Al Bahr Al Ahmar, Egypt News

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The Syrian town of Houla prepares a mass burial for the victims of an alleged artillery barrage from Assad forces.

Next to what is going down in Egypt now , Mubarak is looking more and more like a cross between Ataturk and Schweitzer.

Dr Bassem Youssef, now a household name on Egyptian TV, says the main aim of his satirical show is to get citizens more involved in politics Egypt's first satirical TV show started as an amateur video broadcast from the Cairo flat of a surgeon in the aftermath of the Tahrir Square clashes.

Cairo: May 24, 2012. The verdict passed by the Minya Criminal Court on May 21 convicting 12 Copts to life imprisonment while acquitting eight accused Muslims in the same case, known as Abu Qurqas sedition, has caused widespread anger among the Copts.

Talks in Baghdad concerning Iran's controversial nuclear programme will go into an unscheduled second day after diplomats failed to reach agreement.

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BENI SUEF, Egypt - Amr Moussa stood on a rickety stage, battling the summer heat and feedback from a defective microphone, promising the Egyptian people the world.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said he expects to sign a deal with Iran soon on investigating suspected weapons activities connected to the country's nuclear programme.

Egyptian presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafik, written off by many as a contender because of his service as Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, is enjoying renewed buzz around his candidacy, helped by favorable coverage on state TV, the results of a survey in a respected Cairo newspaper, and what appears to be growing disenchantment with his ... (more)

As Moses once led his people out of Egypt to Mt. Sinai, church leaders in a post-Mubarak era are discovering how to guide the largest Christian population in the Middle East against new threats and become good neighbors CAIRO - On a bright Sunday morning in Nasr City, a district of Cairo, millions of Egyptians begin a typical workday: Women in ... (more)

Egypt's first free presidential election is a week away. The 13 candidates - those with name recognition and those whose mention draws puzzled expressions - have been set loose upon the land with staffs and stickers, flags and banners, and sound bites that sometimes go astray.

As a tune-up for the upcoming Republican National Convention in Tampa later this summer, the Islamic Society of North America hosted a regional conference there this past weekend to rally supporters for the upcoming elections.

Templo de Debod constitutes one of the few works of ancient Egyptian architecture which can be seen outside Egypt.

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Besides heading United West, Tom Trento is the executive director of the Florida Security Council; both organizations "specialize in international or Islamic Society of North America has been described by Islamic scholar Stephen Schwartz as "one of the chief conduits through which the radical Saudi form of Islam passes into the United States." ... (more)

Mohammed Nassir It's been one year since Ethiopia commenced the construction of the Renaissance Dam under the Nile River.

Life pulses with uneasy tension in the land of the pharaohs. Ever since last year's Arab Spring forced out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, daily life in Egypt turned stressful.