Egyptian police detain dozens of Islamists before vote
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Egyptian police detained dozens of Muslim  Brotherhood members on Wednesday, security officials said,  escalating a crackdown against the country's strongest  opposition group ahead of local elections in April.
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Before the election, the government mobilized groups of thugs to harass voters. On the day of the election, police prevented thousands of opposition activists from voting at all.
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Egyptian police detained the deputy leader of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, about 10 other prominent members and scores of Brotherhood students in dawn raids on Thursday, Brotherhood and police sources said.
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Egypt arrests several foreigners including European, US and Arab nationals linked to terror groups, officials say.
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Egyptian police detained the deputy  leader of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, about 10 other  prominent members and scores of Brotherhood students in dawn  raids on Thursday, Brotherhood and police sources said.
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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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Morocco banned an Islamist party on Wednesday after authorities linked its leader to what they called a terrorist network rounded up by police this week.
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Israeli police on Monday briefly arrested a Palestinian presidential candidate as he campaigned in Jerusalem, hours after Israel released almost 160 Palestinian prisoners as an apparent act of goodwill toward Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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As Iraqis voted, Egypt was cracking down on political dissidents.
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Pakistani authorities tightened security at Islamabad's airport after detaining more than 2,000 supporters of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his party said on Sunday, the eve of his planned return.
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Israeli forces detained two Palestinians,   who the army said were Hamas militants, in the Gaza Strip on   Saturday in what marked the first such arrest raid in the   territory since Israel pulled out of Gaza a year ago.
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Moroccan police have detained 15 radical Islamists on suspicions of plotting terror attacks in the North African country, the justice minister said.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood says at least 73 members have been arrested in overnight raids.
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Pakistani authorities tightened security at Islamabad's airport and have detained more than 2,000 supporters of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his party said on Sunday, the eve of his planned return.
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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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TABA, Egypt - Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue from the sites of three car bombings Saturday and detained dozens of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have provided the explosives that killed at least
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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.