Press secretary Carney said Obama was committed to the Arab Spring as Rep. Allen West called for slashing Egypt's aid.

Hani Nour Eldin is an Egyptian parliamentarian, but also a member of designated terrorist organization Gamaa Islamiya.

Iran is gloating that its nuclear program is going strong after reports Stuxnet was designed to stop operating after Sunday.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) might not expect a vote on the Law of the Sea Treaty until after the November elections, but that isn’t stopping him from presenting his full-fledged case for the treaty. 

Kerry is bringing some big guns in for his committee’s fourth hearing in the past two months on the long-stalled treaty. The latest hearing will focus on the business community, which has mostly come out in support of the sea treaty.

The witness list for Thursday’s hearing is filled with top executives: the Chamber of Commerce’s Thomas Donohue, Verizon Communication’s Lowell McAdam, American Petroleum Institute’s Jack Gerard and National Association of Manufacturer’s Jay Timmons.

President Obama called Egyptian President-elect Mohamed Morsi to congratulate him on his election.

The United Nations is slated to craft a long-delayed international treaty next month.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate has won Egypt’s presidential election, according to media reports.

The victory by Mohamed Morsi is likely to complicate the relationship between the United States and Egypt.

Morsi has carried 52 percent of the vote in the election to replace Hosni Mubarak, according to Reuters. Mubarak was overthrown last year after an uprising and is in custody. Reports this week said he was near death.

The military that rules Egypt has restrained the powers of the nation’s presidency, leaving control of the state in the hands of generals who historically have been wary of religious parties and particularly the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said it was “time to move on” from Pakistan’s demand that the United States apologize for accidentally killing 24 troops along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, an incident that’s imperiled U.S.-Pakistan relations.

"We've made clear what our position is, and I think it's time to move on,” Panetta said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday.

“If we keep going back to the past, if we keep beating up each other based on past differences, we'll never get anywhere," he said.