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Top 5 Mid-East governments at risk of toppling

The Egyptians weren't the first peoples in the Arab world to rise up against an oppressive government in 2011. Before that Facebook group was made, the people of Tunisia rose up against their (now former) presi...
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Swiss freeze Mubarak assets

Switzerland has frozen the assets of Hosni Mubarak, who resigned as president of Egypt on Friday after 30 years of rule. "I can confirm that Switzerland has frozen possible assets of the former Egyptian pres...
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Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak steps down

Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president after 18 days of protests by the country's people, and 30 years as the country's ruler. The move was a surprise, as many thought Mubarak planned to step down y...
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Report: Mubarak leaves Cairo

As protests rage on in Egypt with an increasing level of anger over President Hosni Mubarak's Thursday broadcast, in which he announced he would not step down, a report surfaced Friday that Mubarak had left the...
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West is moving too slow on Egypt

Is Egypt ready for democracy? The question itself is insulting, and I'm not even Egyptian. The main concern? If Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak leaves immediately, and elections are held within two mont...
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The queen’s burial chamber discovered

ROME -- Excavations by a team of French archaeologists in el-Shawaf, Saqqara, Egypt have brought to light the burial chamber of the queen of the Fourth Dynasty, Behenu, wife of Pepi I (Merytawy) or Pepi II (Net...
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Louvre returns relics to Egypt

The famed Louvre museum quickly resolved its quarrel with Egypt yesterday by agreeing to return the steles Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass accused them of purchasing on the black market, the New York Times reports.
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First human to pig transfer of swine flu in Alberta

A Central Alberta pig farm is under quarantine after its hogs caught the same H1N1 virus that has sickened over a thousand humans worldwide. The news has heightened fears among pig farmers, whose animals already face much prejudice because of the virus’s common name, swine flu.