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Saturday, November 21 2009
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EGYPT Note: If no news appears, there is no news available for this country Egyptian soccer fans riot against Algeria CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.... Lebanese diva accused of singing racist song CAIRO (AP) -- A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.... Correction: Internet conference story SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) -- In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang. Yang said new Internet users in emerging markets "will need Web content, and want more content in their native language, and still others won't just be bound by language and barriers, but have other challenges such as reading, literacy." Yang did not use the word "liberty" in the passa... King Tut's tomb set for 5-year renovation project CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will undergo a five-year project to clean and restore the lavish wall paintings in the underground chambers of the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.... |
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