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Egypt's crisis widens with planned march, strikes
Egypt's political crisis is widening, with plans for a huge march and a general strike Tuesday to protest the hurried drafting of a new constitution ...
Egypt's highest court joins judicial strike
Egypt's highest court has joined a judicial rebellion against President Mohammed Morsi by declaring an open-ended strike on the day it was supposed ...
Egypt's president sets date for constitution vote
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi called Saturday for a referendum in two weeks on a contentious draft constitution, setting a date for another ...
Egypt draft constitution sparks mass protest
Protesters flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in the second giant rally this week, angrily vowing to bring down a draft constitution approved by ...
Egypt Islamists hurriedly approve new constitution
Islamists approved a draft constitution for Egypt early Friday without the participation of liberal and Christian members, seeking to pre-empt a court ...
Egypt: IMF deal not endangered by political unrest
Egypt's foreign minister says the political unrest roiling his country after President Mohammed Morsi seized more power should not affect Egypt's ...
Egypt crisis raises fears of 'second revolution'
Faced with an unprecedented strike by the courts and massive opposition protests, Egypt's Islamist president is not backing down in the showdown over ...
Egypt judges strike to protest president's decrees
In an escalation of the tug-of-war between Egypt's president and the powerful judiciary, judges in the country's top courts went on strike Wednesday ...
Egypt stocks drops again after president's decree
Egypt's benchmark stock index has plunged again in the second major drop since Islamist president Mohammed Morsi issued decrees to assume far-ranging ...
Egyptian courts suspend work to protest Morsi move
Egypt's highest appeal courts suspended their work Wednesday to protest presidential decrees that gave the country's Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi ...
Egypt mass protests challenge Islamist president
The same chants used against Hosni Mubarak were turned against his successor Tuesday as more than 200,000 people packed Egypt's Tahrir Square in the ...
With Egypt's Morsi, US facing a familiar dilemma
The United States has been here before, praising an Egyptian leader for championing Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts while expressing concern over ...
Correction: Egypt story
In a story Nov. 25 about Egypt, The Associated Press misidentified reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei as a former director of the U.S. nuclear agency.
Egypt's president stands by his decrees
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi struck an uncompromising stand Monday over his seizure of near absolute powers, refusing in a meeting with top ...
ElBaradei warns of Egypt turmoil from Morsi decree
Prominent Egyptian democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei warned Saturday of increasing turmoil that could potentially lead to the military stepping ...
Egypt clashes as president defends his new powers
Supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give ...
Gaza crowds surge at Israel border fence, 1 dead
Israeli troops fired on Gazans surging toward Israel's border fence Friday, killing one person but leaving intact the fragile two-day-old cease-fire ...
A look at powers decreed by Egypt's president
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi issued decrees giving himself broad powers and effectively neutering the judiciary. Morsi, an Islamist hailing from ...
Analysis: With cease-fire, US pins hopes on Egypt
In Egypt we trust. In frantic diplomacy, the Obama administration helped seal a cease-fire that puts heavy responsibility on Egypt's young Islamist ...
Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers
Egypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had ...
Egypt Brotherhood leader blasts peace with Israel
The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounced peace efforts with Israel and urged holy war to liberate Palestinian territories on Thursday ...
Hamas cries victory; truce with Israel holds
Hamas leaders and thousands of flag-waving supporters declared victory over Israel on Gaza's first day of calm under an Egyptian-brokered truce ...
Hamas emerges with gains from Israeli offensive
Hamas has emerged from battle with the triumphal sense of a hard-won game change: By stopping its offensive when it did, Israel's hard-line government ...
Winners and losers from Gaza fighting
After eight days of the fiercest fighting in years, a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers could usher in a new era ...
Gaza deal seals major role for Egypt's president
The Gaza cease-fire deal reached Wednesday marks a startling trajectory for Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi: an Islamist leader who refuses to talk ...