TEHRAN: Iranians packed polling stations from boutique-lined streets to conservative bastions Friday with a choice that s left the country divided and on edge: keeping hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power or electing a reformist who (...)
CAIRO: An American couple, Iris Botros and Louis Andros, thought they were finally reaching their dream of having a child when they came to Botros' homeland, Egypt, to adopt twin orphans. Instead they found themselves in a cage in a courtroom, on (...)
ZAGAZIG: Dressed in karate uniforms and track suits, the young Egyptian women break off in pairs and begin sparring, with one kicking and punching while the other tries to block the attacks.
The nearly two dozen women and girls in a small (...)
SULTAN ZAWYIT: In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohamed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters.
A year ago, she had few qualms about female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting a girl's clitoris (...)
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda s American spokesman urged fighters to meet President Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East, according to a new video posted on the Internet Sunday.
US-born Adam Gadahn also tore up his US passport as part of a symbolic (...)
CAIRO: Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim (...)
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda has invited journalists to send questions to its No. 2 figure, Ayman Al-Zawahri, in the first such offer by the increasingly media-savvy terror network to interview one of its leaders since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The (...)
CAIRO: US-based Bronco Drilling Co. has signed an agreement to invest in a company run by a Libyan family to provide drilling services in the oil-rich former pariah country.
The move is another sign that Libya is emerging from its international (...)
LUXOR: Egypt put King Tut's mummy on public display for the first time Sunday - 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were discovered in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings.
Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass (...)
ALEXANDRIA: Millions of Egyptians could be forced permanently from their homes, the country s ability to feed itself devastated.
That s what likely awaits this already impoverished and overpopulated nation by the end of the century, if (...)
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CAIRO: In a country where perhaps the most popular national past-time is puffing on a water pipe or chain smoking while drinking tea, new laws designed to curb smoking are receiving a skeptical response.
Egypt s 76 million (...)
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WESTERN DESERT: In 111 days, three ultra-endurance athletes - an American, a Canadian and a Taiwanese - did something most people could only describe as insane: Running the equivalent of two marathons a day to become the first (...)
Backers are shadowy but message is clear in graphic TV ad against terrorism
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CAIRO: A TV commercial aimed at thwarting terrorism has hit Middle Eastern TV networks using high-tech effects to show the anatomy of a suicide (...)