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By By BEN HUBBARD and MAYY EL SHEIKH, on June 19th, 2013 The number of blasphemy cases, once rare in Egypt, has increased sharply as Islamists assert their new power in public life.
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “At around 1420 hrs today (1320 GMT) an EgyptAir aircraft flying from Cairo to New York was diverted to Prestwick Airport after a suspicious note was discovered on the aircraft,” said a statement from Police Scotland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Islamist president cuts relations with Syria, orders Damascus Embassy in Cairo shut. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The British government has warned airlines around the world not to allow Edward Snowden onto flights to Britain, marking the first official measure to target him even though he has yet to be charged with any crime and no warrant has been issued for his arrest. If other countries follow Britain’s example and block his entry, Snowden will have few options for seeking refuge if he is not allowed to stay in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Rep. Jane Harman, on June 14th, 2013 The NGO convictions should sound an alarm.
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By , on June 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> For a journalist, there is nothing more satisfying than a scoop that sets the news agenda for days on end and simultaneously leaves the opposition racing to catch up. On Monday morning, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, sent out a herogram to all his staff praising them for breaking the story of Edward Snowden. The 29-year-old is a former technical assistant for the CIA and, for the last four years, had been working at the National Security Agency. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By jbecker, on June 10th, 2013 
Young and vulnerable victims of crime are to be allowed to pre-record their evidence to avoid the trauma of appearing in court, ministers say.
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Villagers in Bolivia’s southern highlands buried a man alive in the grave of the woman he is suspected of having raped and murdered, an official said on Thursday. Police had identified 17-year-old Santos Ramos as the possible culprit in the attack on 35-year-old Leandra Arias Janco Sunday in a Quechua community near the municipality of Colquechaca, said Jose Luis Barrios, the chief prosecutor in Potosi province where the community is located. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Eight men were arrested after allegedly attacking a nephew of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum at the headquarters of the family’s Chinachem Group business in Tsuen Wan on Friday morning. The victim was a son of Nina Wang’s younger brother Dr Kung Yan-sum, Hong Kong broadcaster Cable TV reported. He received unspecified injuries in the attack in a basement parking space at Nina Tower, the headquarters of the Chinachem Group, it reported. Broken glasses and an umbrella were found at the scene, the report said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government on Friday approved legislation to set up a national security council, moving to strengthen the premier’s grip on foreign policy in the face of North Korean missile threats and a territorial dispute with China. The hawkish Abe has pursued the formation of Japan’s version of the White House’s National Security Council to centralise information gathering and speed up decision-making, a move welcomed by US security experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong action film star Jackie Chan on Thursday became the first person to twice leave the imprints of his hands and feet in cement at Hollywood’s famed Chinese Theatre. Chan, who has starred in some 150 films in a career spanning more than 40 years, first left imprints in the forecourt of the theatre in 1997, adding to the collection that features screen legends from Clark Gable to Marilyn Monroe. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Josh Rogin, on June 6th, 2013 Kerry quietly approved arms shipments to Egypt—despite Cairo’s human rights violations. By Josh Rogin.
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By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, on June 4th, 2013 A court convicted 43 nonprofit workers, including at least 16 Americans, of illegally using foreign funds to foment unrest in the country, sentencing them to up to five years in jail.
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By Vivian Salama, on June 4th, 2013 Egypt convicted 43 American NGO workers, including Sam LaHood, son of the U.S. Transportation secretary. Vivian Salama speaks with one of the Americans sentenced in absentia to jail time.
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By , on June 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> More than 60 countries on Monday signed a landmark conventional arms trade treaty, but the United States held back from joining the first wave of signatories while Russia and China are expected to stay out of the accord. The UN-brokered treaty is the first covering weapons of any kind for more than a decade and aims to bring transparency and protection of human rights into the often dubious US$85 billion-a-year global trade. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By REUTERS, on June 2nd, 2013 Sunday’s ruling said the upper house, or Shura Council, would be dissolved once a parliament convenes.
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By , on June 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian court says Islamist-dominated legislature, constitutional panel illegally elected. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNE BARNARD and HWAIDA SAAD, on June 2nd, 2013 Sheik Yusef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian based in Qatar, has been called an extremist by Syrian authorities but has been influential in the uprising.
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By , on May 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING — “Ding Jinhao was here.” It was a banal declaration scratched by a teenager into an artifact at a 3,500-year-old Egyptian temple that has launched a round of soul-searching about the bad behavior of Chinese tourists. The Chinese-language graffiti was discovered at Luxor this month by a Chinese tourist who posted a photograph on a microblog in which he deplored the behavior of his countrymen abroad. “I’m so embarrassed that I want to hide myself,” the microblogger wrote last week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Boy’s graffiti in Egypt leaves Chinese cringing
By , on May 28th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OSAKA, Japan (AP) — More than 70 years ago, at age 14, Kim Bok-dong was ordered to work by Korea’s Japanese occupiers. She was told she was going to a military uniform factory, but ended up at a Japanese military-run brothel in southern China. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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British warplanes scrambled to divert US-bound flight after fire threat
<!– google_ad_section_start –> “At around 1420 hrs today (1320 GMT) an EgyptAir aircraft flying from Cairo to New York was diverted to Prestwick Airport after a suspicious note was discovered on the aircraft,” said a statement from Police Scotland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading British warplanes scrambled to divert US-bound flight after fire threat
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