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Oct 23, 2013

Top News: Eleven Nations Meeting in London Endorse Peace Talks

By MENASource

The United States and ten Arab and European nations expressed support on Tuesday for the convening of a peace conference next month in Geneva to begin negotiations on a political settlement to end the civil war in Syria.

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Oct 23, 2013

Top News: Cabinet Says Emergency Law to End Mid-November

By EgyptSource

Cabinet spokesperson Sherif Shawqi has claimed Egypt’s emergency law will not continue past mid-November. In remarks on Tuesday, Shawqi said the Cabinet does not intend to extend the emergency law in the wake of the Warraq church attack.

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Oct 23, 2013

Syria: The London 11 on Geneva

By Frederic C. Hof

The London 11 core group of the Friends of the Syrian People on October 22 took aim at giving a very skeptical opposition Syrian National Coalition a basis for attending a Geneva peace conference (Geneva 2) in late November.

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Oct 23, 2013

The Muslim Brotherhood: A New Ban

By Yussef Auf

With the issuing of the September 23 ruling by the Cairo Court for Urgent Affairs, banning the Muslim Brotherhood group’s activities and confiscating its funds, the group has entered a new phase. On October 2, the Egyptian cabinet issued a decision forming a committee to handle and execute the ruling, and to ascertain the number […]

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Oct 22, 2013

Top News: Egyptian Christians fear Chaos after Wedding Bloodshed

By EgyptSource

An autopsy report has revealed the way the victims of the Warraq church attack on Sunday were killed, the state-run Al-Ahram reported on Tuesday. The initial forensic report on the victims of showed that the assailants used machine guns, and the victims were shot in the back.

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Oct 22, 2013

Top News: US Missile Attacks Killed Civilians in Yemen, Says Rights Group

By MENASource

US missile strikes, including armed drone attacks, have killed dozens of civilians in Yemen as the United States tries to crack down on al-Qaeda in the country, a prominent human rights organization said on Tuesday.

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Oct 22, 2013

The Week in Egypt – October 22, 2013

By Amira Mikhail

Catch up on the latest out of Egypt every week, with analysis, news updates, photos, videos, and more.

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Oct 21, 2013

Syria: Is it Too Late To Do Anything?

By Frederic C. Hof

Those who have long counseled against the United States taking control of the arming of Syrian opposition forces have recently updated their argument: it is now simply too late for Washington to do anything useful, even if it wanted to.

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Oct 21, 2013

Top News: Al-Azhar University Students Clash with Security Forces

By EgyptSource

A group of al-Azhar students clashed with security forces on Sunday after a staged protest denouncing the death and arrest of several al-Azhar students turned violent. Al-Azhar students’ protests began on Saturday to voice their rejection of the “military coup” which led to the unseating of former President Mohamed Morsi. Students rallied outside the administrative […]

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Oct 21, 2013

Top News: Gunmen Kill Four Near Church in Cairo Suburb

By MENASource

Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on Egyptian wedding guests outside al-Waraq’s Keniset Al-‘Adra (Church of the Virgin Mary) located in the Waraq suburb in the Giza governorate on Sunday night. This counts as the first attack on a church in Cairo since the army’s ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, which instigated attacks on Coptic Christian properties […]