kefaya, which tried to prevent the re-election of President Hosni Mubarak in 2005, said yesterday Egypt now faces the possibility that Mubarak will seek another term...

Reuters: Egypt’s Islamists Sees Election Setback in 2010

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s strongest opposition group, believes a government crackdown means it cannot quickly repeat the success it had in the last parliamentary elections...

Survey says world’s top 10 intellectuals are Muslims

The bimonthly U.S. international affairs journal Foreign Policy has just published a survey of the world’s top 20 public intellectuals and the first 10 are all Muslims. They are certainly an interesting group of men (and one woman) but the journal’s editors are not convinced they all belong on top...

U.S. disappointed by Egypt emergency law

The United States said on Tuesday it was "disappointing" that Egypt extended its emergency law in force since 1981 and urged its parliament to pass a new counter-terrorism law that would replace it...

Egypt extends emergency law for 2 more years

The Egyptian parliament, at the request of the government, on Monday extended emergency law for two years until mid-2010 or until anti-terrorism legislation has been drawn up to replace it...

Jailed Brotherhood leader to undergo heart procedure

The jailed, ailing third-in-command of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood will undergo a cardiac catheterisation procedure in a Cairo hospital on Monday, his daughter and the Brotherhood said...

Arab world sees U.S. in poor light: poll

Eight out of 10 Arabs have an unfavorable view of the United States and only six percent believe the U.S. troop build-up in Iraq in the last year has worked, said a poll of six Arab countries released on Monday...

Food crisis sparks violence across the globe

Across the planet, the price of basic foods are soaring. In many cases, the result has been violence. Focusing on the past few months, here’s a trip around the globe:..

Tension in Egypt clouds outlook for succession

Social tensions in Egypt over the past year have eroded overwhelming expectations that Gamal Mubarak will succeed his father President Hosni Mubarak at the helm of the most populous Arab country, analysts say...

Low turnout in Egypt elections

Egyptian police detained independent monitors and barred rights groups from voting stations on Tuesday during local elections which generated little enthusiasm from Egyptians, the groups said...

Carter calls Gaza blockade a crime and atrocity

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called the blockade of Gaza a crime and an atrocity on Thursday and said U.S. attempts to undermine the Islamist movement Hamas had been counterproductive...

WITNESS-Chased through the Nile Delta by a blue Peugeot

It was hovering close to the tail of the Reuters Jeep I was riding in to head out of Egypt’s Nile Delta after a surreal day of covering the Muslim Brotherhood’s mostly futile attempts to register for local council elections, due on April 8...

Egypt Islamists fight obstacles to enter council vote

A fading purplish bruise under his right eye is all that Said Taha Ali, a member of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood, has to show for his attempt to stand in local council elections due next month...

Egypt delays Brotherhood verdict, arrests 17

An Egyptian military court has delayed by a month a verdict on 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who face charges of belonging to a banned group, Brotherhood officials said on Tuesday...

Islamist opposition Web site editor held in Egypt

The editor of an Egyptian Web site run by the opposition Muslim Brotherhood has been remanded in custody for 15 days after two recent meetings with foreign human rights activists, the Brotherhood said on Thursday. Khaled Hamza, the editor of IkhanWeb.com, the English Web site of the Islamist group, was arrested in the street in northeast Cairo on Wednesday, the Web site said. ..

U.S. peace activist protests Egypt military trials

U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan pressed Egypt on Wednesday to free members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who are on trial in a military court, urging leniency for the sake of their families...