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Egypt: El-Sissi wins election by landslide

CAIRO (AP) — With nearly all votes counted, Egypt's former military chief has won a crushing victory over his sole opponent with more than 92 percent of the votes, according to results announced by his campaign early Thursday. The campaign of retired field marshal Abdel-Fattah...

Egypt extends election voting by one day

Egypt extended on Tuesday polling in the country for a third day, in a move that was met with objections from rival presidential runners Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabahi. The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission’s decision came a day after authorities declared Tuesday a...

Egypt officials make big push to get vote out for Sisi

(Reuters) - The Egyptian government launched a determined effort to get out the vote on Tuesday after lower than expected turnout in a presidential election threatened to undermine the credibility of the frontrunner, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. After Sisi called for...

Sisi closes on presidency on final day of Egypt vote

(Reuters) - Former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt's next president, with supporters seeing him as the man who can pull the Arab world's most populous nation back from the brink. Since the overthrow...