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Fast Forward Islamists Reject El Baradei as Interim Egypt Leader
Liberal politician Mohamed ElBaradei was chosen as Egypt’s interim Prime Minister on Saturday as the transitional administration fought to restore calm after at least 35 people were killed in Islamist protests that swept the country. ElBaradei, a 71-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.N. nuclear agency chief, had been favourite to head the temporary…
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Fast Forward Egypt Counts Its Dead After Day of Violent Protest
Egypt counted its dead on Saturday after Islamists enraged by the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi took to the streets in an explosion of violence against what they denounced as a military coup. At least 30 people died and more than 1,000 were wounded after Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement called “Friday of Rejection” protests across…
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News Brazilian Jews Take to Streets To Join Massive Push for Change
When Alan Rochlin joined hundreds of thousands of Israelis who took to the streets in 2011 to protest skyrocketing living costs, he never imagined he would be doing the same in his native Brazil just two years later. But as Brazilians made international headlines in late June with massive anti-government protests, Rochlin, a 21-year-old marketing…
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Fast Forward 3 Dead as Egypt Army Opens Fire on Islamists
Security forces shot dead at least three supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Friday as a crowd of hundreds tried to march towards the military barracks in Cairo where he is being held by the military that overthrew him. Thousands of Mursi supporters demonstrated in cities across the country on what his Muslim…
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Fast Forward D-Day for Mohamed Morsi as Egypt Army Deadline Looms
Egypt’s army commander and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi each pledged to die for his cause as a deadline neared on Wednesday that will trigger a military takeover backed by protesters. Military chiefs, vowing to restore order in a country racked by demonstrations over Mursi’s Islamist policies, issued a call to battle in a statement headlined…
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Fast Forward Turkish Official Blames Jews for Stoking Street Protests
A Turkish deputy prime minister linked the “Jewish diaspora” to recent anti-government unrest and the country’s Jewish community expressed fears on Tuesday the comments could make them targets of popular anger. Turkey was rocked by violent protests last month when a small effort to save Gezi Park in central Istanbul from redevelopment mushroomed into a…
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Fast Forward Muslim Brotherhood Head Quarters Under Attack During Mass Protests
Anti-government protesters set the national headquarters of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo ablaze on Sunday, throwing petrol bombs and exchanging gunfire with guards. The attack came amid protests across Egypt calling for President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood to resign, in which hundreds of thousands demonstrated on the first anniversary of his inauguration. Brotherhood…
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Fast Forward 200K Egyptians Flood Tahrir Square Demanding Morsi Quit
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi’s inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign. Waving national flags and chanting “Get out!”, a crowd of more than 200,000 had massed by sunset on Cairo’s central Tahrir Square in the biggest demonstration since the 2011…
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