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Egypt Sends Show of Force to Sinai After Kidnappings
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Oceaneering Bags Saipem Gig Offshore Egypt
Oceaneering International, Inc. announced that it has secured a contract from Saipem to supply umbilicals for the Burullus West Delta Deep Marine Phase IXa development located offshore Egypt. The order consists of ten subsea production control umbilicals totaling approximately 52.2 miles (84 kilometers) in length and two electrical power cables totaling approximately 55 kilometers (34.2 miles) ...
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Egypt KSA to sign joint power line deal
Egyptian electricity and energy minister Ahmed Imam is expected to sign an agreement with his Saudi counterpart for the construction of an electrical power line between the two countries, Daily News Egypt has reported. The total cost of the project is set to reach $1.6bn, with each side to bear the cost of construction on its own side of the border, which for Egypt is estimated at $600m. The ...
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Total buys Shells fuel network in Egypt
France's Total has acquired the fuel retail network of Royal Dutch Shell in Egypt, as the oil and gas major seeks to boost its distribution position in the country and across the region, Daily News Egypt has reported. Total currently owns 70 fuel stations in Egypt, which represents 4% of the market share. "Through this acquisition, we reaffirm our ambition to pursue our development in ...
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Report Egypt militants planned US Embassy attack
By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News An al Qaeda-linked cell disrupted in Egypt was planning suicide attacks on the French and U.S. embassies, the state news agency MENA reported, according to Reuters.In light of this news and last week’s stabbing of a U.S. citizen on the embassy’s perimeter, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo alerted U.S. citizens to exercise "elevated ...
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Police say Egyptian teen shot classmate with machine gun
An Egyptian middle school student was arrested after bringing a machine gun to school Monday and shooting a fellow student in the arm, police said. The incident took place in the northern city of Qena, long known as the heart of the nation's illicit arms smuggling trade. Officials said the number of guns coming from neighboring Libya has increased dramatically since that country's ...
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Oceaneering Announces Burullus Phase IXa Contract
) announced that it has secured a contract from Saipem to supply umbilicals for the Burullus West Delta Deep Marine Phase IXa development located ...
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AWB NBKs subsidiary in Egypt reports 15.3 growth in profits in first quarter 2013
Al Watany Bank of Egypt (AWB), the subsidiary of National Bank of Kuwait Group (NBK) in Egypt, reported net profits of EGP86.6m in the first quarter of 2013 compared with EGP75.1m in the same period last year, an increase of 15.3% ...
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U.S. says concerned with charges against Egyptian journalists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday expressed concern over defamation charges brought against two Egyptian journalists critical of President Mohamed Mursi and called on the government to condemn actions that stifle freedom of ...
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The Egypt-Israel peace test
The rocket strikes that a militant Islamist group fired last month from the Egyptian Sinai into the Israeli city of Eilat served as yet another reminder of how delicate bilateral relations remain two years after Egypt's revolution. Terrorist activity could easily cause a crisis on the border, with the potential to trigger an unwanted confrontation that would threaten the peace treaty that ...
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US deeply concerned by prosecution of political speech in Egypt urges government to act
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is calling on the Egyptian government to rein in prosecutions of political expression amid what it called a "growing trend" of efforts to punish and deter people from speaking their mind. Ahead of a planned meeting this week between Secretary of State John Kerry and Egypt's president, the State Department said Monday that it was "deeply ...
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Reinforcements sent to Egypts Sinai
EGYPT sent police reinforcements to the Sinai after an attack on a police camp in the wake of the kidnapping of security personnel, officials say. In Cairo, all options were on the table to secure the release of the three policemen and four soldiers held last week in the lawless peninsula, the presidency said. Eighty Central Security (riot police) units and 26 armoured personnel carriers were ...
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Egypt faces social pressure to cease selling of alcohol
CAIRO--Egypt's liquor stores are under growing pressure to stop selling alcohol, they say, not from the country's Islamist government, but from society ...
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Counselling after Egypt pool death
The head teacher of a five-year-old girl who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt has spent the day informing children at her school about her death. Chloe Johnson, from south-east London - who he described as a "popular little girl" - died on Friday on holiday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Andy Mathieson said her classmates had drawn pictures for her and her peg and picture ...
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Catholic Bishop in Egypt Notes Hopes for Strengthened Ties With Copts
A Coptic Catholic bishop has expressed hopes that the historic meeting May 10 between Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II will lead to the Coptic Orthodox Church recognizing Catholic ...
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Gruesome Attacks on Egyptian Women Spawn Helmeted Volunteer Protectors
In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 photo, Egyptian volunteers of Tahrir Bodyguard, an anti-harassment group, work at a rally in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) The very same night in February 2011 that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak fell from power, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was brutally assaulted by a group of at least 200 men while covering the demonstrations in ...
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Egypt lifts security after border kidnappings
An Egyptian military armoured personnel carrier patrols a street in the Sheikh Zowied town near Rafah, in the northern Sinai on May 20, 2013. Egypt sent police reinforcements to the Sinai after an attack on a police camp in the wake of the kidnapping of seven security personnel in the lawless peninsula, officials said. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMED EL-SHAHED *** Local Caption *** ...
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Egypts Copts again under attack but ex-nuncio sees positive strides
Egypt's Christian minority suffered two more violent assaults during the past week, with bombings at Coptic Orthodox churches in two different towns. A mob of Muslim militants attacked the church of St. Mary in Alexandria, setting fires and shattering windows with Molotov cocktails. In the village of Menbal another Muslim gang broke into a Coptic church, threw stones, and looted nearby ...
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Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone
Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone GAZA - Palestinian Government in Gaza announced that the tunnels between Egypt and Gaza were closed, and the border was declared as a military zone."The tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, where the smuggling and shipment of some goods were made, were closed, and the border was declared as a closed military ...
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Egyptian Political Leader Expresses Support for Bolivarian Venezuela
Cairo, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Popular Egyptian Current Party (Nasserist), Hamdeen Sabahi, expressed his support for the Bolivarian Government of President Nicolas Maduro, during an interview with the Venezuelan ambassador here, Juan Antonio Hernandez. Former presidential candidate Sabahi said he was satisfied with the meeting and expressed his solidarity with the Government and ...
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Reinforcements to Egypts Sinai after police camp hit
View Photo AFP/AFP - A poster near the Rafah border crossing on Monday of four out of seven security personnel kidnapped in Sinai. Egypt sent police reinforcements to the Sinai after an attack on a police camp on ...
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Developing African Infrastructure for the Continents Structural Transformation
Across Africa, investments in physical and social infrastructure have failed to keep pace with growth and demand, creating a serious infrastructure deficit that slows investment, the achievement of broad-based and inclusive growth, and poverty reduction. The figures are revealing. More than half of the countries in Africa suffer chronic power outages, stifling industrialization and other ...
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Benin-Nigeria Power Interconnection Project - Sharing Energy in West Africa
The Electricity Authority of Benin-Nigerian Electric Power Authority power interconnection project, jointly financed by the African Development Bank, the West African Development Bank, and the Economic Community of West African States, is one of the sparkling flagship projects for regional integration and cooperation in West Africa. Financed under the West Africa Power Pool program, the project ...
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Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah of Egypt convened a seminar on the The economic crisis of Egypt its roots causes and solution
On Saturday 1st Rajab 1434 (11/05/13) Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah of Egypt convened an economic seminar in the premises of the 'Lawyers Association' under the title: 'The economic crisis of Egypt, the roots, causes and the ...
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Egypt sends extra troops to Sinai
Egypt has increased its security presence in the Sinai peninsula, four days after seven members of its forces were abducted there. Armoured vehicles were seen crossing into northern Sinai on Monday in response to the kidnapping. A video emerged at the weekend apparently showing the men pleading for their release. The Egyptian president held emergency meetings with security chiefs on Monday ...
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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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