Maggie Michael

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Animal videos shown at Egypt’s Al-Jazeera trial

Animal videos shown at Egypt’s Al-Jazeera trial

Maggie Michael · April 10, 2014 4:47 pm

FILE - In this March 5, 2011 file photo, an anti-government rebel sits with an anti-aircraft weapon in front an oil refinery, after the capture of the oil town of Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya. The official Libyan news agency said Sunday, April 6, 2014 that the country's main militia in the east has agreed to hand back control of four oil terminals it captured and shut down last summer in its demand for a share in oil revenues. The shutdown has cost Libya millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

In Libya, politicians in fear of powerful militias

Maggie Michael · April 10, 2014 6:46 am

Egypt arrests a top aide to al-Qaida chief

Egypt arrests a top aide to al-Qaida chief

Maggie Michael · April 7, 2014 7:12 pm

Egyptian court sentences nearly 530 to death

Maggie Michael · March 24, 2014 4:42 pm

Libya’s guns free-for-all fuels region’s turmoil

Maggie Michael · March 22, 2014 2:58 pm

As ex-PM leaves, Libya risks inter-region conflict

Maggie Michael · March 12, 2014 4:40 pm

Libyan prime minister ousted by parliament

Libyan prime minister ousted by parliament

Maggie Michael · March 11, 2014 9:25 pm

Libya says its forces now near oil tanker

Libya says its forces now near oil tanker

Maggie Michael · March 9, 2014 9:35 pm

This image posted on the official Facebook account of Egypt's military spokesman shows Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi addressing cadets at a military academy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. He gave his strongest indication yet that he intends to enter presidential elections, saying in the speech that he "can't turn his back" if Egyptians want him to run. (AP Photo/Egypt military spokesman via Facebook)

Egypt: El-Sissi gives sign of presidential run

Maggie Michael · March 4, 2014 6:23 pm

This image made from undated video broadcast on Egyptian State Television on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 shows a device that the Egyptian army claims will detect and cure AIDS and Hepatitis. Egypt's military is facing embarrassment after unveiling a so-called "miraculous" invention of a set of devices that allegedly detect and cure AIDS, Hepatitis and other viruses. The army's carefully managed image as protector of the nation has suffered after many experts dismissed the claims, saying they aren't technically sound. (AP Photo via AP video)

Egypt army ‘AIDS detector’ instead finds ridicule

Maggie Michael · February 27, 2014 11:55 pm

In this Nov. 24, 2013 photo, Ibrahim Mehlib, center, tours a government housing project in Ismailiya, Egypt. Egypt's interim president has chosen as prime minister a construction magnate from the era of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Adly Mansour on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 named Mehlib, who had for more than a decade led Egypt's biggest construction company, Arab Contractors, to replace Hazem el-Beblawi, who resigned on Monday.(AP Photo/Khaled Kandil)

Egypt names a new premier ahead of key vote

Maggie Michael · February 25, 2014 4:21 pm

Andrew Greste, a brother of Australian journalist Peter Greste, waits with Australian diplomats outside court as his brother and 19 other Al-Jazeera employees went on trial accused of membership in a terrorist organization and also for aiding it in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. A rights group on Thursday denounced Egypt's stand on freedom of expression as 20 employees of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network went on trial accused of membership in a terrorist organization and also for aiding it. (AP Photo/El Shorouk newspaper, Roger Anis) EGYPT OUT

Egypt: Al-Jazeera journalists plead not guilty

Maggie Michael · February 20, 2014 8:22 pm