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Egypt: Constitution Changes Pass in Referendum

CAIRO -- Egyptian voters overwhelmingly approved changes in the constitution, opening the way for parliamentary and presidential elections within months, according to final results from a landmark referendum announced today. Opponents fear the swift timetable could boost the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and members of...

Egypt Votes Freely for First Time in Half-Century

CAIRO -- Millions of Egyptians voted freely on Sunday for the first time in more than half a century, joyfully waiting for hours to cast their ballots on a package of constitutional changes eliminating much-hated restrictions on political rights and civil liberties. Young people traded mobile-phone pictures of ink-stained...

Egyptians Vote in Major Test of Shift to Democracy

CAIRO -- Eager for their first taste of a free vote in decades, Egyptians lined up by the hundreds Saturday to vote on constitutional amendments sponsored by the ruling military that critics fear could propel the country's largest Islamist group to become Egypt's most dominant political force. The nationwide referendum is...

World Reaction: Twitter Erupts, 'Welcome Back, Egypt!'

As cries of triumph rang out from the elated crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square, world reaction was swift and jubilant to the news that Hosni Mubarak had resigned as president of Egypt today. One of the most visible faces of the opposition, Egypt's Google marketing manager Wael Ghonim, took to Twitter minutes after Vice...

Mubarak Driven From Egyptian Presidency: A Timeline

For the past 30 years, many Egyptians have regarded President Hosni Mubarak in the same way they view the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza: an immovable, permanent feature of their landscape. But that era has ended. Mubarak was driven from office today after decades in power and a final show of defiance. The 82-year-old...

mohamed elbaradei News From the Web

06/02/12 Khartoum, Sudan: Rights groups call for an end to... Source: Namibia News Protesters in Egypt stage a demonstration over death of 28-year-old businessman.
05/24/12 AP Interview: ElBaradei Says Egypt Has Ways to Go Source: Namibia News Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei has announced he is pulling out of the presidential race in protest against the regime of military rulers.
04/29/12 Saudis close embassy in Egypt Source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque IA Saudi Arabia closed its Cairo embassy Saturday and recalled its ambassador following protests over a detained Egyptian human rights lawyer in a sharp escalation of tension between two regional powerhouses already on shaky terms due to uprisings in the Arab world.
04/28/12 Egypt's Salafis back moderate for president Source: Boston.com - Boston MA The Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed El Baradei, center, surrounded by his supporters upon his arrival to the journalists syndicate for holding a presser to launch his new Constitution political party in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 28, 2012.
04/09/12 Open thread for night owls: Covert action in Iran has... Source: Daily Kos From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy's Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, was once used for nuclear testing, and now includes a counterintelligence training facility and a private airport capable of handling Boeing 737 aircraft.

Background on mohamed elbaradei

Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei (, , ; born June 17, 1942) is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat. He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations, from December 1997 to November 2009. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. ElBaradei was also an important figure in the 2011 Egyptian revolution which ousted the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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