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Presidential Campaign Highly Polarizes in Egypt
In this Monday, June 11, 2012 file photo, giant billboards showing Egyptian presidential candidates Ahmed Shafiq, top, and Mohammed Morsi, bottom, are seen along a highway in Cairo, Egypt. Arabic sign, top, reads, “Ahmed Shafiq, president for Egypt, actions and not words.” Arabic sign, bottom, partially shown, reads, “our strength…
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Turkey Holds 1st Ecology Festival ‘ECOFEST’
Visitors walk past an artwork made of recycling paper during Turkey’s first international ecology festival, ECOFEST, which aims at promoting environmental public awareness, in Istanbul, June 9, 2012. <Xinhua/Ma Yan> news@theasian.asia
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Turkey hosts World Cultural Olympics
Turkey is hosting 1,500 students from 135 countries for this years 10th annual World Cultural Olympics which has the slogan of hand-in-hand for humanity. The students are competing in singing, dancing, music and poetry recitation contests. They have been fascinating audiences with their outstanding performances. Children of various religions, languages,…
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People Remember Egytian Martyr Who Helped Oust Mubarak
An Egyptian woman holds a picture of Khaled Said during a silent protest marking the second anniversary of his death at the hands of Egyptian police on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Khaled Said’s death in June, 2010 in Alexandria captured the attention of millions in Egypt and…
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Egyptians Get Angry With Verdict Against Mubarak
An Egyptian protester waves a national flag as he sits on a tree during a demonstration in Tahrir Square to protest against the mixed verdict against former leader Hosni Mubarak and his aides, in Cairo, Egypt, late Monday, June 4, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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People In Istanbul Hang Effigy of Assad In Show Of Anger
People, displaying Turkish, Syrian and Palestinian flags, carry an effigy of Syrian leader Bashar Assad during a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, late Thursday, May 31, 2012. Addressing a summit of the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on…
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Egyptians Defy Result Of Presidential Election
An Egyptian protester holds up a shoe with the sole covered in pictures of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. minister of Foreign affairs Hillary Clinton, and an Israeli flag at Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Overnight, protesters stormed and burned the campaign…
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Vote Counting Begins In Egytian Election
A stack of the ballots counted by election officials are laid on a table at the presidential election in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 24, 2012. As vote-counting began, exit polls by several Arab television stations suggested the Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was ahead of the pack of 13 candidates. The reliability…
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Egyptian Presidential Election In Final Stage
A young girl flies an Egyptian national flag as she listen to Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohammed Mursi in the Egyptian presidential election at a rally Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 20, 2012. Egypt’s election commission is vowing that next week’s presidential election will be free and fair. The May 23-24 presidential…
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Presidential Race Gets Heated In Egypt
Supporters of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq chant slogans under a banner with his photos and Arabic writing which reads “D. Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt’s president ,” during a rally in Tanta, about 90 Kilometers (56 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 11, 2012. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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