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Egypt's Brotherhood Party Wins 47% of Parliament Seats

The Muslim Brotherhood's party has won 47.18 percent of seats in the Egyptian parliament, the electoral commission announced on Saturday as it gave the final results from marathon polls.

The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 235 seats in the new People's Assembly, or 47.18 percent, committee head Abdel Moez Ibrahim said.

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Mubarak Not Guilty in Gas Sales to Israel

The lawyer defending Hosni Mubarak told the court on Saturday that there is not a shred of evidence linking the ousted Egyptian strongman to a controversial gas deal with Israel.

Farid al-Deeb said Egypt's spy agency negotiated the 2005 deal in line with international norms.

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Mubarak Not Undergoing Chemotherapy

Hosni Mubarak's doctor said the former Egyptian president is not undergoing chemotherapy for cancer but suffers from weak muscles and limited mobility, in a rare interview published Wednesday.

"We are still running tests to ascertain that he does not have this disease (cancer). It is still not 100 percent that he has it and he has not undergone any chemical treatment," oncologist Yasser Abdel Kader told the government daily al-Ahram.

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Nominates Parliament Speaker

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, which won a crushing victory in Egyptian legislative elections, on Monday nominated its secretary general to head the new parliament.

"We have decided to nominate Saad al-Katatni as the next speaker of the People's Assembly (parliament's lower house)," FJP chief Mohammed Mursi told a news conference.

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Egypt Military Ruler in Libya to Boost Ties

Egypt's military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi arrived in Libya on Monday on a visit to boost ties between the two neighbors whose longtime autocratic leaders were toppled last year, an Agence France Presse photographer said.

The trip marks Tantawi's first state visit since the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which he heads took over following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak last February after an 18-day popular revolt.

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ElBaradei Won’t Run for Egypt Presidency for Lack of Democracy

The ex-head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Nobel laureate Mohammed ElBaradei said on Saturday he would not run for the Egyptian presidency, saying there is still no real democracy in the country.

"My conscience does not allow me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless there is real democracy," ElBaradei said in a statement received by Agence France Presse.

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Wants 'Balanced' Ties with U.S.

The head of the political arm of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday hailed U.S.-Egyptian ties during talks with the U.S. State Department's number two, but also said they must be "balanced."

The meeting with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns at the Cairo headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) came as marathon elections that propelled Islamists to Egypt's center stage wrapped up.

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3 Dead as Egypt Troops Clash with Bedouin in Suez

Clashes between Egyptian troops and Bedouin in the Suez district east of Cairo killed three people on Wednesday as military police tried to evict the Bedouin from state-owned land, security sources said.

An officer, a conscript and a Bedouin died in a gunfight which erupted at dawn in the town of Janifah near the southern edge of the Suez Canal, the sources said.

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Egypt Activists Vow no Israeli Pilgrimage to Tomb

Egyptian Islamists and other activists vowed Wednesday to prevent Israelis from making an annual pilgrimage to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta.

Pilgrimage opponents have decided to stage protests on roads leading to the tomb of Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira in the village of Daymouta, 180 kilometers (112 miles) north of Cairo, said Gamal Heshmat of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group which is the country's best organized political movement.

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Burns to Meet with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

The U.S. State Department's number two was to meet Wednesday with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood's party after it claimed a crushing victory in landmark post-revolution parliamentary elections.

William Burns "will meet leaders of the Freedom and Justice Party at their headquarters in Cairo," FJP spokesman Ahmed Sobea told Agence France Presse.

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