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Internet Kill Switch Here? Lieberman Bill Causes Worry
FOX CTShould the president be given emergency powers to control the Internet in a crisis? The recent Internet shut-off in Egypt has some wondering whether legislation recently introduced by Joe Lieberman and other senators hands the government a "kill switch."...Tags: Politics, Joe Lieberman, Crime, Law and Justice, WTIC, Elections
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Egypt to issue smart cards to fuel stations next month
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will begin using smart cards in the next few weeks to distribute gasoline and diesel, Oil Minister Sherif Haddara said on Thursday, in a step towards meeting IMF terms for a loan. The first smart cards will go to fuel stations and...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Passenger Cars
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Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
ReutersCAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. The abduction underlined the...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Jihad, Wars and Interventions, Religion and Belief, Cairo (Egypt)
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Egyptian soldiers kidnapped in Sinai released after talks
McClatchy Foreign StaffCAIRO Seven soldiers kidnapped last week by suspected Islamist militants in the restive Sinai were freed after a six-hour negotiation between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, the Egyptian government announcement Wednesday. The soldiers, who had been...Tags: Hosni Mubarak, Armed Forces, Israel, Military Equipment, Cairo (Egypt)
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Egypt court sentences four men to hang for killing priest
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced four men on Wednesday to death by hanging for the 2011 killing of a Coptic Christian priest in his apartment in the southern city of Assiut, state news agency MENA reported. The four were found guilty of...Tags: Theft, Punishment
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ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
Reuters* Moderate Islamist-led government cracks down on Salafists * Rupture raises risk of fuelling armed radicals in N.Africa * Main Salafist group rejects state, shuns elections * Secular Tunisians fear for freedom, stability By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 23...Tags: Labor Legislation, Politics, Arab Spring, Algeria, North Africa
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Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
ReutersTUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities. The...Tags: Labor Legislation, Politics, Arab Spring, Al-Qaeda, National Government
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Swiss seek to facilitate restitution of dictator loot
Reuters* Draft law first of its kind - Swiss Foreign Ministry * Swiss blocked $1 billion of Arab Spring loot ZURICH, May 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland proposed on Wednesday a new law to make it easier to freeze assets stolen and salted away by foreign leaders and...Tags: Arab Spring, Nigeria, Swiss Confederation, Crime, Law and Justice, Theft
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Seven Egyptian soldiers freed by captors in Sinai
CAIRO — Seven Egyptian soldiers who had been abducted in the Sinai last week were set free by their captors early Wednesday amid conflicting reports as to how their release was secured. Many local news websites reported that tribe leaders in the...
Tags: Armed Forces, Cairo (Egypt), Mohamed Morsi, Kidnapping
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Egyptian factories, hit by subsidy cuts, highlight Cairo's fiscal dilemma
Reuters* Brick, cement makers hit first by govt drive to cut energy subsidies * Cairo needs to cut spending but austerity risks more social unrest * Analysts urge Cairo to move quickly to secure IMF loan By Asma Alsharif AL-SAFF, Egypt, May 22 (Reuters) -...Tags: Public Finance, Politics, Cairo (Egypt), Consumer Confidence, Petroleum Industry
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FEATURE-Turkey presents Prophet's sayings for the 21st Century
ReutersBy Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Turkey, Book, Customs and Tradition, Ankara (Turkey)
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Yale Gets Egyptomania
Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharoahs Ends Jan. 4, 2014, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven, (203) 432-5050, peabody.yale.edu. Colleen Manassa, curator of Echoes of Egypt, gives a tour of the exhibition on...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Architecture, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Museums
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