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An Egyptian man reads a newspaper at a cafe in the Zeitun neighbourhood of Cairo. Egypt's Islamists claimed Wednesday they were headed for victory in the opening phase of the country's first post-revolution election after two days of peaceful polling that won international plaudits.

Bulletin: Egypt Islamists claim lead in first-phase vote count

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Egyptian election officials count ballots. Egypt awaited results on Wednesday from its peaceful and largely orderly first post-revolution elections which are expected to show moderate Islamists dominating the country's new political landscape.

Bulletin: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood ahead in vote count: press

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Algerian policemen stand guard in Algeirs,2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up to avoid arrest in the eastern Algerian town of Bouhamza, causing no other casualties

Bulletin: Suicide bomber blows self up in Algeria

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Islamist fighters with the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group perform military drills on the outskirts of Mogadishu in February 2011. Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents in Somalia have abducted and detained a newly appointed woman minister while she was on her way to take up office, officials and witnesses told AFP.

Bulletin: Somali women's minister abducted by Islamists

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Article: Nigeria: suspected islamist attack kills 13

Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a police station in northeast...

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A television salesman watches images featuring news of Osama bin Laden's death. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has said that Bin Laden, who was killed by US forces in Pakistan, did not represent Islam and said the United States should pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bulletin: 'Islam is not Bin Laden', say Egypt Muslim Brothers

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Egypt have rearrested Mohammed al-Zawahiri, brother of Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri, just days after he was freed under an amnesty for political prisoners, security officials said.

Bulletin: Egypt rearrests brother of Al-Qaeda number two

Egypt has rearrested Mohammed al-Zawahiri, brother of Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri,...

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Internally displaced women line up to receive food for their children.

Article: Mogadishu's newly-displaced getting desperate

Muna Isse, a single mother of five, lives with her family in a newly-erected makeshift...

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Article: Nigerian Islamist group slaughtered police officers like animals

"The Nigeria Police Force was stunned at the terrible murder, in cold blood, of her...

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Militiamen fighting the government outside Mogadishu (photo:EPA/ ABUKAR ALBADRI)

Article: Somalia's Shabaab join Al-Qaeda's global jihad

Somalia's al-Shabaab islamists have officially declared its alignment with Al-Qaeda...

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Bulletin: Egypt Islamists claim lead in first-phase vote count

Bulletin: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood ahead in vote count: press

Bulletin: Suicide bomber blows self up in Algeria

Bulletin: Somali women's minister abducted by Islamists

Article: Nigeria: suspected islamist attack kills 13

Bulletin: 'Islam is not Bin Laden', say Egypt Muslim Brothers

Bulletin: Egypt rearrests brother of Al-Qaeda number two

Article: Mogadishu's newly-displaced getting desperate

Article: Nigerian Islamist group slaughtered police officers like animals

Article: Somalia's Shabaab join Al-Qaeda's global jihad

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