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A female protestor holds a poster reading in Arabic: 'It must succeed' during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah calling for unity between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on May 30, 2012. At a meeting in Cairo on May 20, senior Fatah and Hamas officials agreed that the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) would start work in Gaza by the end of the month, and that both factions would at the same time begin consultations on forming an interim 'government of independents.'

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  • Egypt's election fever comes to Garbage City

    (AP) -- Election fever has even come to Cairo 's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on -- and living from -- the waste of the Egyptian capital.The tens of thousands of impoverished residents of the district are almost all Christians. For gene   Read more »

  • In Egypt's vote, revolutionaries lack a candidate

    A black smoke covered Cairo's Tahrir Square. Around a dozen protesters who had been holding a weekslong sit-in demanding an end to military rule had come to the conclusion their gathering was useless. So over the weekend, they splashed gas on their tents   Read more »

  • Media watchdogs decry Egypt attacks on reporters

    (AP) -- Two media rights groups on Tuesday condemned the Egyptian military for assaulting and arresting journalists who were covering a recent violent crackdown on anti-military protesters in Cairo .The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said it recor   Read more »

  • Egyptian troops, protesters clash in Cairo

    CAIRO -- Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of   Read more »

  • Ex-US coach Bradley finding his footing in Egypt

    (AP) -- When soccer riots broke out in Egypt in February, Bob Bradley did not hesitate to speak out despite having only just arrived as the new coach of the national team.It didn't matter that the American had been in Egypt less than six months or was st   Read more »

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About Cairo

Cairo/Ciaro (Arabic: القاهرة‎ translit: Qahirah), which means "The Vanquisher" or "The Triumphant", is the capital city of Egypt. While al-Qahirah is the official name of the city, in the Egyptian language it is typically called simply by the name of the country, Masr (Egypt). It has a metropolitan area population of officially about 11.2 million people. Cairo is the twenty-first most populous metropolitan area in the world. Cairo is also the most populous metropolitan area and the most populous city in Africa. The city is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333, 31.21667).

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