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Egypt sends army into Sinai after soldiers kidnapped last week
Egypt's army sent dozens of armoured vehicles and personnel carriers across the Suez Canal into North Sinai early on Monday, a security official has told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. The move comes as speculation grows that force could be used to rescue seven Egyptian ...
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No ownerships for Egyptians or foreigners in Suez Canal Corridor Minister
Minister of Housing Tarek Wafiq confirmed, in a lecture he gave at the closing session of Egyptian engineers meeting in Riyadh, that Suez Canal Corridor development project is fully under the State's control. There are no plans to sell lands to any Egyptian or foreign investor operating in the project and the system of usufruct will be applied while handling the project, he ...
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African dreams of Egypt-like revolt
All over Africa, the dramatic events in Tunisia and Egypt are followed, with opposition groups and dissidents hoping the same could happen in their country. Mostly, these are only dreams, but some could come ...
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Unpopular Egyptian central bank decision increases yields on treasury bills
Central Bank of Egypt Yields on Egyptian three- and nine-month treasury bills climbed on Sunday and the auction's size was reduced after a new central bank decree limited the amount of funds that banks can channel into money market funds to buy T-bills.The central bank said it had sold only 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($501.7 million) of T-bills instead of the 6 billion pounds it originally ...
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Morsi NGOs Law to be discussed with different parties before its approval
President Mohamed Morsi said a draft law on non-governmental organizations will not be approved before discussing it with all the civil society parties so that it may be satisfactory to all and support voluntary work in the field of development. This came during the president's meeting with the members of the General Federation of ...
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Zim treason charges for viewing Egypt on TV
The Robert Mugabe government on 19 February ordered the arrest of 46 activists attending a meeting organised by the International Socialist Organisation at which footage of the Egypt protests were shown and discussed. These 46 now have been charged with treason. "They were watching DVD news clips of the protests in Tunisia and Egypt," Roselyn Hanzi of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human ...
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If Egypt can we can do it too - Swazi opposition
"Tunisia and Egypt are a big 'we can do it too,' not just for Swaziland, but for the rest of the African continent and the repressed Arab world," according to the Swazi ...
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Zimbabweans missing after Egypt party
Five young Zimbabweans have gone "missing" after celebrating the victory of the Egyptian revolution. The five opposition supporters are believed to be in ...
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Egypt court suspends planned election date
An Egyptian court today ruled that the parliamentary elections, which President Mohammed Morsi had decreed for 22 April, must be postponed. Judges say the Constitutional Court needs time to approve the new Electoral Code. Mr Morsi says he will appeal the ...
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Opposition to boycott another Egypt election
This weekend, opposition leader Mohammed El-Baradei called for a boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections in Egypt. Mr El-Baradei made his announcement on Twitter, saying the opposition should not let itself to be abused to legitimise a "sham democracy". The Nobel Peace Prize laureate compared the upcoming poll to the last elections under toppled President Hosni Mubarak, when he ...
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Egypt Islamists use homophobia to win votes
Homosexuality is becoming an issue in the upcoming Egyptian elections, with the Muslim Brotherhood already being accused of spreading homophobia to win ...
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Dozens of tanks and heavy military equipment cross Suez Canal on way toNorth Sinai
Dozens of tanks and heavy military equipment cross Suez Canal on way to North Sinai Ismailia - Khaled Lotfy AlAhram 20-5-2013 | 09:48 [Google translation] http://bit.ly/19TTI7c An official security source said that that dozens of tanks and heavy equipment of the army crossed the Suez Canal en route to the northern Sinai. The source told Al Ahram that the contingent that included tanks, ...
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Father of five-year-old who drowned in Egypt tells of attempt to save her
The father of a five-year-old who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt fought back tears as he told how he was forced to try and resuscitate because there was no one to help ...
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Egyptian Soldier Recognizes Kidnapped Officers
An Egyptian soldier at the Rafah border crossing said on Sunday that he recognised four of his colleagues from a circulated online video of them being held hostages, an eyewitness told Aswat Masriya. Militants kidnapped seven security officers on Thursday, including four army conscripts and three state security officers. A video has been posted online showing seven blindfolded men dressed in ...
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Breaking - Unknown Assailants Fire At Rafah Central Security Camp
Unknown assailants opened fire at a central security forces camp in Rafah's al-Ahrash on Friday morning but there were no casualties, a security source said. The attackers shot at the camp's main gate, prompting armed security officers to fire back at them, the source added. This camp has been attacked five times since the 2011 uprising and was reinforced with army soldiers. State ...
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Even governors in Pharaonic Egypt died in their 20s
Researchers have analysed more than 200 mummies from ancient Egypt, finding that even high dignitaries were poorly nourished and had infectious diseases. The typical governor in Pharaonic Egypt died before he was 30 years ...
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Still double standards in Egypt justice
Egyptian activists are enraged by continued double standards by the judiciary, as strikers and protesters are still sent to military tribunals while an ex-Minister ordering the shooting of protesters is ...
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How cyber-activism lent savvy to North African protests
The revolutions and protest movements in North and sub-Saharan Africa are by the people, but they could never have taken the form they took and keep on taking without social media and new ...
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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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Egypt faces social pressure to end alcohol sales
CAIRO, May 20, 2013 (AFP) -Egypt's liquor stores are under growing pressure to stop selling alcohol, they say, not from the country's Islamist government, but from society itself. The shelves of Amir Aziz's central Cairo premises are stacked with beer, wine and spirits, but they are invisible from the street. Aziz has covered the window with metal sheets to avoid angering ...
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Egypt Anti-President Campaign Stirs Up Mixed Reactions
Cairo - The recent "Tamarrud" (Arabic for " Rebel") campaign that aims to pressurize Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi to call for an early presidential election has stirred up mixed reactions in the country. The campaign targets the collection of 15 million anti-Morsi signatures by the end June 30, which marks one year of Morsi's coming into office, to ...
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Eleven Arrested in Cairos Friday Clashes
Egyptian prosecution ordered on Sunday the arrest of 11 people for four days pending investigations, in relation to clashes that took place on Friday during a million-man demonstration calling for early presidential elections. The prosecution accused the defendants of assaulting security forces, destructing public and private enterprises, throwing firebombs and disturbing public order. The ...
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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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