Jehan Sadat, wife of former Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat..

UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The Egyptian government is drafting a new anti-terrorism law that will replace the country's 26-year-old state of emergency. In the process it is going to have to redefine its relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood -- which, though illegal, is still the most powerful opposition group.

CAIRO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The Egyptian government is drafting a new anti-terrorism law that will replace the 26-year-old state of emergency.

CAIRO, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was re-elected leader of his National Democratic Party Saturday by a crushing, and widely expected, landslide.

CAIRO, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- More than 6,000 delegates gathered for the ninth convention of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party this weekend -- their agenda heavy on economic reforms.

CAIRO, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Gamal Mubarak, the 43-year-old son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, appears poised to become the "fourth pharoah" in a succession of modern rulers.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Osama Bin Laden “is a man on the run, from a cave, who’s virtually impotent other than the tapes” he releases from time to time. That was the mid-September assessment of Frances Fragos Townsend, top adviser to President Bush on homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism. A former assistant commandant of the Coast Guard for intelligence, Townsend was also a counsel to the attorney general for intelligence policy. The best and the brightest in the Bush White House, she served as deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism before her elevation to czar (or czarina) for transnational terrorism.

UPI Almanac for Monday, Sept. 17, 2007.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- This weekend’s peaceful elections in Morocco and the al-Qaida bomb attacks in neighboring Algeria gave two sharply contrasting images of the realities of power and politics in North Africa.