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Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast, will retire in 2014 after one more year on ABC News and her talk show, “The View.”
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Sucking tobacco smoke through a water pipe shared with three fellow farmers during a midday tea break, Osama Abdel-Ghani surveys the ripening wheat that Egypt is counting on to help feed its people.
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Egypt requested a $2 billion loan from Russia during a meeting between President Mohamed Mursi and his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Egyptian Industry and Trade Minister Hatem Saleh said.
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Egypt’s military rulers ordered the release of Abboud and Tarek El-Zomor, who were imprisoned for their role in the assassination of former President Anwar Sadat , the semi-official Al Ahram newspaper said today.
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Cairo University echoed with cheers in June 2009 when President Barack Obama addressed his audience with the Muslim greeting, assalamu aleikum, peace be upon you.
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Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s declaration of a state of emergency in three restive provinces had all the earmarks of an autocrat’s command, right down to the 9 p.m. curfew.
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Calling the comedian Bassem Youssef “the Egyptian Jon Stewart” has misled people as to why he is important -- and why he’s being attacked by his government.
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Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast, plans to retire in May 2014, said a person with knowledge of the situation.
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From his 33rd-floor penthouse apartment with sweeping views of the Nile River, Naguib Sawiris, Egypt’s best-known billionaire and most prominent Christian, can hear the chants of Friday prayers in the distance. As he sits down to a breakfast of taameya and ful, dishes made from fava beans, demonstrators are gathering in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a planned protest, this time aimed at stopping military trials of thousands of civilians arrested during the revolution that brought down the regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
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For 16 days earlier this month, not a single shipping container moved into or out of Egypt’s principal port for Asian trade.
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