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McCain threatens to end aid to Egypt

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, center right, waves to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's official news agency says that the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." In a statement carried on MEAN Saturday, the Supreme Judicial Council says they regret the declarations President Mohammed Morsi issued Thursday.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt reformist warns of turmoil from Morsi decree

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo on Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mohammed Morsi clashed across Egypt, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (Associated Press)

A look at powers decreed by Egypt’s president

Associated Press

Protesters storm an office of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice party in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, on Nov. 23, 2012, and set fires. State TV says Morsi opponents also set fire to his party's offices in the Suez Canal cities of Suez, Port Said and Ismailia. Opponents and supporters of Morsi clashed across Egypt, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (Associated Press/Amira Mortada, El Shorouk Newspaper)

Clashes erupt across Egypt over Morsi’s new powers

By Aya Batrawy and Maggie Michael - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egypt’s Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Thursday granted himself far-reaching powers, prompting critics to call him the new “pharaoh.” A day earlier, he achieved a cease-fire to end eight days of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians. (Associated Press)

Muslim Brotherhood head denounces cease-fire, as Morsi claims more power in Egypt

By combined dispatches

An Israeli soldier sleeps atop an armored medical vehicle as they form a convoy to be driven out of southern Israel, near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israelis cautious as a cease-fire with Hamas takes hold

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

A house in Gaza City was turned to rubble by an Israeli airstrike Tuesday. Efforts to end the week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in top diplomats, including appeals from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (Associated Press)

Israel-Hamas fighting continues

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

Smoke rises Monday after an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Egypt has been mediating indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials. (Associated Press)

Cease-fire urged as Gaza explodes

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egyptian government heading toward autocracy, an opposition leader says

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

An Egyptian looks through books and school bags that were strewn along the tracks at the scene where a speeding train crashed into a bus carrying children to their kindergarten, killing at least 47, officials said, near Assiut in southern Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. The bus was carrying more than 50 children between 4 and 6 years old when it was hit by a train near al-Mandara village in Manfaloot district in the province of Assiut, a security official said, adding that it appears that the railroad crossing was not closed as the train sped toward it. (AP Photo/Mamdouh Thabet)

Egypt: Train hits school bus; 49 children killed

By Mamdouh Thabet - Associated Press

Illustration Morsi by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

PIPES AND FARAHAT: Morsi could discredit Muslim Brotherhood rule

By Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat

Egyptians relax outside a Cairo cafe. Crowds often fill cafes and shops that stay open late and the government is facing a backlash over forcing stores and restaurants to close earlier. Officials say the nation has to save electricity, but they also seem intent on taming a population they see as unruly. (Associated Press)

Egyptian night owls squawk at curfew

By Maggie Fick - Associated Press

** FILE ** Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egypt protesters scuffle after chants anger some

Associated Press

Rafah residents burned tires in August to protest a deadly attack. Egypt is struggling to rein in rampant lawlessness and uproot Islamic militants who have attacked military troops and neighboring Israel. (Associated Press)

Cairo, Bedouin in power struggle

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks Sept. 25, 2012, at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. (Associated Press)

Morsi: Won’t rest until Syrian war ends

By Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

** FILE ** Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egypt’s president wants more independence from U.S.

Associated Press

Thousands of supporters raise a poster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi as they celebrate in Cairo’s Tahrir Square late Sunday after Mr. Morsi retired the defense minister and chief of staff without the military’s objection. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama coddles Twin Towers bomber

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

An Egyptian protester throws back a tear gas canister toward riot police Sept. 14, 2012, behind cement blocks that are used to close the street leading to the U.S. Embassy during clashes in Cairo as anger spread across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (Associated Press)

Anti-film protests spread across Muslim world

By Aya Batrawy and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Egyptian protesters carry their national flag and a flag with Arabic that reads "No God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet," and chant anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Sept. 12, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's prophet Muhammad. (Associated Press)

Despite deaths in Libya, Egypt posing bigger problem for Obama

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times