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Egypt's leading opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei speaks to a small group of journalists including The Associated Press at his house in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. El Baradei said a deeply polarized Egypt needs political consensus to tackle a burning economic crisis and deal with an angry population that has lost hope in its political elite. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

ElBaradei: Egypt leader will need opposition help

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May 1, 2013 4:00 am

In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, meets with Republican Sen. John McCain, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Morsi met with McCain in Cairo on Wednesday, for a visit expected to last three days. The meeting comes after the Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that the Egyptian President made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt’s Morsi tries to defuse flap over Jews slur

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January 16, 2013 5:00 am

RETRANSMISSION FOR ALTERNATIVE CROP - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi swears in newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. Egypt's Islamist president ordered his former defense minister and chief of staff to retire on Sunday and canceled the military-declared constitutional amendments that gave top generals wide powers. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt’s president seizes powers back from military

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August 12, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 7, 2012 file photograph, relatives of an Egyptian soldier mourn during the funeral of one of 16 soldiers killed in an attack over the weekend by suspected militants in Sinai in Cairo, Egypt. After decades of neglect and with the collapse of government authority the past 18 months, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has become fertile ground for Islamic extremists. Militant groups have taken root, carrying out attacks against neighboring Israel and now turning their guns against Egypt's military as they vow to set up an Islamic state. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt fires intelligence chief over Sinai attack

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August 8, 2012 4:00 am