The Egyptian government's state of emergency should be lifted and a process of reconciliation must begin, President Barack Obama said Thursday of the turmoil in that country. img alt="People search through debris at Cairo's Rabaa al-Adawiya Square on Thursday, August 15, following a crackdown
Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have set fire to a government building in Giza, near the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The move comes a day after security forces broke up the Brotherhood's protest camps, leaving hundreds dead. Brotherhood members had been protesting for weeks about the army's