Lawyers trail physicians in pay leads news summary including efforts to lower fines, Egyptian court sentences blogger and jailed sect leader tries to speak.

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Britain's consideration of a written constitution heads news summary that includes possible change in California's traffic courts and apology to lawyers from Egypt's president and apology from lawyers to Hollywood executives.

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NEW YORK — A federal judge on Friday refused to toss out terrorism charges facing an Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Great Britain and said she’ll decide during a trial next year whether government references to al-Qaida being led by ...

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CAIRO — The pyramid rose out of the sand before me, its smooth stone walls crumbling around the edges, but still majestic and mountainous. As I hiked around it, studying the etched hieroglyphs and pausing to pick up a small ...

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CAIRO — The tombs of seven men, including several who served King Tutankhamen and his father, the pharaoh Akhenaten, were opened to tourists on Monday after restoration. Egypt’s minister of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, told reporters that the tombs in the ...

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CAIRO — U.S. tour operators and Egyptian officials are hoping to convince hesitant international travelers that Egypt is now safe and stable enough to resume large-scale tourism. A delegation of representatives from the U.S. tourism industry visited the country over ...

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More than 2 billion people across the globe have Internet access and there are some 5 billion mobile-phone subscriptions, according to the 2010 Human Rights Report released this month by the U.S. Department of State. As we saw in Tunisia ...

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NEW YORK — News that Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak resigned sent stocks modestly higher around the world Friday. Investors were waiting to see if the unrest in Egypt might still spread to other countries. Markets had been lower earlier Friday ...

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CAIRO — Credit Agricole says Egypt’s ongoing political crisis is costing the country at least $310 million per day. In a report released Friday, the investment bank said it was revising down its forecast for Egypt’s economic growth to 3.7 ...

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