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MEDIA ALERT: Aftermath of Egypt soccer riots

February 2nd, 2012

PORT SAID, EGYPT -Riots left more than 70 people dead after a soccer match between local teams Al-Ahly and Al-Masry. The police and Egyptian military are being blamed for not preventing the violence.

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MEDIA ALERT: Leaked NATO report on Taliban-Pakistan relations

February 1st, 2012

The BBC has published excerpts from a secret NATO report which describe the Pakistan government’s support of the Taliban. Pakistan has dismissed the report.

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MEDIA ALERT: Parliamentary elections in Egypt

November 28th, 2011

CAIRO, EGYPT – Today marked the first time Egyptians would participate in one of many rounds of parliamentary elections since the end of former President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year reign.

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MEDIA ALERT: Egypt’s Coptic Christians and military clash

October 11th, 2011

CAIRO, EGYPT – At least 24 people are dead after an overnight fight between Egypt’s Coptic Christians and military police on Sunday. Egypt’s Interim Prime Minister Essam Sharaf calls for unity and peace. A curfew is now in full effect.

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MEDIA ALERT: Deadliest terrorist attack in Mogadishu

October 5th, 2011

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – A car bomb killed more than 70 people on Tuesday, October 4 in Somalia’s capital.

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MEDIA ALERT: al-Qaeda cleric al-Awlaki killed in Yemen

September 30th, 2011

YEMEN – Yemen Defense Ministry announced that Anwar al-Awlaki was killed with four others in Yemen today.

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