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...first step of the Egypt-brokered truce is elementary: They agreed, as of 6 a.m. Thursday, to stop shooting at each other. If that undertaking holds, Israel in several days will reopen the crossings into Gaza. This will effectively end the economic siege imposed a year ago after Hamas seized control of Gaza from the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas. The economic relief will not come a moment too soon: On Thursday, TIME witnessed a long row of men standing shoulder to shoulder in the Gaza surf, as if gathered for prayer. One or two men would wade furiously...
...scope. Lots of numbers and percentages are bandied about but with very little historical context or explanation. Why, for example, do Russians prefer powerful leaders over straight-up democracies? Why do Tanzanians like President Bush so much? Oh, and why does Turkey dislike America so much? More so than Egypt or Pakistan or Indonesia, the other majority Muslim nations on the list, Turkey holds an abysmally low opinion of the United States. Just 12% see America in a favorable light, and 70% of Turks surveyed see it as an enemy. That's fascinating. Please, Pew - tell...
Prime Minister of Egypt from 1978 to 1980, Mustafa Khalil was instrumental in the negotiations between Israel and Egypt at Camp David that ultimately resulted in a peace accord in 1979, the first such agreement between Israel and an Arab nation. A government official for more than 50 years, Khalil paid a visit to Jerusalem in 1977, which set in motion the later meetings in the U.S. orchestrated by President Jimmy Carter. Following the historic peace process, Khalil stayed politically active until last fall, when he retired from his role as deputy chairman of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party...
...Egypt Lost Pyramid Unearthed...
...pump: The announcement, in mid-February, coincided with the semifinal of Africa's huge soccer tournament, the Nations Cup, in which Cameroon defeated the host country, Ghana. Cameroonians poured into the streets to celebrate the victory. Amid the raucous partying and the suspense over the impending showdown against Egypt in the tournament final, few noticed that the government had - without a word of discussion on television or in local newspapers - raised gas prices by about 20 cents a gallon. It was only in the depressing wake of Cameroon's loss to Egypt that the full impact of the gas price...