Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) was an Egyptian political leader and hero of much of the Arab world. His devotion to Arab unity and a strongly anti-imperialist ideology came to be called "Nasserism."Th...
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Cairo (dpa) - The cause of death of a wealthy Egyptian
businessman and one-time advisor to former president Anwar al-Sadat,
was still vague, a day after he was found dead, n...
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Today is Thursday, July 26, the 207th day of 2007. There are 158 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the...
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Police arrested the main financier and strategist of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood opposition group Thursday, security and group officials said.The Brotherhood said police also swept up nearl...
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Cairo (dpa) - The funeral of Ashraf Marwan, the Egyptian
billionaire who died mysteriously in London earlier in the week, took
place in Cairo Sunday afternoon.
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Tel Aviv (dpa) - The conflict known variously as The Six-Day War,
the 1967 War and the June War, changed the Middle East and had a
greater impact on the region in the post-W...
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Tel Aviv/Cairo (dpa) - Approximately 260,000 Israeli soldiers
faced an estimated 450,000 Arab troops from Egypt, Syria, Jordan,
Iraq, Algeria and Kuwait.
By t...
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Today is Saturday, June 23, the 174th day of 2007. There are 191 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 23, 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for his "Type-write...
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Ashraf Marwan, the controversial son-in-law of Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, has died, a state-run news agency reported Wednesday. He was 62.The death of Marwan, suspected of being a d...
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The son-in-law of Egypt's late president was laid to rest Sunday amid lingering mystery over his strange death and alleged role as a double agent who tricked Israel into complacency over the 1973 Y...
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
ROUNDUP: Former Egyptian president's son-in-law's death a mystery
