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Democracy, Islam and Egypt's Economy
Islamic parties won 60% in Egypt's recent elections. What will that mean for the ruling military, Israel, and democracy? Will that distract from economic concerns?
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe Muslim Brotherhood and ultra-conservative Salafists won 60 percent of the vote in Egypt's recent elections. What will that mean for the ruling military, relations with Israel, and for democracy? Are those issues distractions from the economic concerns of the mass of Egyptians? Also, demonstrations over the election in Russia continue, and Occupy Wall Street occupies foreclosed homes.
Banner image: A woman wearing a full Islamic veil walks past Egyptian police and soldiers outside a polling station on the second day of the run-off election in Cairo on December 6, 2011. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesDemonstrations over Election in Russia Continue
For the second night in a row, demonstrators in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities protested recent elections allegedly rigged in favor of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party. Secretary of State Clinton repeated her charge that the voting was neither free nor fair.
Read the story8 minDemocracy, Islam and Egypt's Economy
In Egypt's recent elections, the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote and the ultra-conservative Salafists got 24 percent. More secular parties got just 13 percent. It may take as much as a year to determine how strong a parliament will be formed. Should Israel and Western countries be concerned?
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It's hardly a mass movement yet, but the latest version of Occupy Wall Street could have a major impact. In New York, Miami and other cities today, economic protesters from the Occupy movement joined forces with a group called Take Back the Land . Is it squatting or liberation? Matt Sledge reports for the Huffington Post .
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