Egypt’s Candidates in Fierce Vote Hunt - Turkish Weekly
28 May 2012, 1:20 am
Egypt’s presidential election frontrunners were vying for deals with rival candidates yesterday in a bid to appease a polarized nation that will choose between an Islamist and a Mubarak-era minister in a June runoff. Final votes were still being counted ...

Egypt’s two presidential contenders vie for votes - Namibian
28 May 2012, 12:37 am
CAIRO – The two apparent survivors in Egypt’s presidential race tried to gather support yesterday from voters dismayed at what many see as a painful second-round choice between an Islamist apparatchik and a throwback to Hosni Mubarak’s era.Egypt’s ...

Egypt’s Election Results: Palestinian Victory And Zionist Defeat? – OpEd - eurasiareview.com
28 May 2012, 12:16 am
The official results of the first round of the historic Egyptian presidential elections, the first ever in Mother Egypt where the results were not known in advance, present an encouraging snapshot of “new democratic Egypt” given that close to 50% of ...

Egypt election body weighs complaints - Reuters UK
27 May 2012, 7:08 pm
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's election committee on Sunday considered complaints about a presidential poll that has left voters with what many see as a painful run-off choice between an Islamist apparatchik and a throwback to Hosni Mubarak's era.

Egypt's foreign reserves up, 1st time in 15 months - Yahoo Finance
27 May 2012, 3:40 pm
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's central bank says the nation's foreign currency reserves have recorded their first rise since the uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak 15 months ago. It said on its web site on Sunday the reserves stood at $15 ...

Egypt''s Muslim Brotherhood MPs rebuff Penal Code amendments - MSN India
27 May 2012, 3:40 pm
Cairo, May 27 (PTI) The Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers in Egypt today rejected a bill submitted by the Justice Ministry to amend the penal code, saying that it was a trap and the move seemed politically motivated. The amendment calls for punishing with harsh ...

Some Disdain Both Options in Egypt’s Narrowed Race - New York Times
27 May 2012, 3:09 am
CAIRO — Faced with what seemed like an impossible choice — between a conservative Islamist with a rigid social agenda and a former minister with deep ties to the Mubarak government — Ahmed Abdel Fattah, 33, said he planned to sit out the ...

Egypt’s revolution won’t end with presidential election - Worldnews.com
26 May 2012, 11:41 pm
Egypt (; Arabic: , , ; Coptic: , ; Sahidic Coptic: , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a ...

Egypt’s Sabbahi seeks vote recount cites “violations” - Ya Libnan
26 May 2012, 11:05 pm
The candidate who is said to have come third – missing out on a run-off – in Egypt’s historic election has demanded a recount, citing many “violations”. Hamdin Sabbahi, from the leftist al-Karamah party, said conscripts had voted ...

Egypt's poor turn to age-old help in hard times - BBC News
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
In Boulaq El Dakrour, the largest informal settlement in Giza, Cairo, two widows sit in a cramped room facing each other listening to the tinny sound of prayer recital on the radio. One begins to cry. Wafa's husband died from cancer just over a ...