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Prosecutors allege police role in deadly Egypt soccer riot

Last weekend more than 60 people died in riots triggered when a judge sentenced 21 people to death for their roles in a Feb. 1, 2012, stampede after a soccer game that left 74 dead. On Friday, thousands turned out for protests around the country to mark the anniversary of the tragedy. Few details of that day’s events are known. If people knew what prosecutors think took place, they might be even angrier. | 02/01/13 16:40:35 By - By Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail

Egypt military chief urges end to violent protests, warns nation threatened

CAIRO Declaring that ongoing street protests could lead to the “collapse of the state,” Egypt’s top military general warned Tuesday that if opponents of President Mohammed Morsi continue to paralyze the country through demonstrations, the military might have to intervene to defend the government. | 01/29/13 19:08:41 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Another day of violence leaves Egypt wondering how this will end

Egypt descended into chaos Monday as fresh clashes between protesters and security forces rocked cities around the country, with few people honoring a 9 p.m. curfew that had been ordered in three provinces as demonstrators took to the streets to curse Egypt’s first democratically elected president. | 01/28/13 19:38:44 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Father, mother worry as Egypt’s political divisions color a court’s soccer riot verdict

The death sentence handed down to Adel Mohammed’s son on Saturday for his part in a riot last February that killed 74 soccer fans supposedly helped set off the latest round of deadly protests in Port Said, Egypt. But Mohammed believes the violence, which led to at least 38 deaths and 800 injuries over two days, was not about his son. | 01/27/13 16:19:23 By - By Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail

Port Said soccer riot verdict sparks deadly clashes in Egypt

A court sentence in the death of 74 fans at a Port Said soccer stadium set off the deadliest round of protests in Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s five-month tenure Saturday and a surge violence around the country that showed no signs of subsiding. | 01/26/13 12:11:41 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Amid clashes of Egypt’s Brotherhood, opposition – the quiet struggle of those in the middle

To mark the two-year anniversary of an uprising that led to their ascension, members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood came to the town of Faiyum on Friday with a simple message: The government may not be providing services for you, but the powerful social organization supporting it still can. | 01/25/13 17:56:37 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Britain, Germany, Netherlands urge citizens out of Benghazi

Three European countries urged their citizens to leave the restive eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday after Libyan officials found a threatening message against Europeans outside a foreign-run company, a Libyan congressman said Thursday. | 01/24/13 17:55:09 By - By Nancy Youssef

Algeria’s prime minister describes militant attack, defends intervention

Algeria’s prime minister spoke publicly Monday for the first time about militants’ kidnapping of hundreds of foreign and Algerian workers last week, describing an international group of militants, including at least one Canadian who “coordinated” a well-organized attack that killed 37 people.That an international group of militants could travel hundreds miles from Mali, where al Qaida has evolved from a kidnapping group to a terrorist organization, raised new fears about the threat that the rise of Islamic extremism poses to the north African and U.S. interests here. | 01/21/13 17:35:51 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Final toll of Algeria gas plant drama: 23 hostages dead, 107 safe, 32 terrorists ‘neutralized’

Algeria’s military launched a bloody, brazen “final assault” Saturday on kidnappers holding scores of foreigners and Algerians at a natural gas complex in the country’s east, bringing to an end four days of mayhem that left 23 hostages and 32 kidnappers dead and renewed fears that Islamist extremism is spreading in North Africa. | 01/19/13 18:28:53 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Details emerge of carnage at Algerian natural gas complex; at least one American dead

At least one American died and an unknown number of other foreigners remain unaccounted for Friday as details began to emerge of this week’s assault by Islamist militants on a natural gas production complex in eastern Algeria. | 01/18/13 20:34:08 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Fate of American hostages unknown as Algerians blast Islamists from ground and air

Algerian forces launched a brazen air attack on suspected Islamist militants holding scores of foreign employees of a natural gas complex Thursday, killing kidnappers and hostages alike in what appeared to be a forceful message from Algeria that it would not tolerate jihadist movements operating within its borders. | 01/17/13 20:09:11 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Militants retaliate for Mali intervention with kidnapping in Algeria

Apparently in revenge for France’s intervention in neighboring Mali, an Islamist group attacked a foreign-run gas field in southern Algeria on Wednesday morning and reportedly kidnapped an undetermined number of Americans and dozens of other foreign workers. | 01/16/13 18:35:11 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Egyptian democracy workers still on trial for helping U.S. groups

In a court that usually is hosting drug dealers and murderers, Rawda Ali is the unwitting defender of democracy promotion, charged with helping Western nonprofit organizations operate illegally in Egypt. While her Western colleagues fled months ago, she and 14 Egyptians may face years in jail for their efforts to promote democratic movements among nascent political parties. | 01/16/13 17:09:47 By - By Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail

Iran’s foreign minister works to woo Egypt in Cairo visit

Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday met with top Egyptian officials during a visit to the Egyptian capital that raises questions about how Egypt, the United States’ biggest Arab ally, might recalibrate its formerly standoffish relationship with Iran, America’s biggest regional foe. | 01/10/13 16:21:58 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

Tunisia frees lone suspect in Benghazi attacks, another sign investigation is in trouble

Tunisian authorities on Tuesday released the only man held so far in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according to the suspect’s lawyer, reaffirming fears that the Libyan-led investigation into the deaths is foundering. | 01/08/13 18:08:13 By - By Nancy A. Youssef

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