Fayza Abul Naga, an Egyptian cabinet minister, is pressing the indictment of 16 Americans in a case that is shaking the American-Egyptian alliance.

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CAIRO — The architect of Egypt’s crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy organizations is a holdover from the cabinet of former president Hosni Mubarak who has tried for years to stymie the groups’ activities. Read full article > >

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“I elevated the SBA [Small Business Administration] administrator to a Cabinet level position so that they are talking directly to me, so that there is no one in between me and the SBA when they are advocating on behalf of small business. …And [even after a reorganization] I’ll still have an SBA administrator in my Cabinet who’s advocating directly for small businesses.” Read full article > >

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President Obama’s small business bobble

Cabinet Minister Iain Duncan Smith tells the BBC that he trusts the PM to stop eurozone countries using EU-wide institutions without the UK.

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PM ‘not backing down’ on EU pact

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shook up his cabinet on Friday in a bid to appease opposition parties and build support for his contentious tax hike proposal. In what Japan’s domestic media described as a “minor” reshuffle, Noda replaced five of his 17 ministers, including two who had recently come under criticism for their verbal slip-ups. But the move comes at a critical time for Noda, who in the coming months will either win wider backing for his fiscal policy or squander what’s left of his popularity. Read full article > >

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The cabinet will meet later at the main site of the London Olympics, to mark 200 days until the Games begin.

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Olympic park meeting for cabinet

A leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party said it had decided to support keeping the military-appointed cabinet and prime minister in place for six months.

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Muslim Brotherhood Backs Egyptian Military’s Transition Date

The cabinet is to discuss proposals to give the Scottish government the legal power to hold a binding referendum on independence.

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BUENOS AIRES — Some make the mistake of calling Juan Carlos Rennis’s school an academy, a word he associates with elitist institutions, blue blazers and snooty attitudes. “We’re a technical school,” Rennis, rector for 17 years, said with conviction. “We take people and teach them to do a job.” Rennis, a wiry man with a booming voice, wasn’t talking about plumbing or cabinet-making. But the job his 600 students are training for is one he considers of equal practical value — and far greater emotional significance — to the country: reporting the latest scores, trades, contract talks, back-office negotiations and other minutiae of the most Argentine of passions, sports. foreroj@washpost.com Read full article > >

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Argentine sports obsession sprouts sportswriter schools

Former Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe argued after the Toxteth riots that regenerating Liverpool would be like making “water flow uphill”, cabinet papers reveal.

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CAIRO — Egypt’s ruling military council on Monday glossed over the brute force used against protesters in clashes since Friday, publicly describing the demonstrators as paid thugs and vandals. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 400 wounded since the start of the clashes , which began when soldiers tried to break up a sit-in outside the cabinet building that was held to protest the military council. Read full article > >

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Freedom of information laws should be amended so that minutes of Cabinet meetings are kept private, the Cabinet Secretary has said.

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A Washington Post reporter goes jogging with his wife and comes across a lost iPod along the trail. There is no one nearby and no obvious way to post a notice about the orphaned electronic. Curiosity strikes — what songs are on the owner’s playlist? Listening to someone else’s music feels like poking through the medicine cabinet — invasive and yet oddly intriguing for a wandering mind: What kind of person likes Cake and Jackson 5? Read full article > >

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A Washington Post reporter goes jogging with his wife and comes across a lost iPod along the trail. There is no one nearby and no obvious way to post a notice about the orphaned electronic. Curiosity strikes — what songs are on the owner’s playlist? Listening to someone else’s music feels like poking through the medicine cabinet — invasive and yet oddly intriguing for a wandering mind: What kind of person likes Cake and Jackson 5? Read full article > >

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Lost iPod: Can you identify the owner solely by the playlist?

Negotiations over how to extend a payroll tax holiday for 160 million Americans and avoid a government shutdown this weekend ground to a halt Wednesday after a standoff in the Senate over how to proceed. Amid the gridlock, Cabinet secretaries for the first time formally alerted affected federal workers Wednesday to the possibility of a shutdown — indicating in an ­e-mail that they would determine later which staffers are “essential” to maintain operations in the event of a funding disruption. Read full article > >

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Payroll tax cut and spending bill stall in Senate, raising threat of shutdown