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EGYPT: Mubarak denies accusations of killing protesters
Babylon & BeyondEgyptian former President Hosni Mubarak has denied ordering police officers to kill protesters during the 18-day uprising that ended with his ouster Feb.11, according to interrogation transcripts leaked to the media. Quotes from the questioning of Mubarak... -
EGYPT: Protests continue but activists divided over goals
Babylon & BeyondThousands of demonstrators continued their weeklong sit-in across Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday as more than 28 protest movements called for a “final warning” against the nation's ruling military council to make sweeping reforms and... -
EGYPT: Hosni Mubarak has stomach cancer, his lawyer says
Babylon & BeyondToppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has cancer, according to his lawyer, who disclosed the news less than two months before Mubarak is to stand trial, accused of financial corruption and allowing security forces to kill hundreds of protesters who... -
PASSINGS: Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Elaine Stewart
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Pioneering Egyptologist saved antiquities from Aswan flooding
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, 97, a pioneering French Egyptologist who helped salvage Nubia's vaunted antiquities from flooding caused by the construction...Tags: Travel, Alex Trebek, Movies, University of Paris, UNESCO
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EGYPT: Christian tycoon faces wave of Muslim anger over bearded Mickey Mouse photo
Babylon & BeyondA picture of Mickey Mouse with long beard and Minnie with a full-face veil posted on businessman Naguib Sawiris’ Twitter account has enraged Muslims and prompted 15 lawyers to file a lawsuit against him for blasphemy and insulting Islam. The...... -
Egyptians race to capture the spirit of Tahrir Square
The questioner reads evenly from a script.
"Please give me your name and your age."
"My name is Sameh Eldesoky and I am 21 years old."
Eldesoky sits back, hands on his knees, trying to relax, trying to forget that a tiny microphone is clamped to the...Tags: Politics, Ministry (music group), Mass Media, Colleges and Universities, Cairo (Egypt)
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PASSINGS: Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack
British actress on stage, screen and television
Margaret Tyzack, 79, a British actress perhaps best known to American audiences for her roles in the acclaimed BBC television series "The Forsyte Saga" and "I, Claudius," died Saturday in...Tags: Derek Jacobi, Travel, Alex Trebek, Laurence Olivier, Political Corruption
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EGYPT: Draft laws for mosques and churches face criticism
Babylon & BeyondAlthough new laws regulating the construction of houses of worship have been sought by politicians and human rights advocates long before the Jan. 25 revolution, there has been little progress toward passing such regulations. A draft law proposes that... -
Obama sees 'moment of opportunity' in Middle East
President Obama on Thursday called out American friends in the Middle East for their treatment of peaceful protesters, naming Bahrain and Yemen along with Syria as states he said must yield to the aspirations of their people.
While explicitly stating...Tags: Politics, North Africa, Israel, Religious Conflicts, Bashar Assad
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Late night jokes: Second recession coming, but when did the first one leave?
Top of the TicketA near miss for Earth and a cruising meteor.... -
Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears
We may be the world's only remaining superpower, but we've been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.
Tunisia held its revolution without American help, unless you count Facebook and Twitter. In Egypt, President Obama probably...Tags: Muammar Gaddafi, Politics, Tunisia, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu
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