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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brother or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united in euphoria when Hosni Mubarak fell 15 months ago, first-round results indicated on Friday. With most votes counted, the Muslim Brotherhood said its candidate Mohamed Mursi had topped this week's polls and would compete in next month ...

CAIRO – Early results from the initial round of Egypt’s first-ever contested presidential election point to a run-off that will pit the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate against a former prime minister appointed during the last day of President Hosni Mubarak’s reign. Votes tallied from Wednesday and...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's revolutionaries did not take to the streets to replace Hosni Mubarak with another military strongman or to put an Islamist ideologue in charge, but that is the choice they woke up to after a first-round vote for the presidency. The youths who put national pride before religion when they protested against Mubarak's autocratic rule last year have increasingly despaired ...

Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brotherhood candidate or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united in euphoria when Hosni Mubarak fell 15 months ago, first-round results indicated on Friday.

Cairo, May 26 : Egyptians, who reveled in the falling of Hosni Mubarak’s regime 15 months ago, will now have to settle for either a veteran of the ousted autocratic regime or a Muslim Brother, the first-round results of a presidential run-off showed on Friday.

Egypt's first free presidential election could be heading for a contest between an Islamist candidate and a former air force chief who was a leading member of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's last government.

A contest between Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik would decide whether the nation is to be ruled by political Islamists or the secularists who defined Mubarak's police state. CAIRO — Egypt's two most polarizing presidential candidates appeared headed for a runoff election next month that will decide whether the nation will be ruled by an ascendant political Islam or return to the secularist ...

CAIRO, 30 November 2004 — When it comes to dust and din, perhaps no city on the planet can match Cairo, a desert-bound megalopolis clinging to the Nile whose 17 million people get by with only a few square feet of green space each.

Enthusiasm has given way to apathy since presidential candidates whose charisma or progressive appeals generated excitement with voters were eliminated.

'Now Egyptians will have to choose between the revolution and the counter-revolution. The next vote will be equivalent to holding a referendum on the revolution,' said Mohamed Beltagy, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood's party