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Egypt: Military Backs El-Sissi In Presidential Run

A run by el-Sissi would be a new turn in Egypt’s turmoil, which began with the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 file photo released by the Egyptian Defense Ministry, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, visits a polling site in the Heliopolis neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, on the first day of voting in the constitutional referendum. Egypt’s state TV said Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 that the country’s Interim President issued a presidential decision, promoting the powerful army chief who led the July coup removed Islamist president from power, to the top military rank of marshal. (AP Photo/Egyptian Defense Ministry via Facebook, File)

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's top generals on Monday endorsed a presidential run by army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the state news agency said, paving the way for the man who ousted the country's Islamist president to enter elections to replace him at the head of a violently divided nation. The official news agency MENA said el-Sissi could officially

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Karzai Demands US Enter Peace Talks With Taliban

Afghan president denounces US-paid propaganda pushing for implementation of the Bilateral Security Agreement.

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley

Afghan president Hamid Karzai said he will not sign the Bilateral Security Agreement unless the United States enters into peace talks with the Taliban. "In exchange for this agreement, we want peace for the people of Afghanistan. Otherwise, it's better for them to leave and our country will find its own way," Karzai told a Kabul news conference

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Love Life Of Israeli PM’s Son Sparks Uproar

News that 23-year-old Yair Netanyahu is dating a non-Jewish Norwegian university student has generated interest not just in gossip columns but has also prompted an uproar from religious lawmakers

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The love life of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son is setting off sparks — in Israeli politics. News that 23-year-old Yair Netanyahu is dating a non-Jewish Norwegian university student has generated interest not just in gossip columns but has also prompted an uproar from religious lawmakers. Orthodox Judaism prohibits

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From Malala To Snowden: Youngsters Who’ve Changed The World

You still have to be 35 to serve as president of the United States and 30 to serve as a senator. But there are plenty of people 30 or under who are making a major impact on the world. Here is MintPress’ list of 11 young overachievers:

Matthew Heller
بواسطة Matthew Heller
Malala Yousafzai gestures as she speaks to an audience during a discussion of her book, "I am Malala" hosted by the John F. Kennedy Library and held at Boston College High School Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Dorchester, Mass. The Pakistani teenager, an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year on her way home from school. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi)

Malala Yousafzai Age: 16 Malala first became a thorn in the side of the Taliban by campaigning to improve the education of girls under Taliban rule in the Swat District of Pakistan. In October 2012, when she was 15, she survived a Taliban assassination attempt that drew worldwide condemnation. Her activism has continued — during an October

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Now You See Me: A Glimpse Into The Zapatista Movement, Two Decades Later

20 years later, people are pouring into one of the Zapatistas’ political centers, known as Oventic, to celebrate.

Laura Gottesdiener
بواسطة Laura Gottesdiener
In this Dec. 27, 2013 photo, a woman sews part of a traditional skirt in the Zapatista controlled community of La Garrucha, Mexico. Since their uprising 20 years ago, Zapatistas, known by their initials as the EZLN, have lived in secretive, closed-off enclaves they have formed in the half-dozen communities they hold. But in the last five months the rebels have opened up their communities to more than 7,000 Mexicans and foreigners interested in learning about how they self-govern and maintain their independence and way of life. Those invited stayed for a week at a time and lived with a Zapatista family. Members of these communities wear masks to hide their identities when outsiders, interested in learning about how they self-govern and maintain their way of life, gain access to visit them. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Growing up in a well-heeled suburban community, I absorbed our society’s distaste for dissent long before I was old enough to grasp just what was being dismissed. My understanding of so many people and concepts was tainted by this environment and the education that went with it: Che Guevara and the Black Panthers and Oscar Wilde and Noam Chomsky

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Florida County With Highest Uninsured Rate Sees Little Impact From Obamacare

Thirty-five percent of Hendry County’s 33,000 residents under age 65 lack health insurance, according to the latest census figures.

Phil Galewitz
بواسطة Phil Galewitz
U.S. Sugar's Clewiston Factory is one of the biggest sugar producing factories in the country and the primary employer in the area with more than 1,600 workers (Photo by Phil Galewitz/KHN).

CLEWISTON, Fla. – – In the city that calls itself “America's Sweetest Town,” the smell of burning sugar cane pierces the 80 degree January air. Steam billows from the 12-story U.S. Sugar Corp. factory that dominates the landscape and the economy in this region, halfway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Some describe the aroma as

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