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Morsi Leading Egypt Vote

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Final results out Tuesday.

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Results of Egypt's presidential elections are trickling in on Friday. The final results will not be released until Tuesday, but Egyptian newspapers say the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamad Morsi is emerging as the frontrunner, after the Islamist group said Morsi had won nationwide exit polls conducted by the organization. But there's also strong showings by three other candidates: Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a moderate Islamist, former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, a secularist, and former foreign minister Amr Moussa, also a secularist.

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