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A day after Egypt's run-off election, President-elect Mohammed Morsi began working on assembling a unity government and said Egypt "will preserve the international accords and treaties." Jeffrey Brown recaps the latest developments. ... GWEN IFILL: Egypt has a new president, one whose election could represent a sharp turn ...
Former President Carter helps an Egyptian voter at a polling station in Cairo on May 24 during the first round of presidential elections. Photo by Wissam Saleh/AFP/Getty Images. Former President Jimmy Carter, whose Atlanta-based Carter Center observed voting in Egypt's presidential election, criticized the ruling military ...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a courtroom in Cairo. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. Updated July 16 at 1:26 p.m. ET: The prosecutor general's office ordered former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak back to prison on Monday after about a month in a military hospital, a sign ...
... GWEN IFILL: The word came late today from Egypt's state news agency that ousted President Hosni Mubarak was clinically dead. That was followed closely by reports challenging that account. We get more now from Nancy Youssef with the McClatchy Newspapers in Cairo. Nancy is joining us by telephone ...
Egypt's ruling generals issued a "constitution declaration" last weekend aimed at putting in place checks on presidential powers after the parliament was dissolved. Judy Woodruff speaks to Nancy Youssef of McClatchy Newspapers in Cairo about the latest developments and the emerging results of the presidential election. ... JEFFREY BROWN: A ...
... though one -- we might look at this as the military behind the scenes pulling the strings. Another way to look at this is that the Egyptian judiciary has stepped in and wants to assert its influence over the process. JEFFREY BROWN: Well, tell us about that judiciary and this court ...
... came by chance. JONATHAN RUGMAN: People think the military are pulling the strings. MONA NASSER: No. The military are not pulling the strings. It's Egypt. It's the Egyptians. JONATHAN RUGMAN: The people? MONA NASSER: It's the people who are pulling the strings. JONATHAN RUGMAN: The graffiti in ...
... to elections in Greece this weekend. If leftist parties win power, they may cancel the terms of an international bailout and quit the eurozone. In Egypt, the country's highest court dealt a double blow to the newly empowered Muslim Brotherhood. The judges found the law governing last fall's ...
On Saturday, longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his role in not stopping the killing of protesters during the Arab Spring. Also, his associates and sons were found not guilty. Gwen Ifill speaks with McClatchy Newspapers' Nancy Youssef about the intense demonstrations in Tahrir ...
... s by everyone's estimation a rather uncharismatic leader, but has the backing of a huge organized machine here, the best organized political machine in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, which really galvanized the vote on his behalf. And he has promised to bring back -- bring Egypt the kind of Islamic ...
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