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AP 07 Feb 2012
A lawyer representing Americans facing trial over activities of their pro-democracy groups says they have been caught...
US Republican primary candidate Newt Gingrich
Reuters 07 Feb 2012
White House hopeful Newt Gingrich likened Cairo's apparent plans to put 19 Americans on trial over charges of...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives to attend the Russia-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Hanoi on July 22, 2010. Lavrov attended meetings with counterparts from the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), as North Korea condemned imminent US-South Korea naval exercises as a threat to global peace.
Reuters 07 Feb 2012
Syrian forces renewed their bombardment of Homs on Tuesday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in...
Reuters 07 Feb 2012
The White House said on Monday that an Egyptian crackdown on pro-democracy non-governmental groups that has enmeshed a...
A file photo of the US Congress building.
Reuters 07 Feb 2012
An Egyptian military delegation abruptly canceled its meetings with US lawmakers to return to Cairo on Monday after...
AP 05 Feb 2012
BEIRUT — The United States proposed an international coalition to support Syria’s opposition Sunday after...
Rime Naguib 05 Feb 2012
US-Egypt relations have soured following the latter’s recent blows to its most important benefactor. For the...
Egypt Independent
Agencies
05 Feb 2012
Forty-three suspects in the NGO funding case have been transferred to the Cairo Criminal Court, Reuters reported on...
Reuters 05 Feb 2012
The US ambassador to the United Nations said she was "disgusted" by the vote, which came a day after...
In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1998 file photo, the shadow of Mount Sinai stretches across the valley at the foot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula some 240 miles southeast of Cairo, Egypt.(AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)
AP 05 Feb 2012
CAIRO — Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The...