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Morsi Meets Rep of Coptic Community
In this photo released by Middle East News Agency, the Egyptian official news agency, President-elect Mohammed Morsi, left, meets with a representative from the Coptic community, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. The military has pledged to turn power over to a civilian government once a new president is…
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Myanmar asks its people to build healthy community
YANGON, June 26 (Xinhua) — A Myanmar anti-drug official Tuesday called on the country’s people to make continuous efforts to build up a healthy community free of drug abuse. Lieutenant-General Ko Ko, chairman of Myanmar’s Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control and Home Minister, made the call in his message…
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Mohammed Morsi Elected As New Egyptian President
In this image taken from Egypt State TV, newly-elect President Mohammed Morsi delivers a speech in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, June 24, 2012. Morsi has called for unity and said he carries “a message of peace” to the world. In his first televised speech on state TV, Morsi pledged Sunday to…
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Tension Hikes In Egypt With Failure To Announce Election Result
An Egyptian street vendor carries a poster with a picture depicting presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq with Arabic that reads “Ahmed Shafiq says: I will remove the verses of Quran from the curriculum” during a Muslim Brotherhood’s anti-ruling military council demonstration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Authorities…
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Egypt Thrown Into Chaos After Presidential Election
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood supporters attend prayers during an anti ruling military council demonstration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Tuesday, June 19, 2012. A campaign spokesman for Hosni Mubarak’s ex-prime minister said Tuesday that Ahmed Shafiq has won Egypt’s presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood’s claims that its candidate was the…
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Egypt’s Ruling Military Will Hand Over Power
Members of the ruling military council, Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Assar, left, listens as Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Shahin, speaks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, June 18, 2012. Al-Assar, a senior member of the ruling council, said the generals would transfer power in a “grand ceremony.” He did not…
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Muslim Brotherhood Declares Victory
This combination of two photos shows Egyptian presidential candidates, from left, Ahmed Shafiq, and Mohammed Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood has declared that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt’s presidential election, early Monday, June 18, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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[News in Pictures] Egypt Presidential Runoff
Egyptians gather to protest ongoing military rule in Cairo, Egypt on Friday, June 15, 2012. On the right, a man holds a defaced campaign poster of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik, a man widely believed to be an extension of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. On Thursday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved the…
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Egypt Presidential Election 1 Day Ahead
An Egyptian man holds up his shoe, a sign of insult, at a poster of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik during a protest in Cairo, Egypt on Friday, June 15, 2012. Shafik is broadly perceived as an extension of the regime of Hosni Mubarak. On Thursday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved…
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Egyptians Want To Clean Remnants Of Mubarak
Egyptian protesters chant slogans against the country’s military ruling council and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, as one holds a poster with merged photos of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and Ahmed Shafiq, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament…
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