Qina, Egypt News

In a village on the outskirts of this southern hub, Hala Ali smiled Thursday morning after a casual act of defiance at the ballot box.

Alexander Nubia International Inc. is pleased to announce results that assayed high grade gold and zinc values in the Western Zone at its Hamama gold-zinc volcanogenic massive sulphide property in Egypt.

In this July 24, 2008 file photo, President-elect Barack Obama waves as he arrives at the Victory Column in Berlin.

"....his attackers demanded he say the Shahada, the Islamic creed for conversion, and that when he refused, they cut off his ear." "They thought that I was dead, so then they called the police and said, 'We took our sharia [Islamic law] rights, now you come and take your civil rights from him.'" A judge in Upper Egypt has dismissed all charges ... (more)

Judith Miller's Perspective: Egypt's former foreign minister and ex-head of the Arab League who is the front-runner in the country's upcoming presidential elections, called Israel's new coalition government a "war cabinet" that could make an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities more likely.

Egyptian presidential candidate and former Arab League chief Amr Mussa attends a campaign rally in the southern city of Qena on April 28, 2012.