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Arab League secretary general Nabil al-Arabi smiles during an emergency meeting of the Arab League committee on Syria in Cairo on May 23, 2013. Syria's main opposition group opened key talks in Istanbul to debate whether to agree to negotiate with the regime on ending the two-year civil war under a new US-Russia peace initiative.

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  • Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?

    five-day Mideast trip.What they got was a better understanding of the unfulfilled promises of the Arab Spring -- from Egypt , where the West wonders about economic stability and human rights under Islamist President Mohammed Morsi , to Jordan, which is grappling   Read more »

  • Egypt TV: 7 security men kidnapped in Sinai freed

    in cooperation with the honorable tribal leaders and Sinai residents."The development came just hours after the Egyptian military launched a massive sweep, searching for the seven in the volatile peninsula bordering the Gaza Strip and Israel.   Read more »

  • Militants kidnap 6 Egyptian security men in Sinai

    -- Suspected militants in Egypt 's Sinai abducted six security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said, the first such kidnapping of security forces in the increasingly lawless peninsula.The officials said masked   Read more »

  • Egypt court sentences 3 in deadly train accident

    -- An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced three railway workers to two years hard labor for a train accident that killed 19 police recruits earlier this year.The state-run news agency MENA reported Saturday that the train conductor and two supervisors were   Read more »

  • Egypt opposition files court case to reveal budget

    -- Several Egyptian opposition groups have filed a court case to force the government to disclose the proposed national budget.Representatives of some opposition parties and workers unions say Saturday they filed the request to an administrative court in an   Read more »

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About Egypt

Egypt (Egyptian: Km.t ; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Kīmi ; Arabic: مصر Miṣr ; Egyptian Arabic: Máṣr), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,560 square miles), Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively.

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