Egyptian Coptic protesters freed
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Thirteen Coptic Christians detained after clashes with police at a recent Cairo demonstration have been released.
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An Egyptian Muslim preacher allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italian city and taken to Egypt has been released, his lawyer and a security official said Monday.
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Egyptian troops seal the border with the Gaza Strip, ending 10 days of freedom of movement for Palestinians.
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Myanmar's military government has freed all but one of 52 people detained for holding prayer vigils for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said on Thursday.
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Egypt said Tuesday that Iraqi kidnappers had freed one Egyptian hostage and were expected to release three others shortly. The holding company that employed the four hostages confirmed that
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Egyptian security forces detained 73 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 and Israel completed a prisoner swap under which six Egyptian students held for plotting attacks on soldiers were freed in return for the release by Egypt of an Israeli Druze held for spying.
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CAIRO -- Egyptian authorities have released a Muslim cleric kidnapped in a suspected CIA operation in Italy and handed to Egypt, the cleric's lawyer said yesterday.
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Most of the 33 Iranian women activists arrested earlier in the week in Tehran have been freed from jail.
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Egyptian police sealed Gaza's border with huge metal spikes and shipping containers Sunday, restoring a tight blockade after a breach that allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to cross freely for 12 days.
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Authorities on Saturday released 55 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood who had spent up to 20 years in jail, a human rights group said.
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A major thorn in the side of Israeli-Egyptian relations was removed after Cairo freed an Israeli Druze jailed seven years ago for spying and the Jewish state released six Egyptian students.
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The junta in Burma releases at least 70 people detained during recent protests, opposition party officials say.
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Myanmar's ruling generals have freed  their second most prominent political prisoner, Min Ko Naing,  leader of student democracy protests in 1988, a source close to  his family said on Saturday.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel said yesterday it would free 170 jailed Palestinians in a gesture of gratitude for Egypt's release two weeks ago of an Israeli Arab imprisoned for spying.
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Israel said yesterday it would free 170 jailed Palestinians in a gesture of gratitude for Egypt&#39;s release two weeks ago of an Israeli Arab imprisoned for spying.
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Hundreds of Egyptian Christians have been protesting at the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo.