http://www.mail.com/people/1508-mohamed-elbaradei.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/1508-mohamed-elbaradei.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2101898-egypt-leader-claims-victory-captives-release.html CAIRO (AP) — The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's Islamist president after months of criticism that his government is mismanaging the country. Seated with top military brass and senior officials, an animated Mohammed Morsi lauded the release as a show of how unified and stro... Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2101898-egypt-leader-claims-victory-captives-release.html 2013-05-22T20:42:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2054530-elbaradei-egypt-leader-will-opposition-help.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's leading opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday he believes the Islamist president will eventually be forced to reach out to the opposition because his group is losing support and isn't able to tackle the country's myriad problems alone. ElBaradei, speaking to a small group of journalists including The Associated Press at his... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:38:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2054530-elbaradei-egypt-leader-will-opposition-help.html 2013-04-30T22:38:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2028658-egypts-opposition-split-election-boycott.html CAIRO (AP) — A split erupted Thursday in Egypt's main liberal opposition bloc, the National Salvation Front, over whether to go ahead with a boycott of parliamentary elections or reverse course and participate. A joint statement indicating cancellation of the boycott brought a quick retort from other leaders, insisting that their participating in the elec... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:08:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2028658-egypts-opposition-split-election-boycott.html 2013-04-18T20:08:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2004884-violence-egypt-opposition-presses-morsi.html CAIRO (AP) — After Egypt's worst sectarian violence in months left seven dead the past two days, Egypt's leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei on Monday called on the Islamist president to make serious concessions to bring the opposition into decision-making, saying national reconciliation is the only way out of the country's myriad problems. The vi... Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:24:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2004884-violence-egypt-opposition-presses-morsi.html 2013-04-08T20:24:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1988186-egypt-issues-arrest-warrant-tv-satirist.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state prosecutors ordered the arrest Saturday of a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's leader, in a move that government opponents say is aimed at silencing critics of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The arrest warrant for against Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewar... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:03:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1988186-egypt-issues-arrest-warrant-tv-satirist.html 2013-03-30T21:03:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1986668-protest-clashes-cairo-2-egyptian-cities.html ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Clashes erupted Friday in two cities in northern Egypt, and protesters rallied in Cairo in the latest demonstrations against Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, who claims the recent wave of anti-government unrest is the work of conspirators. In the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, hundreds of unidentified assailants threw... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:15:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1986668-protest-clashes-cairo-2-egyptian-cities.html 2013-03-29T21:15:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1977700-egypt-top-prosecutor-orders-arrest-5-activists.html CAIRO (AP) — After Egypt's Islamist president vowed action against opponents, the nation's top prosecutor on Monday issued arrest warrants against five prominent activists over clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood and protesters. The warrants heightened the latest in a series of crises plaguing this nation of some 90 million since the ouster of autocrat... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:24:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1977700-egypt-top-prosecutor-orders-arrest-5-activists.html 2013-03-25T21:24:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1975524-violence-egypt-groups-blame.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's political groups blamed one another on Saturday for one of the year's worst bouts of violence between supporters and opponents of the president's Muslim Brotherhood group. The powerful Brotherhood said it holds the opposition partly responsible for giving "political cover" to "thugs" who attacked and beat hundreds of the group's membe... Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:32:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1975524-violence-egypt-groups-blame.html 2013-03-23T20:32:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1960738-egypt-vigilantes-hang-2-thieves-feet-public.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian vigilantes beat two men accused of stealing a motorized rickshaw on Sunday and then hung them by their feet while some in a watching crowd chanted "kill them!" Both men died, security officials said. The killings come a week after the attorney general's office encouraged civilians to arrest lawbreakers and hand them over to police. T... Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:40:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1960738-egypt-vigilantes-hang-2-thieves-feet-public.html 2013-03-17T20:40:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1935214-court-suspends-egypts-parliament-election.html CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Wednesday ordered the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in April, opening a legal battle likely to delay the vote and deepening the political crisis between the Islamist president and his opponents that has polarized the nation for months. The new confusion surrounding the election underlined the pa... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:59:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1935214-court-suspends-egypts-parliament-election.html 2013-03-06T19:59:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1925608-with-kerry-way-egypt-liberals-angry-us.html CAIRO (AP) — As John Kerry heads to Egypt on Saturday for his first visit as secretary of state, he faces a barrage of accusations from liberal and secular Egyptians who say Washington is siding with the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the country's sharp political divisions. The United States has had its own frustrations with the mainly liberal and secular ... Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:27:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1925608-with-kerry-way-egypt-liberals-angry-us.html 2013-03-01T20:27:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1912222-egypts-vote-wont-calm-turbulent-streets.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's streets are turning into a daily forum for airing a range of social discontents from labor conditions to fuel shortages and the casualties of myriad clashes over the past two years. Parliamentary elections called over the weekend by the Islamist president hold out little hope for plucking the country out of the turmoil. If anything, t... Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:25:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1912222-egypts-vote-wont-calm-turbulent-streets.html 2013-02-25T02:25:04Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1909998-egypt-opposition-leader-calls-election-boycott.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei called Saturday for a boycott of parliamentary elections, drawing immediate criticism from some within his movement who said it was a hasty decision. The dispute showed the fragility of a fairly new opposition front forged after the deeply fragmented movement found little success at the polls since... Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:08:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1909998-egypt-opposition-leader-calls-election-boycott.html 2013-02-23T19:08:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1907602-egypt-opposition-election-will-add-to-tensions.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president set parliamentary elections to begin in April — a decision that an opposition leader denounced Friday as "a recipe for disaster" because of the ongoing political turmoil in the country. About 15,000 people took to the streets in the Suez Canal city of Port Said to demonstrate against President Mohammed Morsi, hanging effigie... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:23:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1907602-egypt-opposition-election-will-add-to-tensions.html 2013-02-22T20:23:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1880518-fear-assassinations-haunt-egypt-opposition.html CAIRO (AP) — Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt's liberal opposition are fearfully asking: Could it happen here too? Their fears of a renegade Islamist attack on any of the top opposition leaders have been hiked by religious edicts issued by hardline clerics on TV say... Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1880518-fear-assassinations-haunt-egypt-opposition.html 2013-02-09T20:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1877528-protests-turn-to-street-clashes-egypt.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while demonstrators clashed with riot police in cities across the country in marches against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The protests are part of a wave of opposition-led demonstrations over the... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1877528-protests-turn-to-street-clashes-egypt.html 2013-02-08T19:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1874930-fatwas-security-hiked-egypt-opposition.html CAIRO (AP) — One hardline Muslim cleric on an Egyptian TV station justified sexual assaults on women protesters. Others issued religious edicts saying opposition leaders must be killed. Television screeds by ultraconservative sheiks are raising fears of assassinations here a day after a top anti-Islamist politician was gunned down in Tunisia. Egyptian sec... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1874930-fatwas-security-hiked-egypt-opposition.html 2013-02-07T22:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1872598-egypt-opposition-leader-warns-death-edict.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's most prominent opposition leader criticized the Islamist government on Wednesday for its silence over a Muslim cleric's edict calling for the death of opposition supporters. Mohamed ElBaradei was responding to well-known ultraconservative cleric Mahmoud Shaaban, who said in a TV show last week that the opposition should be punished by... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1872598-egypt-opposition-leader-warns-death-edict.html 2013-02-06T20:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861522-palace-egypt-protesters-police-clash.html CAIRO (AP) — Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time. The streets outside the presidential palace w... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861522-palace-egypt-protesters-police-clash.html 2013-02-01T22:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1854476-whos-who-egypts-latest-political-crisis.html CAIRO (AP) — Following are the main players in Egypt's latest political crisis, which began around the time of the second anniversary of the start of the uprising against Hosni Mubarak's rule. At least 60 people have died so far in political violence. — President Mohammed Morsi, the longtime Muslim Brotherhood figure who became Egypt's first freely electe... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1854476-whos-who-egypts-latest-political-crisis.html 2013-01-29T20:51:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847140-angry-protests-leave-7-dead-egypt-anniversary.html CAIRO (AP) — Violence erupted across Egypt on Friday as tens of thousands took to the streets to deliver an angry backlash against President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood, demanding regime change on the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak. At least seven people were killed. Two years to the day after protesters firs... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:27:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847140-angry-protests-leave-7-dead-egypt-anniversary.html 2013-01-26T01:27:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845386-angry-protests-clashes-egypt-anniversary.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians delivered an angry backlash against President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood on Friday, marking the second anniversary of the start of the country's revolution with tens of thousands filling major squares and streets around the country to call for a new regime change. Two years to the day that protesters first rose up aga... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1845386-angry-protests-clashes-egypt-anniversary.html 2013-01-25T21:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1842846-clashes-egypt-eve-uprising-anniversary.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and protesters hurled stones and Molotov cocktails in a day-long demonstration on Thursday, raising fears of a violent anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. Youth activists and opposition groups have called for large rallies on the anniversary Fri... Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1842846-clashes-egypt-eve-uprising-anniversary.html 2013-01-24T20:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1785772-ap-interview-egypt-liberal-objects-to-charter.html CAIRO (AP) — One of Egypt's leading opposition figures on Monday pledged continued resistance to his country's Islamist-oriented constitution even if it is declared to have passed, contending that the process was fundamentally illegitimate. Unofficial tallies say nearly two-thirds voted in favor of the draft constitution, but turnout was so low that oppon... Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1785772-ap-interview-egypt-liberal-objects-to-charter.html 2012-12-24T21:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1781224-egyptian-islamists-opponents-clash-ahead-vote.html ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) — Violence erupted between Egypt's divided camps on Friday, the eve of the final round of a referendum on a constitution that has polarized the nation, as Islamists and their opponents pelted each other with stones while police fired tear gas in the streets of the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. The contentious referendum, which w... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1781224-egyptian-islamists-opponents-clash-ahead-vote.html 2012-12-21T21:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1769476-mistrust-runs-deep-egypt-referendum.html CAIRO (AP) — Nevine Mustafa finally had enough after 10 hours of waiting to cast her "no" vote in Egypt's referendum on a highly disputed draft constitution. She and the other women in line were convinced the judge running the polling station was deliberately stalling to drive away voters opposed to the document. So the 39-year-old housewife and dozens of... Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1769476-mistrust-runs-deep-egypt-referendum.html 2012-12-16T21:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1768076-egyptians-take-quarrel-charter-to-polls.html CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians took their quarrel over a draft constitution to polling stations Saturday after weeks of violent turmoil between the newly empowered Islamists and the mostly liberal opposition over the future identity of the nation. Regardless of the outcome, the heated arguments among voters standing in line signaled that the referendum over the c... Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1768076-egyptians-take-quarrel-charter-to-polls.html 2012-12-15T20:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1763722-egypt-vote-fateful-choice-nation.html CAIRO (AP) — Two days before a constitutional referendum it considered boycotting, Egypt's secular opposition finally launched its "no" campaign Thursday with newspaper and TV ads detailing the argument against the charter drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi. The Morsi camp has a simpler message: A "Yes" to the constitution is a yes... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1763722-egypt-vote-fateful-choice-nation.html 2012-12-13T21:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1757742-egypt-judges-will-boycott-referendum.html CAIRO (AP) — Most Egyptian judges rejected any role Tuesday in overseeing the country's constitutional referendum, a move likely to cast further doubt on the legitimacy of the disputed charter. The nation's worst crisis since Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly two years ago also forced the government to put off a crucial deal with the International Monetary Fu... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1757742-egypt-judges-will-boycott-referendum.html 2012-12-11T22:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1750536-egypt-delays-early-voting-constitution.html CAIRO (AP) — Egypt postponed early voting on a contentious draft constitution, and aides to President Mohammed Morsi floated the possibility of canceling the whole referendum in the first signs Friday that the Islamic leader is finally yielding to days of protests and deadly street clashes. Tens of thousands marched on the presidential palace after pushin... Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1750536-egypt-delays-early-voting-constitution.html 2012-12-07T22:37:00Z