Egyptian Mohamed Bishr was offered £205,000 to play the despot, who was executed six years ago ( Read more... )

Here is the narrative that pretty much everyone was buying into 36 hours ago: Crude anti-Islam film made by Israeli-American and funded by Jews leads to Muslim protests that boil over, causing four American deaths in Libya ( Read more... )

SANA, Yemen - Turmoil in the Arab world linked to an American-made video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread on Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters attacked the American Embassy, two days after assailants killed four Americans in Libya, including the ambassador, and crowds tried to overrun the embassy compound in Cairo.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday, tore down the American flag and burned it during a protest over what they said was a film being produced in the United States that insulted Prophet Mohammad.

In place of the U.S. flag, the protesters tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but ( Read more... )

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has sentenced an Islamist politician to jail for committing an indecent sexual act in public and assaulting police who arrested him, in a case that could damage the image of his ultra-conservative movement.

Ali Wanees was detained in June on a main road outside Cairo. A young woman wearing a full face veil was ( Read more... )

Mohammed Morsi arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday on his first official international visit as President of Egypt.

President Morsi -- who has also received an invitation from U.S. President Barack Obama to visit America when he attends the United Nations' General Assembly (UNGA) in September -- was in the kingdom to meet with King Abdullah bin ( Read more... )

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CAIRO (AP) - Mohammed Morsi was declared Egypt's first Islamist president on Sunday, chosen in the freest elections in history that left the nation deeply polarized between supporters of an old regime figure and those eager for democratic change.

It was the culmination of the tumultuous first phase of a transition launched 16 months ago with the ( Read more... )