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Ailing Egypt seeks $4.8 billion IMF loan
Egypt formally asked the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8 billion loan on Wednesday, seeking a desperately needed rescue package for its ...
Israel says Egypt violating peace treaty in Sinai
Israel objected Tuesday to a move by Egypt's new leaders to deploy tanks in a volatile border area, calling the action a violation of the landmark ...
Egypt president to visit Iran, a first in decades
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi will attend a summit in Iran later this month, a presidential official said on Saturday, the first such trip for an ...
Syria war tipping Mideast balance toward Sunnis
Not long ago, Arabs everywhere listened when the leader of Hezbollah spoke. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah's prominence, bolstered by his Lebanese guerrilla ...
With new chief, new generation in Egypt military
With the surprising easy removal of Egypt's top brass, Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi tapped into discontent among the military's younger ...
Egypt's most extreme hardliners in Sinai revival
A fringe group so extreme that it worries even Egypt's Muslim ultraconservatives is secretly reviving itself with greater firepower and followers in ...
Egypt's president has powers that rival Mubarak's
Egypt's Islamist president has given himself the right to legislate and control over the drafting of a new constitution. He has installed at the top ...
Egypt newspaper censored over insult to president
An Egyptian court ordered the Saturday editions of a newspaper confiscated over allegations it insulted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and ...
Libya's transitional rulers hand over power
In a ceremony late Wednesday, Libya's first elected assembly took over power from the transitional council that has ruled the country since last ...
Egypt fires intelligence chief over Sinai attack
Egypt's president fired his intelligence chief on Wednesday for failing to act on an Israeli warning of an imminent attack days before militants ...
Egypt buries 16 soldiers slain in border attack
Egypt on Tuesday buried the 16 soldiers killed by suspected Islamist militants near the borders with Gaza and Israel, as pressure built on Egypt's ...
New Egypt government puts Brotherhood in key posts
Egypt's Islamist president swore in his first new government Thursday, led by a devout Muslim and including five members of his Muslim Brotherhood in ...
Egypt official: leader's letter to Israel is fake
A letter to Israel from Egypt's new president hoping for regional peace kicked up a stir Tuesday when the Egyptian leader's Islamist movement denied ...
Panetta: Egypt's leaders promise full democracy
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta left meetings with Egypt's new leaders Tuesday with an optimistic outlook for the valuable American ally emerging ...
Egypt's president faces backlash from allies
An alliance of pro-democracy advocates on Saturday criticized Egypt's new Islamist president for unilaterally choosing a prime minister with no track ...
Egypt's president meets Hamas leader
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi met for the first time with Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, an offshoot of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Correction: Egypt story
In a story July 24 about Egypt's new prime minister designate, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Hesham Kandil received his master's and ...
Egypt TV channel caters to fully veiled women
The only visible female face in the Cairo-based studio of a new Islamic TV channel for women is that of a puppet. The human stars are all veiled from ...
Egypt's ex-spy chief Omar Suleiman dies
Democracy activists denounced plans for a military funeral honoring Egypt's former spy chief Omar Suleiman, who was the ousted President Hosni ...
Rebel bombing strikes at heart of Syrian regime
Rebels penetrated the heart of Syria's power elite Wednesday, detonating a bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed three ...
Libya's independents might emerge as third power
Libya's elections have brought in a large new political generation of independents — businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles — who ...
McCain defends Clinton aide against allegations
Republican Sen. John McCain on Wednesday strongly defended a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton against unsubstantiated ...
Libya election results put liberal alliance first
Final results released Tuesday placed a liberal alliance ahead of other parties in Libya's first free nationwide vote in half a century, leaving ...
Egypt court delays key ruling amid protests
A court on Tuesday postponed issuing a key ruling on whether a Muslim Brotherhood-led panel tasked with writing Egypt's new constitution is legal, ...