The Shiite-led Iraqi government Wednesday took command of 54,000 Sunni fighters here in the capital in a
U.S.-backed effort to ease sectarian mistrust and offer Sunnis a stronger stake in the country’s future.
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Eleven European tourists kidnapped by masked bandits in southern Egypt were freed Monday after a 10-day odyssey that ended when Egyptian and Sudanese commandos swept across a remote desert landscape.
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A popular Sunni Muslim cleric with a television show and a website that churns out religious edicts and dieting tips agitated centuries-old animosities in the Islamic world recently by referring to Shiite Muslims as heretics seeking to invade Sunni societies.
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Four masked men kidnapped 11 European tourists, their guides and a security officer today in rugged territory along Egypt’s southwest border with Libya and Sudan, state-owned television reported.
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He keeps his tools in a torn sack – a hammer, three chisels, a sponge.
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It is a season of egos, high-priced commercials, historical epics, strange comedies and prickly off-camera dramas involving Iranian makeup artists, Syrian directors and Egyptian movie stars.
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His fingers tapping like a tiny army over laptop keys, Waleed Korayem, a university student who quotes Einstein and Voltaire, skims the Internet in a noisy cafe and opens his Facebook group, the one that drives Islamists into fits of rage: Yeah, We Are Seculars and We Are Proud.
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They rise through grit and smog, lifting across the Cairo skyline, drifting over the Nile, twirling above graves, filling the desert sky with twine and color.
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Gamal Kamal Mohammed searched today for a brother who had left the family village years ago and headed to the big city to work in a juice shop and lived with a wife and daughter in a shantytown beneath cliffs the color of butterscotch and honey.
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Hind Hussein returned from the hospital after going into false labor and was nodding off early this morning when the cliff above her shantytown rumbled and boulders the size of tugboats rained down, crushing scores of apartments and houses in a storm of grit and dust.
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