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• Militants kidnap 6 Egyptian security men in Sinai

  -- Suspected militants in Egypt 's Sinai abducted six security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said, the first such kidnapping of security forces in the increasingly lawless peninsula.The officials said masked   Read more »

• Palestinian rivals promise unity government

  official Azzam al-Ahmed said both sides agreed on a timetable that begins with creating laws to govern elections.Al-Ahmed spoke in Cairo after he met with a Hamas delegation led by Moussa Abu Marzouk. Tuesday's meeting was brokered by Egyptian intelligence   Read more »

• Syria's industrialists join exodus from country

  Lebanon, Turkey and the Gulf.Syrian merchants and factory owners have rented apartments in the Lebanese capital as well as Dubai and Cairo. Many skyscrapers dotting Lebanon's famed Mediterranean corniche are known to have been rented out to Syrians at exorbitant   Read more »

• Cairo hardline Islamists protest Iranian tourists

  only allowed to visit certain sites, such as ancient Egyptian temples and tombs in the country's south. They did not visit Cairo after objections by some ultraconservative Sunni Muslims to visitors from Shiite Iran. There were also concerns that Iranian visits   Read more »

• Hamas says in final round of leadership vote

  -- Senior Hamas figures gathered for the last stage of internal elections on Monday in Cairo, where two officials in the Islamic militant movement said a new leader may be announced later in the day.Qatar-based Khaled Mashaal, who has run the Palestinian movement   Read more »

Around the web

• Egyptian president discusses bilateral relation with Qatari Premier

  President Mohamed Mursi talks with U.S. Senator John McCain (not seen) during their meeting in Cairo January 16, 2013. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih President Mohamed Mursi met with Qatari Premier and Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jassim on Thursday to discuss bilateral 4:01 PM from Aswat Masriya  Read more »

• Hamas, fatah flirt with unity deal

  and Hamas agreed to form a unity government within three months at talks in Cairo last week. Similar agreements have been reached on several occasions over the past few years, but none have been implemented. A Fatah official said both sides had agreed on a 3:26 PM from The Jewish Chronicle Read more »

• AP PHOTOS: Egypt's languishing Islamic antiquities

  In this photo taken Tuesday, May 14, 2013, an Egyptian artisan works on a handmade rug at his workshop in the historical Fatimid Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser). In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, garbage is piled along the street leading to 2:17 PM from ABC6 Columbus Ohio Read more »

• American stabbed in Egypt exhibits breathtaking willful blindness

  doesn't make Egypt a dangerous place for Americans, Christopher Stone, the American scholar stabbed outside the US embassy in Cairo earlier this month, told Ahram Online. His attacker, Mahmoud Badr, a 30-year-old man from the Nile Delta's Kafr El-Sheikh, told 2:14 PM from Elder of Ziyon Read more »

• AL to submit Syria proposals to UNSC

  The Arab League (AL) said on Thursday it will submit to the UN Security Council (UNSC) a list of proposals for a June peace conference aimed at ending the conflict in Syria. The pan-Arab body's Syria committee, which met in Cairo on Thursday, agreed on "several 1:49 PM from GulfToday.ae Read more »