CAIRO Had Egypts post-revolutionary political winds held steady, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhoods presidential candidate, would have been coasting to victory in this months election.
Instead, hes running an underdog campaign. The groups prodigious political machine, which turned the once-besieged opposition movement into the dominant force in parliament early this year, has to contend with an uncharismatic candidate and a shift in public opinion as many Egyptians have soured on the venerable Islamist organization.
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon A small but increasingly vocal number of Lebanons Sunni Muslims are backing Islamist leaders calls for regime change in neighboring Syria and voicing their fierce discontent with their own government, a sign that the sectarianism splitting Syria may be deepening Lebanons longstanding divides.
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JERUSALEM Israeli and Palestinian officials announced Monday that more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners had agreed to end a nearly month-long hunger strike in exchange for concessions by Israel, including a modification to its practice of detention without charge or trial.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatically bolstered his ruling coalition this week with a unity deal meant to help him thwart challenges from fringe factions. But Yoel Krois, a man with sidelocks past his shoulders and a record of confronting authorities, says he remains ready for a fight.
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BEIRUT A bomb struck a Syrian military convoy escorting the head of a U.N. observer mission Wednesday, injuring several Syrian soldiers and illustrating the vulnerability of the unarmed and unprotected mission as it struggles to monitor a badly fraying cease-fire.
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SANAA, Yemen He has dispatched his own brother to death, hiding a bomb on him before he crossed into Saudi Arabia to target the kingdoms chief counterterrorism official. He has tried to attack the United States three times in the past three years, building small, sophisticated and hard-to-detect devices in his workshop in the rugged terrain of southern Yemen.
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