Clinton says rights a `core pillar' of US policy

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described democracy and human rights as "a core pillar of American foreign policy" and said she and President Barack Obama would bring them up again in Egypt next week.

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Padilla's Egyptian connection facing prison or trial

Mohamed Hesham Youssef figures he'll rot in an Egyptian desert prison, a dual citizen detained without charge, unless he agrees to stand trial in the United States on charges of supporting al-Qaida.

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Judge Bars Deportation of Egyptian

An Egyptian who fears he will be tortured for his Christian beliefs cannot be deported without full court review just to further U.S. diplomatic goals, a federal judge has determined.

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HEART AND SOUL By Magdi Abdelhadi Arab Affairs Analyst, BBC World Service Amr Khaled's unique brand of Muslim preaching has made him one of the most popular preachers in the world.

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The FBI is investigating the arrest in Pakistan of five reported US men on suspicion of extremist links. The men were arrested in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in eastern Punjab province, Pakistan's US embassy told the BBC.

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Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe in the niqab or burqa. But on the Saudi religious channel Awtan TV it has now become the norm.

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The large numbers of migrant workers in Dubai from Asia and the Middle East are likely to bear the brunt of the emirate's severe credit problems. For them Dubai had offered an escape from poverty in their home countries.

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Former UN nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei has said he might run for Egypt's presidency, if the elections are democratic. His comments were met with heavy criticism in the pro-government press, which backs President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's leader for the past 28 years.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has scheduled a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo in two days as she tries to temper Arab criticism of her praise for Israel's offer to restrict West Bank settlements.

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Around 1,500 people gathered in Dresden on Saturday to mourn the death of a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a courtroom by a man who had called her a terrorist for wearing a headscarf.

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A 31-year-old pregnant Egyptian woman Marwa Sherbini has been killed in a hate crime outside a courtroom in Dresden, Germany.

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Egypt mourns 'headscarf martyr'

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An al Qaeda suspect accused in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa will become the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to go on trial in a civilian U.S. court, the Justice Department said on Thursday. More Articles

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ONE THING is certain, Islam is not a religion by anything Americans believe one to be — not even close. In fact, Islam is the antithesis of what we deem to be religious.

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Mohammad Zidan - Egyptian Rising Star

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LOST Mythology: Egyptian, Atlantian, Mixed Bag

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LiveLeak.com - Egyptian Cleric Justifies The Holocaust, Airs Footage And "Hopes It Will Happen Again But, Allah Willing, At The Hand Of Muslims".

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A federal jury on Monday convicted five men of conspiracy to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder. More Articles

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A Turkish shoe firm says it has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with a surge in orders after an Iraqi threw shoes at US President Bush. More Articles

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The coffin contains a woman who was in her 60s when she died 2,500 years ago in ancient Egypt.

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Just think, we could've been exploring the galaxy by now.

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Why the Hebrew Bible and not the Egyptian Book of the Dead?

What bugs me the most is the moral claim of Christians and other Hebrew Bible based religions as if the Ten Commandments were god given to them. The Ten Commandments (Exodus:20:1-26) are taken from the Declarations to Rekhti-merti-f-ent-Ma'at and the 42 Negative Affirmations as  …

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An Irishwoman who hired a hitman on the internet was sentenced to six years in jail yesterday for attempting to murder her wealthy ex-partner and his two sons, even though her former lover forgave her in court and pleaded for her freedom.

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It should have been a luxury break in the Caribbean sun. Having forked out £3,500 on a three-week holiday in St Lucia, retired policeman Anthony Griffin and his wife Pauline were naturally excited as their plane touched down.

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Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail

(CNN) -- James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.

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Egyptian nurses tend to newborn septuplets at the el-Shatbi hospital in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008.

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Sexual harassment - Egypt's "cancer" of society

I've been following recent reports on sexual harassment against women back home in Cairo, and becoming increasingly upset about the state of affairs there.

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