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Thousands protest in Egypt after week of deadly riots
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CAIRO -- Thousands of Egyptians protested Friday after a week of deadly riots that have shaken President Mohamed Morsi’s grip on the nation and spurred fears that fresh unrest may lead to economic collapse. [Updated at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 1: The...Tags: Egyptian Protests (2012), U.S. Embassy, Nobel Prize Awards, Mohamed Morsi, Entertainment Events
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Iran arrests more than a dozen journalists
TEHRAN - More than a dozen journalists were arrested in Iran on Sunday and Monday, reportedly detained for ties to foreign Farsi-language outlets, according to Iranian media. The wave of arrests marks a new crackdown on the media in Iran, five months...
Tags: BBC, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Police Arrests, Elections, Iran
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Egyptian human rights group says police abuses continue
CAIRO — An Egyptian human rights groups reported this week that torture and police brutality, which helped spark a national uprising two years ago, have continued under the new Islamist-led government. Over the course of 2011 and 2012, the...Tags: Justice and Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mohamed Morsi, Human Rights, Politics
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Sundance 2013: In Egypt doc 'The Square,' a new kind of muckraking
PARK CITY, Utah -- The bullets and tear-gas pellets were flying at Jehane Noujaim, but instead of scrambling backward with the rest of the Cairo protesters, the documentary filmmaker walked forward into the smoky haze, where hundreds of gas mask-clad...
Tags: The Square (movie), Khalid Abdalla, Activism, Politics, Sundance Film Festival
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Gun control only hurts the law-abiding
Restricting guns from law-abiding citizens (exclusive of the mentally ill) is an assault on our rights as Americans that cannot be tolerated. Historically, the very first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired over the British trying to confiscate...
Tags: Interior Policy, Freedom of the Press, Glen Burnie, Politics, Gun Control
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‘Halo 4,’ ‘Assassin’s Creed III’ up for WGA video game award
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comMaster Chief and Mickey Mouse just snagged an invitation to one of Hollywood's glitzy awards season soirees. “Assassin's Creed III” ...... -
Review: 'Uprising' details the Egyptian revolution
That the Egyptian revolution of early 2011 was launched via Facebook is just one of the many extraordinary aspects of the whirlwind movement that effectively ended the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The long-simmering events that led to this...
Tags: Entertainment, Yemen, Movies, Hosni Mubarak, Arab Spring
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Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Career and Workplace, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Crimes, Activism
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Egypt's Coptic pope enthroned amid concern for Christian minority
CAIRO — Amid months of sectarian unease, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church enthroned its new pope Sunday in an ornate, three-hour ceremony attended by top officials from the nation’s Islamist-led government. Tawadros II, 60, was chosen the...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Egypt, Minority Groups, Hosni Mubarak
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Bethlehem's city officials disrespect Old Glory
If the American flag is not important, why run it up a flagpole in the first place? If the city of Bethlehem has other higher priorities at the moment, such as Christmas decorations, why not put the flag away for a few weeks instead of desecrating it?...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Human Interest, American Legion, Wars and Interventions
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Critics Wonder if Morsy is Egypt's Next Strongman
CNNCAIRO, Egypt -- The sun rises over Cairo, and the city's landmark Tahrir Square is buzzing. Not with traffic, not with commerce, but with protest -- a tent city packed with people rife with anger at a man they blast as a dictatorial president, one who put...Tags: Jihad, Politics, Justice System, Cairo (Egypt), Judges
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Symbol of PA gas drilling opposition succumbs to offer of money
You have to give Denise Dennis some credit. She did not come cheap. The price tag she put on her virtue is about the same as the amount Gov. Tom Corbett took to sell his soul — or Pennsylvania's soul, that is — to the gas drilling robber...Tags: Energy Resources, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slavery, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation
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