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The final phase of the month-long elections kicked off with the Islamists on course to confirm their spectacular gains and reach the 100-seat mark and the ruling party determined to secure its two-thirds majority in parliament...

Court OKs monitoring of vote via television 
- Independent poll monitors will be able to watch ballot counting by closed-circuit television cameras in all future Egyptian elections, a court ruled Saturday.
Election monitors have complained of difficulty gaining access to polling and counting stations during Egypt’s violence- marred parliamentary elections, which began Nov. 9 and wil..

Judges demand Habib\’s dismissal 
– Egyptian judges on Sunday, December 4, called on President Hosni Mubarak to sack the minister of interior for police attacks on their peers during the first round of the third and last phase of the parliamentary elections.

A coalition of Egyptian rights groups have also called for the resignation of the government of Ahmed Nazif for failing to..

Muslim Brotherhood members detained
 – Egypt’s leading opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, accused the government Monday of detaining more than 1,250 supporters during ongoing legislative elections, while a press watchdog claimed police stopped film crews, including a U.S.-funded TV station, covering the polls.

The criticisms are the latest in a series of co..

Two die in Egypt election clashes
Two people were killed as police fought with voters trying to break the blockades of polling stations on the final day of Egypt’s parliamentary elections.

Government supporters armed with knives, bottles and machetes attacked voters lined up trying to get into several stations to cast ballots, sparking clashes with supporters of the Muslim Brotherhoo..

Two people die on last day of Egypt vote
  — Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds trying to break through blockades of polling stations in an opposition stronghold Wednesday, and two people were killed in the final day of Egypt’s parliamentary elections.
The deaths occurred in the northern town of Damietta, said Dr Mohammed Balboula of Damietta Public Hospital.

Police Scuffle With Female Voters in Egypt

Police wrestled with women and fired tear gas as voters tried to break blockades that police had erected around polling stations in opposition strongholds in this Nile Delta city Wednesday, the final day of Egypt’s parliamentary elections.

Government supporters armed with knives, bottles and machetes attacked voters lined up trying to..

The son of Egypt’s president, Hosni Mubarak, and a group of close associates have moved into key political positions that put the younger man in line to succeed his aging father at a time when the government has taken steps to block opposition rivals from challenging the heir apparent.

Last month, Gamal Mubarak rose in the hierarchy of the governing National Democratic Party, whose gras..

 Islamic televangelist Amr Khaled is young, smiling, teaches love and mercy and is so popular he’s credited with inspiring thousands of women -- turned off by dour, traditional clerics -- to take on the veil.

Now he’s putting his popularity on the line by trying a new role, as a bridge between Islam and the West at a time when many are talking about a clash of civilizations.

Security agents in Jordan are torturing terrorism suspects on behalf of the United States in hopes of forcing confessions, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International contended in a new report Monday.
The report said its investigators had identified about 10 suspected cases of men subjected to rendition from U.S. custody to interrogation centers in Jordan, a close U.S. ally in the Middl..

More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
"This is reality-check research," said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. "Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for de..

Essam el-Erian was once the most visible face of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, arguing the case of Egypt’s most powerful opposition movement to the public. But now he’s laying low as the government wages a crackdown.

"Conventional wisdom says if there is a storm, you have to bend to let it pass over, otherwise the storm will break you," el-Erian, the head of the Brotherhood’s politic..