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Tahrir Square attacked ahead of Cairo-wide constitution protests - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
"Armed assailants attacked protesters camping in Tahrir Square in the early hours of Tuesday morning, leaving 16 injured. The attack comes just ahead of demonstrations planned to take place across Cairo to press for the cancellation or postponement of Egypt’s constitutional referendum set for Saturday. The assailants entered the square from the Abdel-Moneim Riyad Street and Qasr Al Nil openings and proceeded to shoot protesters with pellet guns and throw Molotov cocktails at them."
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Gunmen kill intelligence deputy in south Yemen: Security
"Unidentified assailants shot dead the deputy head of intelligence in the southeastern Yemeni city of Mukalla on Tuesday, a security official said. Colonel Ahmed al-Ramada, deputy chief of political security in the city, was killed on his way to work, the official told AFP, adding that al-Qaeda could have been behind the attack. Mukalla, located on the Gulf of Aden, is the main city of the eastern province of Hadramawt, where al-Qaeda militants are active."
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Why Bahrain’s rulers must change course - FT.com
"Bahrain’s al-Khalifas are a fortunate royal family. When their own version of the Arab awakening struck their little island nation last year, their big brothers in Saudi Arabia marched in to protect them and warned western allies to stay away. But they’re also fortunate because they face a political opposition that has been largely reasonable in both its actions and its demands."
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Bloomberg Weighs Making a Run for Financial Times - NYTimes.com
"Not long ago, The Financial Times would have been the crown jewel of any media company, instantly conferring prestige and influence on its owner. Now, given the likely bidders, one of the world’s most respected and distinctive financial newspapers could end up as a trophy to help sell more computer terminals. "
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Why Amazon Is One Of The Most Successful Companies In The World - Business Insider
"Way back in the ancient days of the 1990s, a few thousand ecommerce startups were vying to take over the world. One of them, Amazon, grabbed an early lead. And it has maintained that lead right through to today. In the ~15 years since it sold its first book, Amazon has become a global ecommerce colossus, with more than $50 billion in revenue."
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Morsi scraps Egyptian tax increases - FT.com
"Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s Islamist president, has scrapped tax increases hours after they were announced, in an apparent bid to woo the electorate ahead of Saturday’s controversial referendum on a new constitution. An overnight statement on the president’s official Facebook page said he “does not accept that the Egyptian citizen carries any extra burdens without consent”."
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WWF drones raise serious questions for international security - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
"In most situations, it would be quite inappropriate to consider WWF and Blackwater alongside one another for the purpose of serious inquiry. However, in this case, it is not a stretch to say that both the WWF drone surveillance program me and Blackwater security operations in Iraq represent real-world examples of the erosion of internal and external state security. "
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Report: Obama will travel to Israel
"An assistant to Obama's foreign policy adviser Samantha Power told a delegation that Obama will be headed over to Israel, and one other country in the region to be decided. Dates not identified. "
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