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e Sinai Peninsula for more than thirty years. The Arab spring, however, has jeopardized that security stability. The future course of the regime in Cairo is uncertain. The military regime for now seems content maintaining the peace treaty with Israel. But Jerusalem wonders how long the military regim

llison May 7, 2014 -- The rapid slide from lawlessness to violence that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Slovyansk, and Odessa in the past week sounds alarms that should be heard more clearly in Western capitals. The strategy Washington and the Europe

d it will not allow any tampering with the brigades' armament under any circumstances," said the Hamas deputy leader. Abu Marzouk, who is based in Cairo, said he made a request to the Egyptian security services to permit him entry into Gaza to facilitate the deal, describing Hamas-Egypt relations as

h as the Soviet-era Izvestiya or Pravda, to see the kind of popular pressure Putin has placed himself under: "Putin is a coward. Where is the army? Donetsk is up in flames and we are still idling by the border? What is this lice-ridden russophobe waiting for?" "Were Putin to give up on Ukraine he woul

s and Internet connections, anyone now can change the conversation" anywhere. It's true. The film resonates with those who gathered in squares from Cairo to Caracas to Kiev, added the film's producer, Karim Amer, because it captures an increasingly universal phenomenon: average people uniting and de

cow's own terms. The people of the Crimean peninsula were hardly under threat by "fascist gangs" from EFTA00705918 Kiev. In the east, cities like Donetsk and Kharkov had also been quiet, though that may already be changing. That's the advantage of Putin's state- controlled television and his pocket le

nd Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine. EFTA00684068 NYT Egypt's Enduring Passion for Soccer Alaa Al Aswany _ April 16, 2014 -- Cairo — Egyptians are attached to soccer the way the French are to wine. It's well-nigh impossible to find an Egyptian who is not a fan. When major match

nd lingering problems, such as the open wound in Palestine and the tensions in North Korea, Syria continues to disintegrate, Ukraine is shaken from Donetsk to Crimea, and serious tensions are rising between China and its neighbours in the East and South China Seas. More globally, the most recent report