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Egypt
Port workers in Suez refuse to receive initial seven ton shipment as the interior ministry looks to restock after firing tear gas at protesters in Egypt for six days last week
Missing ballot papers and judges and violence at three polling stations cast a cloud over first day of parliamentary elections
Despite the Salafist posters covering the school walls, many voters said they would not be voting for Islamist candidates
But more than half the ballots were disqualified by embassy officials because of voting errors
Tahrir Square is clamped-down and citizens are expected to vote in an ambiance of a tense war-zone, indeed, where police recently attacked thousands and killed over 35
ElBaradei willing to give up presidential bid to guarantee trust and neutrality during transitional period as political forces united to up the pressure on Egypt's ruling military junta  
Tahrir Square protest against military rule continues on first day of landmark vote, albeit with vastly reduced numbers

Ninth attack on Sinai pipeline supplying gas to Israel this year

While he won't face a military trial, blogger and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah will be tried in a state security court, which may be worse

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Head of the ruling military council in Egypt hastens to meet representatives of prominent parties and movements only hours before planned 'constitutional legitimacy' rally

Amidst massive protests in Egypt against what is regarded as farcical elections on Monday and replace the ruling military junta with a salvation government, the legal assist. to the defence minister argues to keep the status quo

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