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Five blasts in Egypt's Alexandria wound 10-interior ministry

Suspected Islamist militants bombed three police stations in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Feb. 10, wounding 10 people, and also targetted two other locations, an interior ministry official said. 

Nobody was injured in the two other blasts in the eastern part of the city, said Major General Amin Ezz al-Din, assistant interior minister for Alexandria. 

Two protesters killed on anniversary of Egypt uprising as tension grows

Two protesters were killed in Egypt and a bomb wounded two policemen on Jan. 25, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, security sources said.
   
The anniversary is a test of whether Islamists and liberal activists facing one of Egypt's toughest security crackdowns have the resolve to challenge the U.S.-backed government once again.

'Islamist' protester killed in clash with Egypt police: officials

An "Islamist" protester was killed in clashes with police in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Jan. 25, officials said, as the country marked the fraught anniversary of its 2011 popular uprising.
      
Police officials said the protester shot at police during an Islamist demonstration. Police returned fire and killed him, they said.

The pope’s visit and what divides Christians East and West

By the time this article is published, Pope Francis will have left Turkey after having spent a busy weekend both as a head of state and as the head of the “Christian Church of the West,” one of two Greek Orthodox bishops, who briefed us on the pope’s visit to Turkey, explained to us.

Five facts you don’t know about Turkish coffee

As Hürriyet writer and gourmet Mehmet Yaşin asked recently, where can we put Turkish coffee in the wider coffee world? How come people don’t desire it as much as they desire Italian, American, French coffees? Is it because of their advertisements or is it because of its taste? The answers might be in five facts that you probably don’t know.

Antic: Chetnik symbols should be at parade

BELGRADE - Serbian president's adviser Oliver Antic has said that a military parade is an appropriate way to honour all the victims of the anti-fascist struggle, regardless of their ideology.

Justice demands that Chetnik symbols also be present at the parade, because they had a part in the victory against fascism, he told the daily Danas.

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