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TEMPLATE BREAKING NEWS – Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi elected as President of Egypt

24 Sunday Jun 2012

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Sixteen months after the uprising in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that ousted Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi is elected President of Egypt. He beat his rival former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq by almost a million votes.

The Higher Presidential Election Commission said Mursi had won 51.73% of the vote, to beat Shafiq,  The head of the panel of judges, Farouq Sultan, said it had upheld some of the 466 complaints by the candidates, but that the election result still stood.

Mursi, an American educated University Professor, will be President for four years in the Arab World’s most populous Muslim country. His powers as President are restricted though, after the military supended parliament where elections had awarded the Muslim Brotherhood 47 percent of votes cast.

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Egypt’s Presidential Election Result to be Delayed

20 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Egypt’s state Television has said that there will be a delay in announcing the outcome of the country’s Presidential elections.

The results of the second stage of the elections were expected on Thursday.

However, the Supreme Elections Commission said it was still reviewing complaints from the main candidates, Ahmed Shafiq, the former PM of the last President of Egypt, and Mohamed Morsi, from the Muslim Brotherhood.

And in a separate development, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been moved from prison to an army hospital in Cairo, where he remains in a critical condition. He is said to have had a series of strokes and to be on a life support machine. Reports that he was “clinically dead” have been denied. But there has been no official statement.

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Pakistan Supreme Court disqualifies Prime Minister

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has disqualified the country’s Prime Minister from holding office.

Yousuf Raza Gilani had been convicted of contempt of court two months ago.

Now the Supreme Court ruled he had “ceased to be the prime minister of Pakistan”.

When the Supreme Court convicted Mr Gilani of failing to pursue corruption charges against President Asif Ali Zardari in April,  he was only given a token sentence and spared a jail term.

Today’s court ruling disqualifies him from office and from parliament.

“Since no appeal was filed [against the 26 April conviction]… therefore Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani stands disqualified as a member of the Majlis-e-Shoora [parliament],” Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry told a packed courtroom.

He added: “He has also ceased to be the prime minister of Pakistan… the office of the prime minister stands vacant.”

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418th British Soldier to Fall was ‘protecting colleagues’

14 Thursday Jun 2012

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The 418th soldier to die in Afghanistan has been named as L/Cpl James Ashworth, 23, from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, from Kettering, Northamptonshire.

His commanding officer said L/Cpl Ashworth had died trying to protect his colleagues.

Capt Mike Dobbin, commander of Reconnaissance Platoon, Nijmegen Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, said:

“He was killed while fighting his way through compounds; leading his fire team from the front, whilst trying to protect his men and he showed extraordinary courage to close on a determined enemy. His professionalism under pressure and ability to remain calm in what was a chaotic situation is testament to his character.

“L/Cpl Ashworth was a pleasure to command and I will sorely miss his calming influence on the battlefield. Softly spoken, he stepped up to every task thrown in his direction.