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Army Corps Preps to Blast Levee to Save Town; Legal Tussle Looms

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- As ominous as a floating hearse, twin barges creep up the Mississippi River carrying a payload of explosives bound for southeast Missouri and a levee facing the prospect of being sacrificed to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver. The Army Corps of Engineers' tugboat-shoved shipments...

Army Corps Delays Decision on Breaking Mo. Levee

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has put off making a final decision on a controversial plan to intentionally breach a levee protecting valuable farmland from the rising Mississippi River. The agency made the announcement Tuesday in Memphis following a teleconference and decided to put off a formal...

Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed in Egypt

CAIRO -- Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues found to date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday. The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pair that flanked the northern...

Egypt: At Least 846 People Killed in Protests, Uprising

CAIRO -- An Egyptian government fact-finding mission says at least 846 people were killed during the popular uprising that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. The mission, consisting of a panel of judges, detailed in its Tuesday report what it described as the excessive use of force by security forces in the face of...

Egypt's Ex-President Mubarak Detained for Investigation

CAIRO - Egypt's prosecutor general announced Wednesday the 15-day detention of the country's former president, pending inquiries into accusations of corruption and abuse of authority in an unprecedented investigation of a former ruler in the Arab world. The announcement was the latest in a dramatic series of events...

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06/03/12 Cairo set for second night of protests Source: Al Jazeera Cairo's Tahrir Square fell quiet after a night of protests fuelled by anger at the acquittals of several former Mubarak-era officials, but crowds were expected to return later to express frustration amid fears for Egypt's stalling revolution.
06/03/12 EGYPT: Islamic Hardliners Becoming Aggressive Source: IPS Inter Press Service Shrines venerated for centuries by Sufi Muslims have come under attack as Islamic fundamentalists seek to purge the Egyptian landscape of "heretical" artifacts that do not conform to their strict interpretation of Islam.
06/03/12 Hundreds protest Mubarak verdict in Cairo Source: Herald Sun Some of the demonstrators had slept in tents or out in the open overnight in the iconic square, epicentre of an anti-regime revolt that ousted Mubarak in 2011 after three decades of autocratic rule.
06/03/12 EFG-Hermes reject Planet IB bid Source: Gulf News EFG-Hermes Holding rejected a bid from Planet IB that valued the biggest publicly-traded Arab investment bank at a 23 per cent premium to the closing price in favour of a joint-venture with Qatar's QInvest.
06/03/12 Hundreds protest Mubarak verdict in Cairo Source: PerthNow - Australia Some of the demonstrators had slept in tents or out in the open overnight in the iconic square, epicentre of an anti-regime revolt that ousted Mubarak in 2011 after three decades of autocratic rule.

Background on cairo

Cairo ( ; , literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror"), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world.

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