Egypt’s Mubarak names successor to top cleric

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday appointed a new head of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious institution, after the death of its top cleric last week, the official MENA agency reported. Mubarak, who is recovering from surgery in Germany, "has issued a

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