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Egyptians split on Saturdays referendum
Protesters at Cairo's legendary Tahrir Square are mostly against tomorrow's precipitated referendum over a new constitution for Egypt, which they see as too similar to the ...
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Leaks Mubarak behind 2005 terror attack
Documents seized from Egypt's dismantled State Security agency seem to document that the Mubarak regime itself was planning and executing the bombing of the ...
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Qatar Gaza Aid Via Egypt Not Israel
Former US President Jimmy Carter has downplayed the US influence over Israel and Palestine, saying its record low sway on either side hinders resolution of prolonged Palestinian-Israeli ...
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Deaths in Israel-Egypt Border Shootout
One Israeli soldier and three armed men have been killed in clashes along the Israel-Egypt border. Israeli troops shot the three heavily armed men when they crossed the Egyptian border and ambushed the soldiers, averting "a very big terror attack", an Israeli military spokeswoman said on Friday. The incident took place on the Israeli side of the frontier at a place called Har Harif, ...
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Nations Decision to Cut Diplomatic Ties With Syria Discussed As Marzouki Meets With Ambassador
Tunis - Egypt's decision to severe its diplomatic ties with Syria was discussed as Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki received, on Tuesday at the Palace of Carthage, Egypt's ambassador in Tunis Aymen Jameleddine Abdelfettah Machrafa. The Egyptian ambassador officially informed President Marzouki about Egypt's decision to cut its diplomatic ties with the Syrian regime, a ...
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Rights Group Denounces Work Suspension of Radio Announcer in Cairo
Egypt: ANHRI Denounces Work Suspension of a Radio Announcer in Cairo Broadcast and Sending Him for Investigation Because of Hosting a Leader in ...
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Number of Anti-Mursi Petitions Will Surprise - Organizer
Mohamed Abdel Aziz, a central committee member of the "Tamarod" (Rebel) campaign, has said that the campaign has collected over 15 million petitions and plans to hold a press conference to announce the official numbers soon. The purpose of Tamarod is to collect petitions to push for a no-confidence vote against President Mohamed Mursi and call for early presidential elections. ...
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Mursi Discusses Challenges Facing Nation With Azhar Sheikh Pope
President Mohamed Mursi met with al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb and Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria to discuss the challenges currently facing Egypt. The meeting included discussions on the necessity of mobilising all economic and social potential to allow for development, the presidency wrote on its Facebook page. Mursi praised the national and historical roles of both al-Azhar institution ...
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Egypt Islamists blame violence on opposition
Egyptians looks through a decorated tent set by volunteers to offer a shade spot in Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Temperatures in Cairo reached 34 degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Amr ...
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Info2cell.com expands free mobile medical apps for regions smartphone users
Info2cell.com, mobile service application provider in the Middle East, has announced that it will be expanding the reach of its free medical mobile applications for the region's smartphone users with the signing of two additional contracts in ...
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EGX announces cancellation of 60.000 local deposit receipts of ODH
: EGX administration announced that it has received a release from Misr for Clearing, Depository and Central Registry (depositary bank) stating that: 1- Cancelling of 60.000 of Orascom Development Holding - ...
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Egypt Demonstrators Attempt to Storm Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Gharbiya
A group of demonstrators attempted to break into the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in Gharbiya governorate on Tuesday, an eyewitness said. They hurled petrol bombs and stones at the building, the eyewitness added. The demonstrators earlier attempted to barge into a services office belonging to the brotherhood yet they later withdrew. At the same time, a state of cautious calm ...
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Egypt Salafi Nour Party Will Not Take Part in Next Fridays Demonstrations
The Salafi Nour Party said on Tuesday it will not participate in next Friday's demonstrations in order to avoid any violence that may break out. Demonstrating amid such circumstances leads to mobilising more crowds from the opposing side, the Middle East News Agency reported the party as saying. Several Islamist parties including the Freedom and Justice Party, the Building and Development ...
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Grand Investment Capital incurs LE 2.4 m loss in a year
) reported consolidated financial results posting a net loss of LE 2,495,447 for the period from 01/04/2012 till 31/03/2013. Noting that, it posted net loss of LE 144,816 for the comparable ...
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Egypt current ac deficit shrinks in fiscal year to March
The current account deficit shrank in the nine months to end-March to $3.9 billion compared to $7.1 billion in the nine months to March 2012, the central bank said in a statement. Offering slight respite to an economy hurt by dwindling foreign currency reserves, the first three quarters of the fiscal year saw tourism revenue rise to $8.08 billion, up 14 percent on a year earlier. Unrest ...
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Second Meeting of ADF 13 Replenishment - Closing Remarks - Afdb President Donald Kaberuka
As we come to the end of this, the penultimate remains for me to express my remains for me to express my appreciation and that of Staff and Management for our constructive dialogue over these two and a half days. I believe it has enabled us to close in on a number of key issues and a better understanding of your preoccupations and concern, but what is it we are trying to achieve. In large ...
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2 killed 16 wounded in shell explosion in Egypts Assiut
Two people, including an army recruit, were killed and 16 others wounded Tuesday after a shell hit a military unit in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut, the state-run Al-Ahram Online reported.A soldier and a civil servant were killed, Assiut Security Chief, Maj. Gen. Abul Qassim Abu Daif said.He added that the wounded have been sent to ...
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Egypts Mubarak interview I quit power to save lives
Former Egyptian President waves from the dock (File photo: AFP) Toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that his decision to step down was his own, adding that he could have remained in power if he had wanted to, in an interview ...
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Misr Cement approves $ 30 m loan offer from European Bank
) announced that BOD initially approved European Bank loan offer amounting to $ 30 million to finance waste heat recovery project and renewable energy project. Moreover, it approved authorizing bank's adviser to prepare the required studies to finalize the ...
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Ethiopia agrees with Egypt Sudan to study Nile-Dam impact
Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan agreed to conduct further studies on what impact a hydropower dam on the main tributary of the Nile River will have on downstream countries, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said. Ethiopia also assured Egypt that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River is being built in a way that will address Egypt's water-security concerns, ...
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Ezz Steel raises Ain Sokhna’s new DRI plant finance to LE 2.8 bln
) announced that it signed a contract with National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr and other local banks to raise the amount of loan directed to finance Ain Sokhna's new Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant. Ezz stated that, the loan has been increased to by LE 550 million to LE 2.8 billion. The company added, in a release sent to EGX that, the loan will be paid back in quarterly installments ...
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Iran and Egypt Old Foes New Competitors
Demonstrators storm the offices of the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, in protest of President Morsi's expansion of powers in Alexandria, Egypt, on Nov. 23. (Photo: Mohamed Hanno, ...
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52 of companies view careless employees as threat to sensitive data Survey
- Employee negligence poses a serious threat to the security of corporate confidential data, according to over half the respondents in the Worldwide Security Products survey conducted among major global companies by the research agency IDC in February 2013. The companies identified this as a priority for 2013, and intend to work towards developing and implementing policies to ensure a ...
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Prosecutor Appeals Court Order to Release Mubarak
An Egyptian court ordered the release of toppled President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday on charges of illicit gains, but a prosecutor appealed the order. Mubarak will remain under custody pending investigations on other corruption charges. The prosecutor said that the ousted president failed to pay off his debts. A criminal court adjourned the former president's retrial last week in the case ...
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Policeman Killed in Chase of Armed Gang in Egypt
An Egyptian officer was killed on Tuesday during a police chase of an armed gang who robs residents of the Shubra al-Khema neighborhood in the governorate of Qaliubiya. Residents of the neighborhood had reported to Lieutenant Mohmaed Yasser Hosny that unknown armed assailants inside a vehicle were stopping passersby and robbing them. When Hosny headed to the area with forces to investigate the ...
Cairo Discussed
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Cairo leading new wave in literature
The publishing industry in Cairo is undergoing a profound change that may have implications for the day-to-day life of Egyptians for years to come, it is a kind of revolution in literature that may one day put Cairo on the map, nestled among those other publishing powerhouses, New York, London, and Chicago primarily, but also regional publishing centers like Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Sydney.
Cairo is already a literature producing city, but it is more commonly associated with Arabic texts, and these pieces of literature are further associated with sweeping assessments of society, societal change, politics and religion on a macrocosmic level. Traditionally, there has also never been much of a local market for literature in Cairo or wider Egypt, leading to an old saying that books are written in Cairo, but published in Beirut and then read in Baghdad. Read more
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