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CBS Reporter Recovering From Sexual Assault in Egypt
![<span style="font-size: medium;">CBS news reporter Lara Logan suffered a brutal physical and sexual assault Friday evening in Cairo while covering the Egyptian unrest. She is now recovering in New York.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-02/269308640-15133357.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">CBS news reporter Lara Logan suffered a brutal physical and sexual assault Friday evening in Cairo while covering the Egyptian unrest. She is now recovering in New York.</span>")
CBS news reporter Lara Logan suffered a brutal physical and sexual assault Friday evening in Cairo while covering the Egyptian unrest. She is now recovering in New York.
The picture of Logan included here was taken in Tahrir Square moments before the...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Lara Logan, Hosni Mubarak, Sexual Assault
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Egypt: 10 men suspected for the killing of 3 women in 'honor' crime
Associated PressLUXOR, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian security official says 10 male relatives have killed a mother and her two daughters on suspicion of moral offenses — so-called "honor killings." The official said Friday the men suspected the three women of...Tags: Adultery, Human Interest
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Egypt to issue smart cards to fuel stations next month
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt will begin using smart cards in the next few weeks to distribute gasoline and diesel, Oil Minister Sherif Haddara said on Thursday, in a step towards meeting IMF terms for a loan. The first smart cards will go to fuel stations and...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Passenger Cars
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Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai
ReutersCAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. The abduction underlined the...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Criminals, Hosni Mubarak, Defense, Religious Conflicts
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Egypt court sentences four men to hang for killing priest
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced four men on Wednesday to death by hanging for the 2011 killing of a Coptic Christian priest in his apartment in the southern city of Assiut, state news agency MENA reported. The four were found guilty of...Tags: Theft, Punishment
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ANALYSIS-Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
Reuters* Moderate Islamist-led government cracks down on Salafists * Rupture raises risk of fuelling armed radicals in N.Africa * Main Salafist group rejects state, shuns elections * Secular Tunisians fear for freedom, stability By Tarek Amara TUNIS, May 23...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Feminism, Labor Legislation
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Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
ReutersTUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities. The...Tags: Tunisia, Armed Conflicts, Civil Rights, Feminism, Labor Legislation
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Swiss seek to facilitate restitution of dictator loot
Reuters* Draft law first of its kind - Swiss Foreign Ministry * Swiss blocked $1 billion of Arab Spring loot ZURICH, May 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland proposed on Wednesday a new law to make it easier to freeze assets stolen and salted away by foreign leaders and...Tags: Tunisia, Bashar Assad, Nigeria, Arab Spring, Theft
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Seven Egyptian soldiers freed by captors in Sinai
CAIRO — Seven Egyptian soldiers who had been abducted in the Sinai last week were set free by their captors early Wednesday amid conflicting reports as to how their release was secured. Many local news websites reported that tribe leaders in the...
Tags: Armed Forces, Mohamed Morsi, Kidnapping, Cairo (Egypt)
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Egyptian factories, hit by subsidy cuts, highlight Cairo's fiscal dilemma
Reuters* Brick, cement makers hit first by govt drive to cut energy subsidies * Cairo needs to cut spending but austerity risks more social unrest * Analysts urge Cairo to move quickly to secure IMF loan By Asma Alsharif AL-SAFF, Egypt, May 22 (Reuters) -...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Consumer Confidence, Petroleum Industry, Hosni Mubarak, Budgets and Budgeting
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FEATURE-Turkey presents Prophet's sayings for the 21st Century
ReutersBy Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) - Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad's sayings that might scrap those it...Tags: Qur'an, Arts and Culture, Religious Texts, Book, Turkey
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Yale Gets Egyptomania
Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharoahs Ends Jan. 4, 2014, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., New Haven, (203) 432-5050, peabody.yale.edu. Colleen Manassa, curator of Echoes of Egypt, gives a tour of the exhibition on...
Tags: Architecture, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Grateful Dead (music group), Peabody Museum of Natural History
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