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CAIRO/BERLIN (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in power for almost three decades, underwent successful surgery in Germany on Saturday after handing power temporarily to his prime minister, Egyptian media said.
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Egypt president’s gallbladder surgery successful
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 06-03-2010
CAIRO/BERLIN (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in power for almost three decades, has handed power temporarily to his prime minister while he undergoes gallbladder surgery on Saturday in Germany, state television said.
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Egypt president undergoes gallbladder surgery
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in power for almost three decades, has handed power temporarily to his prime minister while he undergoes gallbladder surgery in Germany, state television said on Saturday.
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Egypt president to undergo gallbladder surgery – TV
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 20-02-2010
CAIRO (Reuters) – Former U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei arrived at Cairo airport on Friday to an exuberant welcome from supporters who hope he will stir up Egyptian politics by running for president in 2011.
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ElBaradei lands in Egypt, backers want presidency bid
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday ordered that an American couple and six Egyptians, all Christians, be tried on charges of forgery and illegal adoption, prosecution documents showed.
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Egypt to try U.S. couple, Egyptians over adoption
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have accused detained senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s biggest opposition group, of trying to set up training camps for staging attacks, the group’s lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Egypt says Brotherhood members planned attacks – lawyer
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CAIRO (Reuters) – A number of female students wore surgical masks at Cairo University to circumvent a government ban on the full face veil in exams, an independent Egyptian newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Egypt’s veiled students dodge niqab ban with masks
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Muslims and Christians set fire to each others’ homes and shops near the southern Egyptian town of Nagaa Hamady on Saturday, three days after a gunman killed six Coptic Christians in a drive-by shooting, security sources said.
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Muslims, Christians set homes ablaze in Egypt
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Coptic Christian protestors clashed with police in the southern Egyptian town of Nagaa Hamady on Thursday after six Christians and a Muslim police officer were killed in a shooting in front of a church, witnesses said.
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Copts protest in south Egypt after fatal shootings
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ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces clashed on Wednesday with members of a convoy led by left-wing British politician George Galloway trying to take relief supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
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Egypt police clash with Gaza relief convoy members