Egypt

A J-15 fighter jet takes off from China's first aircraft carrier, the <em>Liaoning</em>

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International |  Operation World is a great resource—loaded with demographic information about religious and ethnic groups around the world—but it’s also a daily prayer…

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi

'Pharaoh' Morsi

Middle East |  The diplomatic hosannas for Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi following his brokering of the recent ceasefire between Hamas and Israel were still being heard…

Protesters gather in Tahrir Square on Sunday.

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International |  Tahrir Square in Cairo, once the central site for democratic change in Egypt, has turned on President Mohamed Morsi, the movement’s leading force for…

WWII veteran Ben Kauffman, 86, salutes during a Veterans Day ceremony in Loveland, Colo., Sunday.

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International |  Yesterday was Veterans Day in the United States, though today is the federal holiday honoring it. Of the more than 17,000 American military personnel…

Egyptian Copts carry a Christian cross and a candle and chant prayers.

Egypt frees boys held for alleged Quran defiling

Religion |  CAIRO (AP)—An Egyptian security official says authorities have ordered the release of two Coptic Christian boys taken into in juvenile detention for…

Egyptian boys detained for alleged Quran defiling

Egyptian boys detained for alleged Quran defiling

Religion |  CAIRO (AP)—Two Coptic Christian boys have been put in juvenile detention after locals accused them of urinating on pages of the Islamic holy book, an…

Aftermath of today's bombings in Aleppo

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International |  Four apparent suicide bombs in Aleppo today have killed at least 40 and reduced to rubble large swaths of the ancient city. The area bombed included public…

Afghan police secure the site of a suicide bombing in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghan on Monday.

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International |  The case of Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old who was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, was scheduled for today in an…

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi

Who needs reform most: Egypt or America?

Egypt |  NEW YORK—Prior to leaving Egypt for the United Nations General Assembly, Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi told The New York Times the United States…

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi

Morsi calls for end to war in Syria

Egypt |  NEW YORK (AP)—Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi, making his debut on the global stage at the United Nations, said Wednesday that he will not rest until…

Libyan guards block the gate of the U.S Consulate in Benghazi

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International |  The deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya on Sept. 11 “was preceded by a succession of security lapses and misjudgments, compounded by…

Sri Lankan Muslims protest by burning effigies of President Obama and U.S. flags.

Our burning embassies and our president

Foreign Policy |  There have been riots and burnings from England to Indonesia. Islamist radicals murdered our ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. All this, we are…

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