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15 weeks 1 day ago - Egypt

General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, will visit Egypt later this week in a "long-planned" visit that will almost assuredly include a discussion of Americans being prosecuted by the government, CNN has reported.

Nineteen Americans were indicted by judicial prosecutors earlier this week for working for unlicensed pro-democracy groups that the government says were favouring certain political ideologies. At least six of the Americans are currently in Cairo and banned from traveling.

A spokesman for Dempsey declined to comment on whether there were plans to take the Americans out of Egypt.

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18 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the chief of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, has arrived in Libya on his first official diplomatic visit to any country since ex-President Hosni Mubarak stepped down on February 11. 

Tantawi was accompanied by Egypt's economic, electricity and foreign ministers and was met with a protest by Libyans demanding Egypt seize and return Libyan assets and hand over former Libyan regime officials.

Egyptian businessmen have launched a small campaign urging Tantawi to run for president, though the military has denied ambitions for political power.  

Here's Tantawi meeting with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of Libya's National Transitional Council, as he arrived today in Tripoli:

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26 weeks 3 days ago - Egypt

Al Jazeera online producer Asad Hashim sent through this image of opposition figure Ayman Nour, a former presidential candidate and head of the Ghad Party, during a visit to Tahrir Square:

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