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Egypt says it values its relations UAE
Egypt is proud of its deep-rooted fraternal ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its people, an Egyptian foreign ministry spokesperson has said. The relations with the UAE were based on mutual respect and joint interests, and would not be affected by any statements here or there, said spokesperson Badr Abdel Aaty in an official statement. The Egyptian foreign ministry was closely ...
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Egypt top cleric Protests against Morsi permitted
FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011 file photo, Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent theological institute of Sunni Islam, talks to the media in Cairo, Egypt. El-Tayeb said on Wednesday that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, dismissing declarations by Islamist hard-liners that those behind protests planned for June 30 are heretics. (AP ...
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Egypts Muslim Brotherhood braces for future trouble
CAIRO - For the Muslim Brotherhood, running Egypt has been like crossing a minefield. As President Mohamed Morsi ends his first year in office, fortifications being erected at his group's headquarters suggest a looming war.Behind a reinforced wall and a five-inch thick iron gate, the Brotherhood's Cairo compound bears scars of a divisive year that has triggered frequent protests and ...
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Egypt girls death puts spotlight on genital mutilation
The death of a 13-year-old girl during a genital mutilation procedure has brought the issue back into the spotlight in Egypt. While some Egyptians are fighting for the practice to be eradicated, others justify it in the name of religion, as the BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports. "We have been brought up according to certain morals. It shows good upbringing, a way of controlling a ...
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Latest blow to Egypts tourism Luxors governor
President Morsi has enraged residents in Luxor, one of Egypt's main tourism destinations, by appointing as governor a former member of Al Gamaa ...
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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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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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Excerpts Egypt risks 30 June protest violence. 3000 jobs in Saudi
Excerpts: Egypt risks 30 June protest violence. 3,000 jobs in Saudi for Egyptians. Russia urges softening Iran sanctions. Fiji offers 500+troops for Golan June 19, 2013 +++SOURCE: Fox News 19 ...
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Egyptian Official Spreads Blood Libel
television, Egyptian politician Khaled Zaafrani smilingly repeats an age-old blood libel. Translations of Arabic-language websites by the Middle East Media Research Institute ...
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Africa Sudan Egypt Told to Reconsider Position On Nile Waters
Juba-The South Sudanese Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hon. Paul Mayom Akec has urged Sudan and Egypt to reconsider their position in the affairs of the Nile Waters and membership to the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). "I want to appeal specifically to Sudan and Egypt to reconsider their positions and become effective members of the NBI that they participated in founding. They ...
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Egypt appoints former terrorist as Luxor Governor
Adel Mohamed al-Khayat is a former leader of terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya -- which in 1997 sent a terrorist squad that massacred 62 tourists before killing themselves at the ancient Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor -- and now he's a governor. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi this ...
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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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Cote dIvoire Gets Official Nod to Host 2014 ECOWAS Games
Abuja - Nigeria - The ECOWAS Commission and the Ivorian Government have signed an agreement formally awarding the hosting rights of the third ECOWAS Games to the country. The President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency Kadre Desire Ouedraogo and the country's Minister of Youth Development, Sports and Entertainment, Honourable Alain Lobognon initialed the Memorandum of Understanding ...
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Orascom Construction shareholders approve OCI N.V. offer OCI N.V.
), which were convened earlier today. A total of 168,118,467 Orascom Construction Industries S.A.E. shares were represented at the Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) representing 81.25% of total shares outstanding. A total of 168,093,053 shares approved all resolutions in the OGM, representing 99.98% of total shares present. Attending minority shareholders totaled 11,264,179 shares, with 99.83% ...
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Egypt tourism minister resigns over Luxor governors terror links
Egypt 's tourism minister has resigned in protest over the appointment as Luxor governor of a member of a hardline Islamist group associated with terrorists who killed at least 58 tourists in 1997.Hisham Zaazou, whose resignation has not yet been accepted by Egypt's prime minister, ...
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Morsi Critics Demand Early Egypt Elections
An Egyptian signs a petition for Tamarod, Arabic for "rebel", a campaign calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and for early presidential elections in the Shubra neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, June 2, ...
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Auditors find EU financial aid to Egypt to promote democracy ineffective
The approximately 1 billion the EU gave to the Egyptian government from 2007 to 2013 to fight corruption and promote human rights made little progress, according to the European Court of Auditors. A report by the ECA declared EU support for governance in Egypt, the most populous Arab country and a priority of the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument, as "well-intentioned but ...
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Samsung Entaleq initiative recieves 800 applicants in Just 50 Days
Following the outstanding launch of Egypt's first mobile application developers initiative; Entaleq, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, the global leader and award-winning innovator, has announced that the initiative has garnered over 800 participants to date, with the number still rapidly ...
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FSA approves Giza General Contracting to discuss capital increase
) to call for both OGM, EGM to discuss issued and paid capital increase by LE 14.698.500 for through free stocks distribution (one free stock for every four held) at a nominal value of LE 5 per ...
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Party of Egypts Islamist president blames opposition for violence over governors
CAIRO - Egypt's most powerful Muslim group has blamed the secular and liberal opposition for a wave of violence over the appointment of new Islamist governors. A Wednesday statement by the Freedom and Justice party, political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, says the refusal of opposition leaders to talk to Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was to blame for the violence in four Nile Delta ...
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In Recording Attributed to Mubarak He Says He Refused U.S. Bases
In a recording attributed to Egypt's toppled President Hosni Mubarak that appeared on YouTube on Wednesday, the ousted president said that he turned down the United States' request to deploy military bases to Egyptian soil. "The United States has always pressured us to put military bases in Egypt and I always strongly refused," Mubarak said in the low-quality recording ...
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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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Egypt's oil industry is growing rapidly
Egypt has, in recent years, made immense gains in terms of economic performance. The country has long been the economic powerhouse of North Africa and Africa in general (second only to South Africa and Nigeria) and has taken great steps to reverse the highly-centralized economy inherited from President Gamel Abdel Nasser.
The oil and gas sector has long been one of the major strengths in the Egyptian economy, along with other natural resources such as minerals, gold and natural gas. Read more
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