Egyptian democracy campaign turns bitter
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CAIRO -- Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.
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The campaign was a bitter stew of allegations and occasional violence. Yet last weekend's wild-style presidential election which ended in deadlock "shows encouraging signs for the development of Ukrainian democracy," international election observers said.
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The Gaza border crisis caused another sharp flap Thursday in Egyptian-Israeli relations, with Egypt angrily accusing Israel of trying to dump all responsibility for the troubled Gaza Strip in its lap.
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A bitter political struggle has erupted over control of the special Iraqi tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his associates, with Prime Minister
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Dozens of losing candidates in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections complained Saturday that the winners in the capital, Riyadh, unfairly used the endorsement of influential Islamic leaders to secure victory.
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Circumcision, as supporters call it, or female genital mutilation, as opponents refer to it, was suddenly a ferocious focus of debate in Egypt this summer.
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CAIRO -- About 1,000 people gathered downtown yesterday, many with their mouths covered by yellow stickers reading ''Enough,&quot; to protest the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak might run for a fifth term or that his son, Gamal, might succeed him.
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The campaigns and the outside groups supporting them are taking a confrontational advertising war into grim territory.
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Egypt is generating new hope for Mideast peace after four bleak years, transforming Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from pariah to peacemaker and seeking to draw Arab leaders and a wary public into its efforts.
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The doors are now closed at an Egyptian human rights law group at the forefront of court battles over accusations of torture in Egypt's jails, shut by the state on suspicion of illegally receiving funds from abroad.
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Egypt's largest Islamic opposition group is asserting itself as the main challenger to President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime, overshadowing secular reform groups a year after winning nearly one-fifth the seats in parliament.
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A day after jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti shocked his compatriots by announcing that he will run for president, many Palestinians denounced him yesterday for endangering unity and a smooth transition of power in the post-Yasser Arafat era.
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The renaming of Durbanâs landmarks has become a political brouhaha of the first order, and an object lesson in the pitfalls of building South African democracy.
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The Fatah leader has popular support, but faces lawlessness and other challenges.
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Jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti threw Palestinian politics into disarray today when he decided to run for president, reversing an earlier decision.
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Police stopped Egyptians voting on Monday in areas where the opposition Muslim Brotherhood is strong, in the first elections under an amended constitution designed to push the Islamists out of politics.
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CAIRO, Jan. 16 -- President Bush on Wednesday ended a Middle East tour that political activists saw as lacking the strong calls for democratization made earlier in his administration, disappointing those once encouraged by the statements of American leaders. In Egypt and elsewhere, people are...