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CAIRO — Security officials and witnesses say several hundred people have ransacked the campaign headquarters of an Egyptian presidential candidate who was ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister. The crowd attacked Ahmed Shafiq’s Cairo ...  

Cairo, Egypt - The stately marble staircase of the Journalists' Syndicate in downtown Cairo, a common setting for protests over decades, slowly filled on a Sunday afternoon in late May. Young activists, dressed in t-shirts expressing disdain for ...  

Two US tourists have been kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai peninsula by Bedouins protesting the arrest of one of their tribesmen on a drugs charge, a security official said on Thursday.The tourists were abducted late on Wednesday near the resort of Dahab on the Red Sea, the official said, adding that talks were under way in a bid to secure their release.The two men were driving near the Dahab resort when they were stopped by a group of Bedouins at a...  

The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Mursi got 589,715 votes while moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh got 553,200 and Amr Moussa got 393,461 votes. Mursi came first in Giza with 556,630 votes, Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported sources at ...  

Cairo, Egypt – May 26, 2012 – Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd, the local search company, is offering a SoLoMo solutions packages designed for small to medium-sized businesses, which it says are also ideal for start-up enterprises.Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd, through its new brand Yellow Media, offers its customers a comprehensive SoLoMo, or social-local-mobile, solution, where the company manages a customer’s social needs through platforms like Facebook...  

REUTERSProtesters wave their shoes during a protest against presidential candidates Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq at Tahrir Square. CAIRO -- Protesters flocked to Tahrir Square in Cairo on Monday, as young activists took to the streets to demonstrate against a run-off election to choose Egypt's first freely elected president...  

An annex in Shafiq's headquarters in Cairo went up in flames late on Monday, hours after election officials announced that the former prime minister, a symbol of Hosni Mubarak's rule ... Posters torn up Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, reporting ...  

Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Egypt, where protests erupted last night after final results were announced in the country's first-ever competitive presidential election. The top two candidates in the first round of the race are Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister under Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in a popular uprising 15 months ago. "[Shafik] speaks the language of Mubarak's regime. And what...  

An annex in Shafiq's headquarters in Cairo went up in flames hours after election officials announced that the former premier, a symbol of Hosni Mubarak's ousted ... a run-off between Mohammed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq." The results exposed a ...  

A contest between Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik would decide whether the nation is to be ruled by political Islamists or the secularists who defined Mubarak's police state.CAIRO — Egypt's two most polarizing presidential candidates appeared headed for a runoff election next month that will decide whether the nation will be ruled by an ascendant political Islam or return to the secularist spirit that defined Hosni Mubarak's toppled police...  

Cairo (CNN)-- A court convicted five Egyptian police officers of murder Tuesday for killing protesters in the February 2011 uprising that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The convictions in Cairo Criminal Court come a day before the ...  

Cairo: Ahmad Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak's last premier, was mobbed by an angry crowd at a polling station on the outskirts of Cairo, local media reported. Shafiq, an ex-army general, was attacked by verbal abuses and shoes thrown at him as he emerged from the ...  

CAIRO: The apartment blocks on my street in downtown Cairo have accommodated many cycles of Egypt’s political tumult in the past 18 months. A stone’s throw from Tahrir Square, they have been enveloped in teargas, pockmarked by Molotov ...  

Egypt's Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes power. CAIRO - Egypt's Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get ...  

Al-Alam, which has operated a Cairo bureau for more than 10 years, has applied for a license on numerous occasions only to be rebuffed, the bureau's director, Ahmed al-Shweify ... and after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in January 2011.