The company's selection of chicken and hearty sides is so popular that Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip, where imported goods and travel remain restricted, are willing to pay a team of smugglers to run KFC orders through underground tunnels, usually waiting four or more hours to see their orders fulfilled.
In today's tour of state-run propaganda, Iran's propaganda outlet suddenly cares about propaganda, Egyptian state media enters the presidential race and China's People's Daily files for an IPO.
They used to be the biggest bogeyman in town, but in the run-up to Egypt's first presidential elections, the Muslim Brotherhood is looking like the safest bet to lead the turbulent country.
From Cubans hawking cigar products to Egypt's corrupting state media to the vaunted penmanship of North Korea's "dear respected leader," today's propaganda report keeps you informed on the latest in state-sponsored agitprop. We begin in Iran!
Egypt set bail for seven detained American NGO workers, allowing them to slip out the country and save itself that $1.55 billion in aid the U.S. was threatening to cut.
After more than a month of being detained by authorities, Sam LaHood will be allowed to leave Egypt's borders. We're guessing he's going to head straight home, to the old U.S. of A.
Egyptian officials and the news outlets got excited this morning with the arrest of man they thought was a top al-Qaeda leader, but it turns out that even though they had the wrong guy, they had reason to hold him anyway.
The Egyptian prime minister says the government's going ahead with prosecutions against American and other foreign and local NGO workers, despite threats from the U.S. government that it stands to lose $1.3 billion in annual military aid and $250 million in economic aid from the United States.
Despite threats from Congress to withdraw $1.55 billion in aid, Egypt moves ahead on a shady criminal action against foreign non-profit workers. The son of the U.S. Transportation Secretary is among them.
There's a happy (or at least safe) ending to the story this morning of two American women along with their guide being kidnapped at gunpoint in Egypt.
Two American tourists have been kidnapped in Egypt, along with their guide, when they were held up in their minivan near a Red Sea resort on Friday.
If anything can bring Egyptian soccer rivals together, it's their shared belief that their government is incompetent.
Officials now report 73 people died in the riot, and that the army had to send helicopters to evacuate the players.
It looks like the U.S. embassy in Cairo saw the writing on the wall last week when American N.G.O. workers were stopped from leaving the country, and will now open its doors for workers to hide out for fear of a government crackdown.
The son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood got stopped when he tried to board a plane out of Cairo, apparently because Egyptian authorities are still trying to decide whether a non-governmental organization he runs there broke the law.
There are some great photos coming out of Egypt Wednesday, the one year anniversary of the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak as thousands gathered in Tahrir to mark the anniversary and advocate more political reform.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians swarmed Tahrir Square on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of protests that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, but the demonstrations show that the revolution is far from over.
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's military ruling council, announced the army will lift the state's emergency law, but reserved the right to use it in instances of "thuggery," thereby inspiring anything but confidence among critics of military rule.
The would-be reformer who headed the UN's nuclear monitoring program says the military junta in Egypt is running the country just like in the bad old days.
Prosecutors in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday demanded the death penalty for the ex-head of state and five others for allegedly shooting protesters during the February uprising in 2011.
Police in Egypt raided 17 NGO offices on Thursday, including those of two U.S.-based organizations that apparently made the list because of a Mubarack-era ban on foreign interference in local politics.
Woman today in Egypt won a right that they obviously should have had all along after an Egyptian court banned the administration of "virginity tests" on female prisoners, reports MSNBC and CNN.
Angered by the indelible images of soldiers beating, stripping, and abusing female protesters, thousands of women marched on Cairo's streets Tuesday night in a beautiful and inspiring show of solidarity in Egypt.
Confirming that he probably shouldn't be in power, Gen. Abdel Moneim Kato, a military adviser in the government's Morale Affairs Department said yesterday that protesters "deserve to be thrown into Hitler's ovens."
Hundreds of troops fired at Occupy Cabinet protesters in Tahrir Square early Monday, killing at least three and bringing the four-day death toll to at least 14--which the ruling military council says is for the good of the state.
As Egypt's first free elections in more than a generation continue, police cracked down viciously on protesters in Cairo.
It's no mystery that the uprising that started in downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Square almost exactly three months ago was inspired in part by the revolution that began in Tahrir Square that began on January 25th.
Egypt's three-week long sit in against military rule, known as "Occupy Cabinet" is taking a terrifying turn as the ruling military junta has resorted to throwing rocks and using violence against this set of "Occupiers".
Egypt's second of three rounds of parliamentary elections began today, and two of the big talking points during this election are booze and beachwear -- at least according to CNN's report.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group after its parliamentary elections, is rebuffing the military's attempts to control how the nation's constitution is written, as The New York Times reports.
It's only the first stages of a long election process, but Egypt's conservative Islamic parties appear set to take control of the country's new post-revolution Parliament.
Despite long lines and confusing rules, Egyptians have turned out in droves to vote in the country's first elections since the end of Hosni Mubarak's decades-old regime.
Former Mubarak-era prime minister Kamal al-Ganzouri accepts the same post and agrees to form an interim cabinet as protests continue
What does an American student detained in Cairo tell his mom during that "one call home" arrested folks always get? He tells her that he's innocent, of course.
Less than two hours after a truce between protesters and police was called, rocks and tear gas began flying again in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The heavy reliance on tear gas, pepper spray, and other "safe" crowd control measures from Oakland to Cairo is raising new concerns about just how much damage police and armies are doing to unarmed citizens.
The ruling military council in Egypt has accepted the resignation of the country's entire cabinet in the face of demonstrations that have increased in fervor over the last four days, and offered to end its rule by July, 2012.
The military in Egypt has been hard pressed to deal effectively with ongoing protests there, and has taken to laying the blame on foreign agitators, a case made stronger with the arrest of three American demonstrators.
After months of criticism for its perceived ineffectiveness and a weekend of lethal protests, Egypt's cabinet offered its resignation to the ruling army council yesterday, and the council has accepted it today, Al Jazeera reports.
Reports say as many as 33 people have been killed and more the 1,500 injured in violent clashes between police as government protests reignited in Cairo's Tahrir Square over the weekend.
Horrifying video and images are emerging of Egyptian security forces beating protesters in Cairo, as reports of military units firing into the crowds continue to spread.
Police and protesters are doing battle in Cairo, as large demonstrations of Islamist political factions call for democratic reform and the end of post-Mubarak military rule.
If he had, the Egyptian dictator might have noticed the simmering rage that eventually drove him from power.
It started with activists looking to the Middle East for inspiration, now Occupy Wall Street actually plans to go to the Middle East: On Thursday it approved $29,000 to send 20 observers to Egypt's election two weeks from now.
It's not quite the 1027-to-1 exchange rate that Hamas received, but 25 Egyptian prisoners will be going home in exchange for the release of suspected Israeli spy Ilan Grapel.
Twenty Christians were killed in the latest crackdown, and doubts are growing
A firm has estimated the economic consequences to the Middle East uprisings
Christians marching in protest of a church attack clashed with police
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