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#US senator blocks $650 million aid package to #Egypt over rights abuses
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Egyptians react outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and other alleged Islamists to death on April 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP -Khaled Desouki) Egyptians react outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and other alleged Islamists to death on April 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP -Khaled Desouki)

A senior US senator has moved to block hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt to protest the death sentences imposed on nearly 700 suspected Islamists. Denouncing Egypt’s “dictatorship run amok” and its “egregious violation of human rights,” (...)

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In south Egypt, Islamists take over a town

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A town of some 120,000 - including 20,000 Christians - Dalga has been outside government control since hard-line supporters of the Islamist Mohammed Morsi drove out police and occupied their station on July 3, the day Egypt’s military chief removed the president in a popularly supported coup. It was part of a wave of attacks in the southern Minya province that targeted Christians, their homes and businesses.

Since then, the radicals have imposed their grip on Dalga, twice driving off attempts by the army to send in armored personnel carriers by showering them with gunfire.