“No president since the modern state of Israel [was formed] has failed to stand by our ally Israel — only President Obama. …The president spurned the president of Egypt when he took his first foreign trip to Cairo… In May he even said that Israel should retreat to its indefensible 1967 borders… Obama’s State Department now designates Jerusalem as an international city and in a bizarre move our State Department will not even acknowledge that Jerusalem belongs to Israel.” Read full article > >

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Michele Bachmann at CPAC: History through a partisan lens

CAIRO — Julie Hughes, a veteran pro-democracy worker, was crushed when she missed out on Egypt’s revolt last year . In a Facebook posting at the time, she said, “It’s like having your next door neighbor throw an incredibly joyous party and you don’t get an invitation.” Read full article > >

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Egypt’s plan to charge 19 Americans highlights tense relationship with activists

CAIRO — The Egyptian government intends to prosecute at least 40 people, including some American citizens, as part of an investigation into non-government organizations that receive foreign funding, state media reported Sunday. Read full article > >

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Egypt to prosecute Americans in NGO probe

CAIRO — Egypt is on the brink of political and economic collapse and the West has an obligation to sustain the country with financial aid and diplomatic support, a senior Muslim Brotherhood official has warned. Read full article > >

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Muslim Brotherhood official says West is neglecting Egypt

CAIRO — Two female American tourists were released Friday night, hours after masked gunmen kidnapped them on the road that leads to St. Catherine’s Monastery, a historic landmark in the Sinai Peninsula, a military official said. Read full article > >

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Abducted U.S. female tourists released in Egypt

Egyptian protesters clash with security forces for a second day in Cairo, as anger over the deaths of dozens of football fans threatens political unrest.

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Cairo clashes over football anger

Demonstrators angered by the deaths of 74 people after a football match clash with police outside the Egyptian interior ministry in Cairo.

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Tear gas fired in Cairo clashes

CAIRO — Egypt’s parliament on Thursday vowed to investigate the previous night’s melee after a soccer game in Port Said city that left at least 74 people dead. Many Egyptians blamed the security forces for not doing enough to protect dueling crowds of fans, and some suggested that internal and foreign agents may have instigated the bloodshed as party of a scheme to sow mayhem across the country. Read full article > >

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Egypt’s parliament vows to investigate melee that left at least 74 dead

CAIRO — At least 73 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured Wednesday night in one of the deadliest incidents in the country in recent history, according to the Egyptian Health Ministry. Clashes broke out as fans streamed onto the field at a stadium at Port Said at the conclusion of a game between regional teams, the home town Al-Masry and Cairo’s Al-Ahly, according to news reports and witnesses. Read full article > >

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At least 73 dead after Egypt soccer match

CAIRO — A little over a year ago, on the eve of the revolution that ousted Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Hisham Kassem was poised to launch the Arab world’s first independently owned multimedia news company. But the revolution failed to redeem its promise of full democracy, press freedoms deteriorated, the economy tanked, and Kassem’s shareholders abandoned him. Read full article > >

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New hope for Egypt’s pioneering journalist

CAIRO — A top U.S. official’s son who is working for a pro-democracy group in Egypt has been barred from leaving the country, part of an escalating crackdown on such groups by Egypt’s military government that has further outraged the United States. Read full article > >

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Son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood barred from leaving Egypt

Egypt seats its new Parliament | Romney and Gingrich trade jabs before Monday’s debate | China celebrates the Year of the Dragon.

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TIMESCAST: TimesCast | January 23, 2012

CAIRO — The political wing of Egypt’s most historic Islamist party won by far the largest number of seats in the first post-revolutionary parliament, final results confirmed Saturday, and is now poised to play a dominant role in the drafting of a new constitution. Read full article > >

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Final results confirms Islamists winners in Egypt’s elections

CAIRO — Liberals and Islamists in Egypt announced a temporary agreement Monday on a power-sharing plan that would install a Muslim Brotherhood leader as speaker of the country’s newly elected parliament. Read full article > >

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Egypt’s next parliament will be led by Islamist

CAIRO — Mohamed ElBaradei, a revolutionary favorite to lead post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt, backed out of his bid for the presidency Saturday, saying that the old regime was essentially still in place in the form of the ruling military council and that it was steering the country off the path to democracy. Read full article > >

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Mohamed ElBaradei pulls out of presidential race in Egypt