Police prevent Egyptians from voting
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Police on Monday stopped Egyptians voting in some areas where the opposition Muslim Brotherhood is strong, in the first elections under an amended constitution that makes life harder for the Islamists.
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Millions of U.S. citizens, including  a disproportionate number of black voters, will be blocked from  voting in the Nov. 2 presidential election because of legal  barriers, faulty procedures or dirty tricks, according to civil  rights and legal experts.
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Egypt has cancelled political talks with senior European Union officials after a European Parliament resolution criticised the state of human rights in Egypt, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
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A federal judge blocked enforcement Tuesday of a Florida law that prevents people from registering to vote if officials cannot match their Social Security or driver's license numbers to federal or state databases.
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The United States said on Wednesday it was troubled by reports Egyptian police stopped people from voting in a parliamentary election this week in areas where the opposition Muslim Brotherhood is strong.
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Egypt's foreign minister said Saturday that his country would not invite Iraqi opposition groups to a high-level conference on Iraqi elections planned next month at an Egyptian resort.
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KHARTOUM : Sudan&#39;s military-backed government imposed a security clampdown after announcing that it had foiled a coup attempt by supporters of its now jailed former Islamist ally Hassan al-Turabi.
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Fights broke out at the gate of al-Azhar  mosque in Cairo on Friday when plainclothes security men  stopped demonstrators taking to the streets with a protest  against Israeli attacks on Lebanese and Palestinians.
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One man was killed on Monday in a clash between supporters of rival candidates as Egyptians voted in an election for parliament&#39;s upper house amid a massive crackdown on the main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Egyptians waving banners and chanting slogans against President Hosni Mubarak staged a protest in Cairo to call for politicial reforms, watched by several thousand police.
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WEBSITES CLOSE to Iran&#39;s leading reformist party have been blocked by religious hardliners in the police bureau of public morals.
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Israel on Saturday denied entry to Egypt to a first batch of 85 Palestinian security personnel due to receive training in readiness for a planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip, Egyptian border police told the French AFP news agency.
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Egyptian security forces detained 80 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday in sweeps at dawn, intensifying a clampdown against the government's most powerful political rival.
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Egypt cuts off supplies to its border zone with Gaza to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area.
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Civilians and soldiers living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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The Egyptian government has intensified arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members ahead of elections to the upper house of parliament, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
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Police have blocked a Singaporean opposition politician ofrom holding a march through the city to protest restrictions on freedom of speech ahead of the IMF-World Bank meetings.