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Cairo — Proposed plans to change the interim constitution before Egypt's landmark presidential election have made some candidates nervous - enough to break the 48 hour campaign silence rule. Egypt's military council will make changes to the Constitutional Declaration in order to define the role of the president, according to reports. "These changes that the army wants to make to
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Egypt's premier Kamal al-Ganzuri on Tuesday urged for calm during the country's first presidential election since a popular uprising, calling on political forces to accept the results of the historic vote. Ganzuri called on Egyptians to "stand together to ensure the success of the electoral process and to accept the decision of the majority of Egyptians who will express their
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Cairo — As Egyptians prepare to elect their country's first president since the uprising that toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak, the military junta that has ruled for the last 15 months has shown little sign it is prepared to accept civilian oversight. "Dismantling the military's hold on the state is a process that will take years," says Robert Springborg, professor of
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Cairo - They came out in droves united in their desire to overthrow Hosni Mubarak, but on the eve of Egypt's landmark presidential election, the youth that spearheaded that revolt are divided over how to keep it alive. After a tumultuous, sometimes bloody, transition following the strongman's fall, activists say they are tired of the constant struggle with those left
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Cairo — Campaign of presidential candidate Hisham Bastawisi denied reports that he may withdraw for another candidate, insisting on his intention to run the race until the end. "We insist on our commitment to our principles and not giving up on them under any circumstances, and we are counting on the awareness of the Egyptian people in electing a candidate",
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On 23 May, Egyptians head to the polls to elect the first president of the post-Mubarak era. Whilst this is likely to be the freest election in Egyptian history, the process faces a number of constraints. Accusations abound that the ruling military council (SCAF) has used indirect pressure on the levers of state - especially the courts - to limit
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Algerian singer Warda, whose powerful vocal range and patriotic songs earned her legendary status throughout the Arab world, died of a heart attack late on Thursday aged 72, her family said. Known throughout the region as Warda al-Jazairia (Warda the Algerian), she performed for presidents and popular audiences, reinventing herself throughout the decades to appeal to old and young alike.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood organised on Thursday a kilometres-long rally to support its candidate in next week's presidential election, displaying the potent network of activists it counts on to win. Islamist activists stood side by side for kilometres through Cairo and north of the capital holding posters of Mohammed Mursi, who sketchy polls suggest is trailing behind in the May 23-24
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Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah, in Cannes with an Arab Spring drama, defiantly vowed Thursday that the Islamists jockeying for power back home would never succeed in stifling art. "In a context where cinema is being attacked as a sin in Egypt by so-called Islamist parties, this film is not so much a political commitment as a commitment to cinema," he
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Sohag - Democratic fervour is gripping Egypt's big cities ahead of a presidential election but in the provinces many are nostalgic for the autocratic past. In Sohag, a town 400km up the Nile from Cairo, residents have been alarmed by civil unrest, labour strikes and lax policing since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak last year. "Egypt is a land of
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Cairo - The face of Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister beams down from huge billboards on major highways promising "Egypt for everyone", but Ahmed Shafiq is polarising voters ahead of next week's presidential poll. For some, his government experience and background as a former air force commander promise an end to the turbulence since Mubarak was ousted more than 15
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Cairo - Egypt's military rulers are to carry out a minor cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, state television reported. Two weeks before presidential elections, the ministers of higher education, manpower, culture and parliamentary affairs are to be replaced in the first shake-up under Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri since his government was appointed in December, the broadcaster reported. No reasons were given
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Cairo - The Bedouin abductors of 10 Fijians from the Multinational Force and Observers (FMO), charged with monitoring peace between Egypt and Israel, said on Monday they had freed their captives. The peacekeepers in Egypt's Sinai peninsula were briefly detained by the tribesmen, one of whose number told AFP they had seized the men because they were seeking the release
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Cairo - Hundreds of Egyptian riot police stormed out of their camp and cut off a desert highway out of Cairo following reports that an officer had killed one of their colleagues, state media reported on Monday. "Senior security officials have managed to contain the crisis involving conscripts in the Central Security Forces who cut the Cairo-Ismailiya desert road," on
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Cairo - Egypt's military ruler attended on Saturday an unprecedented public funeral for a soldier killed in clashes with protesters as the army detained 179 people over the violence in the run-up to landmark presidential polls. Following the arrest of 320 people after Friday's clashes near the defence ministry in Cairo, the prosecution "has decided to hold 179 people, including
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At least two people were killed on Friday in fierce clashes between anti-military protesters and soldiers in Cairo and nearly 300 others wounded, hospital officials and medics said. Egypt's military rulers imposed an overnight curfew around the defence ministry in central Cairo where the skirmishes occurred and the military prosecution announced that 170 people were arrested. The clashes erupted just
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Cairo - Protesters and soldiers threw rocks at each other over a barbed wire barricade near the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday, with several protesters injured, AFP reporters said. Bleeding protesters were ferried away by motorbike by fellow demonstrators and ambulances rushed to the scene of the anti-military rally. Islamist and secular protesters had gathered in Abbassiya near the
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Cairo - Egyptian activists have called for anti-military demonstrations across the country on Friday, days after bloody clashes near the defence ministry left at least nine people dead. Several pro-democracy movements, including 06 April, as well as the powerful Muslim Brotherhood said they would be joining the protests in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, amid a tense political
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Cairo - Egypt's worst violence in months has escalated the confrontation between political forces and the ruling military ahead of a landmark presidential election, as suspected army supporters attacked mainly Islamist protesters outside the Defence Ministry, sparking clashes that left at least 11 people dead. Political parties swiftly blamed the ruling generals for the bloodshed and vowed the election must
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Egypt's army was to deploy troops in central Cairo on Wednesday to quell clashes near the defence ministry that left eight people dead according to a new toll, a military source told AFP. "Troops will intervene to quell the clashes between protesters in Abbassiya," the source said. Doctors at a field hospital in the area told AFP the death toll
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Cairo - Five people were killed on Wednesday when attackers stormed an anti-military protest near the defence ministry headquarters in Cairo, medics and a security official said. The dawn assault sparked fierce clashes between the unidentified attackers and the protesters who have been there for days calling for an end to military rule, with both sides hurling petrol bombs and
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The Egyptian authorities must protect protesters in the run-up to presidential elections on 23 May, Amnesty International said today. A violent attack on protesters in Cairo on Saturday night reportedly left one person dead and scores injured. The attack, carried out by an unknown group of people, led to clashes which lasted into Sunday morning. "The Egyptian authorities have three
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Cairo - Campaigning for Egypt's presidential election next month officially began on Monday, with Islamists and liberal secularists expected to dominate. Official campaigning, during which candidates can display their posters in public and broadcast their messages on television, will last until 21 May, 48 hours before polls open for the first round of voting, on May 23 and 24. A
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Egypt's hardline Islamic fundamentalist party Al-Nur has decided to support a moderate ex-Muslim Brotherhood member in next month's presidential election, the party announced on Saturday. Al-Nur's parliamentary group "has decided to back Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh for the presidency of the republic," an Al-Nur statement said. Abol Fotouh is a former senior leader of the Brotherhood which expelled him from
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Cairo - Hundreds of Islamists are rallying in Cairo to denounce the ruling military council and demand that Hosni Mubarak-era politicians be barred from running in the presidential elections next month. Friday's protest is the third this month by the country's Islamist forces that have come into an open confrontation with the military rulers who took over after Mubarak's ouster
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