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Egyptian court seeks death sentence for 12 accused in policeman death
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An Egyptian court signaled on Wednesday it wanted death sentences for 12 defendants charged with killing a police officer and belonging to a terrorist group, when it referred the case to the country’s highest religious authority. The state news agency said only seven of the defendants were present in court when the judge read his ruling against those accused of killing Major General Nabil Farag last September when security forces arrested Islamist militants supportive of ousted President Mohammed Mursi. read more

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#Egypt arrests 16 members of “terrorist” #Muslim_Brotherhood
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Egypt escalated its #crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, detaining at least 16 of the group’s supporters on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization the day after it was declared one by the government. The activists were held in the Nile Delta province of Sharkiya on suspicion of “promoting the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood group, distributing its leaflets, and inciting violence against the army and police,” the state news agency said. read more

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The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive---Voice of Russia English language service : December 12, 2013
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le perce-oreilles // President Vladimir Putin (Source: Wikimedia Commons) (Adapted from original on SWLing Post) This morning, I tuned to the Voice of Russia (a.k.a. Radio VR) English language service to hear the state news agency’s take on the sweeping changes President Vladimir Putin implemented yesterday. I (...)

China Patrols Air Zone Over Disputed Islands - NYTimes.com
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China sent fighter jets on the first patrols of its new air defense zone over disputed islands in the East China Sea on Thursday, the state news agency, Xinhua, said.
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The tit-for-tat flights between China on one side and South Korea and Japan on the other heightened the tensions over the East China Sea where China and Japan are at loggerheads over islands they both claim.

On remarquera que ce « je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette » ne concerne en rien les États-Unis. Il faut aller trois paragraphes plus bas pour rappeler que eux aussi sont partie prenante.

In a direct challenge to earlier threats by China that it could take military action against foreign aircraft entering the zone, the United States sent two unarmed B-52 bombers to fly through the airspace for more than two hours overnight Monday.

EU’s Moran : ’June 30 was a popular revolution’ | Mada Masr

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On Monday, James Moran, head of the EU delegation to Egypt, said that the EU “understands full well that June 30 was a popular revolution against the former regime,” according to the state news agency.

In recent comments, US Secretary of State John Kerry’s stance fell along the same lines, saying that the Egyptian Armed Forces are bringing democracy back to their country. The statements came two weeks after an early November visit to Egypt, Kerry’s first since Mohamed Morsi’s removal after an army ultimatum, which was spurred by popular protests.

Clashes as thousands of Brotherhood supporters march in #Egypt
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Defying a crackdown, thousands of supporters of Egypt’s #Muslim_Brotherhood marched through a Cairo suburb on Friday toward the site of their former protest camp that was crushed by security forces in August, a Reuters witness said. Soldiers and policemen boosted their presence around Rabaa al-Adaweya mosque, the larger of the Brotherhood’s two former Cairo sit-ins, as the march approached, the state news agency reported. read (...)

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Yemeni lieutenant killed by car bomb
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A Yemeni lieutenant colonel was killed on Wednesday by a bomb planted in his car, the state news agency said, the latest in a string of attacks on security officials blamed by government on Islamist insurgents. The Saba news agency said the incident took place in al-Atiq, the capital of the volatile southern province of Shabwa, near the city’s vegetable market. The blast killed Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Saidi and seriously wounded another man, a passer-by, the official said. A medical (...)

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Bahrain says deports U.S. teacher for writing articles on radical websites | Reuters
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The teacher wrote articles for online publications including As-Safir newspaper, which is linked to Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah, and the outlawed Bahrain Center for Human Rights newsletter, the state news agency said on Saturday.