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Electronic monitoring of elections launched

The Arab Council and New World Organizations for human Rights launched an electronic network to monitor elections in Egypt .

IAF in Jordan to solve disputes

Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood offshoot the Islamic Action Front (IAF) deferred a Shura Council meeting scheduled for Saturday, May 14.

El-Baradei ‘Dances with Wolves’

Egypt is riding the wave of ElBaradei euphoria. In the run-up to the 2009-10 election marathon, the country simmers with protests.

Emergency law means more emergency for Egyptians

President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs urged Egypt to complete its anti-terrorism legislation and repeal the emergency law which has been extended once again.

Barack Obama serves notice on Egypt: I meant what I said about human rights

Hosni Mubarak is unlikely to have been too badly discomfited by Barack Obama's expression of mild disappointment at the renewal of Egypt's controversial emergency law.

Emergency measures a ‘catastrophe’ for Egypt

Opposition leaders, rights groups and foreign governments have condemned the extension of Egypt’s three-decade state of emergency by a further two years.

Beyond the burqa

IN MUSLIM countries, a conservative head-covering does not always mean being conservative in other ways.

Their view: Will administration continue to allow autocracy in Egypt

While the Obama administration was occupied with hosting a difficult ally - Afghan President Hamid Karzai - on Tuesday, another problematic friend took a big step toward perpetuating his corrupt

MB MP: Emergency Law, instrument of tyranny and oppression

Dr. Mohamed Saad Al Katatni, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc has criticised the extension of the emergency law

IOA begins a campaign of demolition in OJ, plans 12,000 housing units

Israeli public security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has said that a campaign of demolition against "illegal" Palestinian homes in eastern Jerusalem would start soon.