Egypt News By Asfory
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 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout.

Ahmadinejad, who arrived as Gates was wrapping up a three-day visit, told a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai that U.S. and Western troops would never defeat terrorism by waging war in Afghanistan.
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 Initial results from Iraq’s national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a largely Shi’ite group that is challenging Maliki’s bid to win a second term, told a news conference that according to their informal tallies the prime minister was ahead in at least 10 of Iraq’s 18 provinces.

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A court case brought by the family of Rachel Corrie, a US protester killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003, has begun in Israel.

The civil action against the Israeli defence ministry will decide whether damages should be paid for her death in Gaza at the age of 23.
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Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks. “It is incumbent on both parties to build an atmosphere of support for negotiations and not to complicate them,” Biden said in a media statement alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “Yesterday the decision by the Israeli government to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem undermines that very trust, the trust that we need right now in order to begin … profitable negotiations,” Biden said.

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The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s call for jihad against Switzerland.

Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US policy and were not intended to offend.

Col Gaddafi had criticised a Swiss vote against the building of minarets and urged Muslims to boycott the country.

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Israel and Syria have both told a conference in Paris they want to use nuclear power to generate electricity.

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told delegates his country wanted to build new nuclear plants to reduce its dependence on coal.

Syria’s deputy foreign minister said the peaceful application of nuclear energy should not be monopolised.
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A new play has shocked audiences in the Gaza Strip by shouting out what many in the Hamas-ruled territory mutter behind closed doors — that Palestinian politicians are a bunch of crooks.

The biting comedy entitled “Umbilical Cord” goes after the Islamist Hamas and its secular Fatah rivals, accusing them of ignoring the suffering of their people and selling out to Iran and the United States, respectively.

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طالب طارق الهاشمي نائب الرئيس العراقي بأن يتولي رئاسة العراق في المرحلة المقبلة شخصية عربية في الوقت الذي أظهرت فيه تقديرات أولية لنتائج الانتخابات البرلمانية في العراق تقدم ائتلاف دولة القانون .

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كشف مسئولون إسرائيليون و وسائل إعلام غربية عن أن تل أبيب تتجه إلي بناء منشأة نووية جديدة لاغراض سلمية .
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أعلنت النيابة العامة بدبي أمس أنها أصدرت أوامر قبض دولية لعدد‏16‏ متهما في قضية مقتل المسئول في حركة حماس محمود المبحوح.
 

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