Polling stations close in Egypt

Source: Radio New Zealand

Polling stations have closed in Egypt after the second day of voting in the first free presidential election 15 months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. The BBC reports that if there is no outright winner, the two leading candidates will go into a run ...
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PRI’s The World: 05/24/2012 (Ghana, Germany, Norway)

Source: PRI's The World

Questions raised in Egypt about how fair and free the country’s first post-revolution elections have been. Also, why Germany is cracking down the Hells Angels biker gang. Plus, our series “Beyond Class” examines how 60 years of ...
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Front-runner attacked on way to Egypt's landmark poll

Source: The Independent

The front page of yesterday's state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper said it all. Above a giant photo of a young soldier taking an elderly women by the hand and helping her into a polling station, a banner headline read: "The p ...
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Egypt's Brotherhood Claims Early Lead as Vote Count Begins

Source: Voice of America

As Egyptians wrapped up two days of voting in a historic presidential election, early indicators showed the Muslim Brotherhood's Islamist candidate taking the lead among the five presumed front-runners. A spokesman for the Brother ...
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Israel Can’t Solve Africa’s Problems

Source: Commentary

It is no small irony that a country like the United States that was built by and prospered because of immigration would come to regard the influx of foreigners to our shores as a problem. That is also true of ...
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Vegas grocer accused of war crimes sent to Bosnia

Source: MSNBC

LAS VEGAS — A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a la ...
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Egypt balloting ends with even Mubarak’s hometown in suspense

Source: McClatchy

KAFR EL-MESELHA, Egypt — In the birthplace of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, where his pristine picture once hung over the bridge that welcomes visitors and residents know the Mubarak family by name, Shedya Abdel Aziz bravely announced Thursda ...
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Bringing back Tomb Raider: Our need to fill the old archeologist’s shoes

Source: VentureBeat

“Fortune and glory.” Those two driving forces inspired a hero in 1977, when George Lucas took the advice of fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg and gave the world not Indiana Smith, but Indiana Jones. The fedora-hatt ...
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Mexico on a tourism drive

Source: Stuff.co.nz

FEELING THE HEAT: Tourists shelter from the sun near one of the ancient pyramids in the Mayan city of Palenque in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. OUT FOR A STROLL: A couple walks along Marlin beach in Mexico. The country is seeking to overh ...
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