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ATLANTA - Georgia s execution of Troy Davis for the murder of an off-duty police officer has done little to resolve the debate over his guilt that captured the attention of thousands worldwide, including a former president and the pope.Davis remained defiant even after he was strapped to a gurney Wednesday night in the state s death chamber, declaring his innocence and urging the victim s family to continue searching for the truth. I ask my family and friends to continue to fight this fight, Davis said in his final statement.Demonstrators
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Back in the 1990s, kids in Egypt thrilled to a series of science fiction novellas called The Future File by Dr. Nabil Farouk, which depicted an optimistic vision of a future Egypt. Now a cartoonist named Sherif Adel has created a satirical version called Pass By Tomorrow, in which the future Egypt is much the same as today. Talking to Your Middle East, Adel explains this comic, which features a not-terribly-heroic protagonist in the year 3014: Where is Egypt heading to is a question that we have been asking ourselves over and over during the past few years and 鈥?in my experience at least 鈥?we ;ve been slowly realising that nothing major is actually changing. Corruption, misbehaviour, hara
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