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US Ambassador: We support fair elections in Egypt; have no preferred candidate

American Ambassador to Egypt, Margaret Scobey, during a visit to the Assiut Governorate in southern Egypt to sign an agreement with the governor there in order to finance 6 projects for drinking water stations and sanitation, said that the US Administration “does not support a certain candidate in the upcoming presidential elections” and stressed that her country supports holding free and fair elections anywhere in the world...

Egypt rejects UN rights investigator criticism

Cairo: The Egyptian government has denied all observations made by the United Nations Human Rights Council report, local NGOs have reported. The report by Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism Martin Scheinin says that Egypt’s use of the Emergency Law to justify arbitrary detention and the use of exceptional courts was examined today...

Britain’s Islamic Republic

United Kingdom’s Channel 4 last week aired a program about the Muslim takeover of Britain. I should have known that Dispatches: Britain’s Islamic Republic would be just another opportunity for one of our channels to showcase the anti-Muslim talent we have to offer, but nevertheless, I tuned in...

Egypt: Brotherhood accuses gov’t of corruption, ruling party dismisses investigation

Egypt’s largest and most active opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood has revealed its dismay at the government’s refusal for an investigation into corrupt practices of government officials and legislators...

Retrial for Egyptian mogul in Lebanese pop singer murder

An Egyptian appeals court has ordered a retrial in the murder of a Lebanese pop singer to businessman Hisham Talaat Mustafa, much to the anger and frustration of Egyptians...

Egypt gets 25,000 artifacts from Britain

The Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced on Thursday that Egypt restored 25,000 pieces of antiquities from Britain, some dating to the middle of the Stone Age, 200,000 B.C...

Israel: Border police critically injures 14-year-old in Nabi Saleh demonstration

A 14-year-old boy was critically injured during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh against creeping land grab by the adjacent Jewish-only settlement of Halamish...

Israel: End crackdown on anti-wall activists

Israel has detained Palestinians who advocate non-violent protests against the separation barrier and charged them based on questionable evidence, including allegedly coerced confessions...

Egypt’s Mubarak has operation in Germany

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif found himself in power temporarily on Saturday as President Hosni Mubarak has gall-bladder surgery in Germany..

Iran: Free ‘Mourning Mothers’ Supporters

The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release six women arrested in January and early February 2010, apparently in connection with their peaceful activities on behalf of the Mourning Mothers, Human Rights Watch said today...

Demonstrators block Route 60 near Beit Ummar

In response to the inclusion of the two holy sites in the list of Israeli heritage sites, and fearing that this step paves the way for the cementing of Israeli hold over these places, a demonstration called by the Beit Omar National Committee managed to occupy Route 60 – the main road between Jerusalem and Hebron – and stop all movement in it...

Egypt: Hamas official not welcome at brother’s trial

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has been banned from traveling to Egypt in order to give testimony in the trial of his brother Yousif, who was in Egyptian custody...

Not buying Egypt gov’t line over synagogue attack

The past week has seen the rise of two separate, yet eerily related stories: Mohamed ElBaradei’s return to Egypt and his savior-status; and an attack on a downtown Cairo synagogue...

Egypt releases Cairo bombing suspects

The Egyptian government has ordered the release of 7 people who allegedly took part in the Cairo bombing of a local market in February 2009, which left one French teenager dead and around 20 people injured...

Egypt: Fmr Appellate Court Vice-President says gov’t misled over Muslim Brotherhood

Former Egyptian appellate judge Mahmoud Khodeiry spoke out against the Egyptian government’s recent crackdown against the popular and powerful Muslim Brotherhood group, saying that the government is misled into thinking the Brotherhood has any terrorism links...

Egypt plays friendly with Palestinians

Cairo: Egypt announced that it will travel to the occupied West Bank on March 28 to play a friendly match against the Palestinian national football team...

Conflict arises in Egypt opposition over ElBaradei’s leadership, Muslim Brotherhood

Conflict within the so-called unified Egyptian opposition appears to be breaking...

Egypt: Suez Canal revenues since 1975 at $64 billion

Mahmoud Abdel-Wahab, a spokesman for Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority, said that global trade is on track to rebound this year and the Suez Canal is set to see a return to pre-economic crisis levels...

Egypt passes new organ transplant law

Egypt’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass regulations on organ transplants in the country. It ends months-long controversy over a bill aimed at curbing illegal trafficking and tourism that has arisen from organ dealing...

Egypt’s Shehata says he would have dropped England’s Terry

Cairo:Egyptian national football coach Hassan Shehata told England manager Fabio Capello that John Terry would have been out on his ear if he had been his manager...