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CAIRO - Egypt's Islamist-led parliament voted to appoint a top politician in the Muslim Brotherhood as the new assembly's speaker, the Brotherhood said on its website, a choice that would have been unthinkable when Hosni Mubarak was in power. Mohamed Saa
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A general view of the first Egyptian parliament session after a revolution ousted former President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo January 23, 2012. Egypt's parliament opened on Monday for the first time since a historic free election put Islamists in the driving
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One Islamist member, Mamdouh Ismail, read the oath that vows allegiance to the nation and its laws but added his own words "so long as it does not oppose God's law," prompting the speaker to tell him repeat it without his own addition. The rise of the Is
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Egypt's new parliament has opened for its first session since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak last February. For decades Egypt's parliament was dominated by the notoriously corrupt National Democratic Party. Now for the first time in its 84-year
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The rise of the Islamists marks a sea change from Mubarak’s era when parliament was a compliant body stuffed with members of his National Democratic Party and the Muslim Brotherhood was officially banned though semi-tolerated. Cairo: Egypt’s parliament s
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament opened on Monday for the first time since a historic free election put Islamists in the driving seat after years of repression under deposed President Hosni Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party
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Egypt's new lower house of parliament has convened its first session just days after completing a historic election that put Islamists in the legislative driving seat following the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak in February. Mahmoud al-Saqa, 81,
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By Marwa Awad CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament sits on Monday for the first time since a historic free election that put Islamists in the driving seat after years of repression under former president Hosni Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood's party was
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What are the big stories in the Arab world today? A newly elected parliament is being seated, and a deposed president is leaving the country. But beyond that, the remarkable thing is that there are any political stories at all. There weren’t, a year and
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Just days after finishing a historic election that put Islamists in the legislative driving seat, Egypt's parliament on Monday will sit for the first time since President Hosni Mubarak was deposed nearly one year ago. The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and
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An Egyptian soldier stands guard outside the Egyptian parliament in Cairo. New elected members of Egypt's parliament will sit on Monday for the first time since the election. Cairo - Egypt's parliament sits for the first time on Monday since Hosni Mubara
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Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s newly elected parliament convenes today for the first time since the downfall of Hosni Mubarak with Islamists dominating a legislature in which they once had no presence. Religious groups led by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Fre
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood won by far the biggest share of seats allocated to party lists in Egypt's first freely-elected parliament in decades, final results confirmed, giving it a major role in drafting the country's new constitution. A t
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Elections committees in Daqahliya announced the elections results of party lists in Daqahliya's first and third constituencies which took place Wednesday and Thursday. According to the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party's (FJP) website, the p
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Human rights organizations said today that prominent figures of Mubarak's regime from the dissolved National Democratic Party NDP are dragging the SCAF to more confrontations with people and civil democratic powers in Egypt, the last of which is re-propo
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(Nairobi) - The Ethiopian Federal High Court on January 19, 2012, convicted three Ethiopian journalists, an opposition leader, and a fifth person under an anti-terrorism law that violates free expression and due process rights, Human Rights Watch said to
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Egyptian civil society activists today condemned new proposals to regulate nongovernmental organizations. The proposed rules are an attempt to curb independent voices led by “remnants of the dissolved National Democratic Party” and “followers of the oust
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MOSCOW, January 18 (RIA Novosti) - Egyptian engineers have started dismantling equipment and machinery at a nuclear power plant construction site after looters damaged parts of the station, the Al-Masry Al-Youm daily reported. Engineers from Cairo arrive
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Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa, who was jailed in 2010 for the murder of a Lebanese pop singer, will be retried next month as sought by prosecutors who complained his 15-year sentence was too lenient, a court said Monday. The Supreme Egyptian Cri
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The Supreme Egyptian Criminal Court decided that it would begin the new trial of Moustafa for the murder of singer and former lover Suzanne Tamim from February 6, an AFP correspondent reported. But in November that year the prosecution complained the sen
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The National Democratic Party (Arabic:الحزب الوطنى الديمقراطى, often simply الحزب الوطني--the "National Party" or "Nationalist Party"--in conversation) was established in 1978 by late president Anwar Sadat who headed the party till 1981. After Sadat's assassination, the party has been chaired by President Hosni Mubarak and is the current ruling... Full Article
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