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Egypt opposition wants foreign election monitors
 
By Tom Perry

CAIRO – Egyptian opposition groups which have formed an alliance to fight November parliamentary elections want international human rights organisations to monitor the vote, a member of the alliance said on Wednesday.
George Ishak said the alliance that includes his Kefaya protest movement would ask..

Egypt gives main oppn group more space before election
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities are giving the outlawed main opposition group unusual leeway in the run-up to parliamentary elections, in what the group says is an attempt to enhance the vote’s credibility.

The group’s activists were arrested and their supporters blocked from voting in Egypt’s last parliamentary elections in 199..

Egypt’s Copts feel neglected as election nears

By Mohammed Abbas

CAIRO (Reuters) - Coptic Christians and Muslims clapped, cheered and beat drums at a rally for a Coptic candidate in Egypt’s November parliamentary elections, but amid talk of unity some spoke in hushed voices of sectarian tensions.

A Coptic candidate in Alexandria withdrew his name last month after three p..

Mubarak’s son stands out in Egypt campaign
By Tom Perry

CAIRO (Reuters) - The son of Egypt’s president has stood out on the campaign trail for legislative elections, further building his image as one of the country’s most influential men and a possible future head of state.

Many opposition figures and analysts now take it as given that Gamal Mubarak aims to lead the Arab worl..

Egypt police arrest 7 in Islamist election protest

CAIRO (Reuters) - Police arrested seven Egyptians taking part in a Muslim Brotherhood protest on Friday against what the Islamist opposition group says were rigged legislative elections, a police source said.

The banned but tolerated Brotherhood fielded some 50 candidates as independents in the first round of the elections on We..

Islamists take on Mubarak’s party in Egypt vote 
 

CAIRO - Islamists take on Egypt’s ruling party on Tuesday in legislative election run-offs, after showing their strength at the ballot box by securing places in the
second round of voting for dozens of parliamentary seats.

Muslim Brotherhood candidates will compete in head-to-head contests for 42 seats on Tuesday..

Egypt candidate supporters burn ruling party office
 
CAIRO, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Supporters of an independent candidate in Egypt’s parliamentary elections attacked and burnt the headquarters of the ruling party in a lower income Cairo district, witnesses and police said on Wednesday.

The witnesses said the attack by a group of between 30 and 50 men on the one-storey building t..

Britain denied on Friday reports that its diplomats had been told to open contacts with Egypt’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement.

A Foreign Office spokesman said the only direct contact his government had was with independent parliament members, without denying that these could include Brotherhood sympathizers.

The New Statesman magazine on Thursday published what it said we..

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday that financial pressure from an "unholy alliance" led by the United States will not bring down the new Hamas government.

Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters poured onto Gaza’s streets after Friday prayers to attend Hamas-sponsored rallies protesting aid cuts by the European Union and the United States.

Asserting ..

A leading member of Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood today said he saw no harm in an Iranian nuclear weapon because it would help restore the balance between Israel and the Arab and Muslim world.

Mohamed Habib, deputy leader of Egypt’s main opposition group, told Reuters that Washington’s motive for opposing Iran’s nuclear programme was to ensure Israel’s survival and military domi..

Ikhwanweb opposes Egyptian government’s clamp on freedom of expression and demands the release of blogger Abdel Karim Suleiman and all prisoners of conscience. Whether Abdel Karim’s writings "defame" Islam or not is something that should of have been handled by scholars not by police officers an..

Egypt and the European Union have patched up a disagreement over human rights, enabling them to sign a “neighbourhood action plan” in Brussels on March 6, officials said yesterday.
The Egyptian government had tried to exclude any discussion of individual human rights cases in the dialogue envisaged in the plan, which is tied to an aid package worth 558mn euros ($735mn) over the next four yea..