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2009-10-13 23:06:47

By-EG
Talks with Russia: President Hosni Mubarak (R) during his meeting with the Chief of the Russian Intelligence Service (C) in Cairo yesterday.

2009-10-13 23:06:47

Egyptian woman protest ban on austere veil

By-Ben Wedeman-CNN
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- There's more to wearing the "niqab" -- the austere, all-covering veil favored by ultra-religious Muslim women --than meets the eye.

2009-10-12 23:01:24

Top cleric sued over niqab ban

By-The Egyptian Gazette
Controversial regulations:Cairo University students wearing the niqab ,which covers the face except for the eyes, standing outside the university dormitory last week,unable to enter due to new rules

2009-10-11 23:01:09

"Black Cloud" again casts a pall over the capital

By-Nehal Mostafa
The term "black cloud" has become widely used by Egyptians to describe the tiny particles of pollution in the air over the capital. For ten years now, from October to December, the cloud has

2009-10-10 23:00:42

Niqab ban infuriates some, heartens others

By-The Egyptian Gazette
HUNDREDS of female students gath-ered yesterday in front of the student hostels of Cairo University, Egypt's biggest public university, to protest a decision by the institution's administra-

2009-10-10 23:00:42

Classes continue despite two cases of swine flu

By-Tarek Amin,
Only five days into the academic year, the Ministry of Health announced that two cases of H1N1, or swine flu, had been detected among high school students. The first was a 15-year-old student at

2009-10-10 23:00:42

'US wheat quarantined'

By-The Egyptian Gazette
AUTHORITIES have quarantined 57,750 tonnes of US wheat at the Red Sea port of Safaga for quality control reasons, but is not holding any other wheat, Government officials

2009-10-07 23:04:03

Costa Rica stuns Egypt 2-0 at U20 WCup

By: Others
Costa Rica's Diego Estrada, left, battles with Hosam Hassan of Egypt in Cairo. CAIRO - Costa Rica beat Egypt 2-0 yesterday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Under-20 World Cup, dumping the hosts out of the tournament.

2009-10-07 23:04:03

Journalists to standtrial over false report

By-The Egyptian Gazette
EGYPT 'S Chief Prosecutor Abdel- Maguid Mahmoud yesterday referred the editor-in-chief and a journalist of the independent weekly Al-Balagh Al- Gadeed to the Urgent Criminal Court for publishing a

2009-10-06 23:01:06

Rights report blasts state of Egypt's prisons

By-Wael Ali
According to a report issued by the Association for Prisoner Support and Human Rights and recently submitted to the state-run National Human Rights Council, prisoners in Egyptian jails often suffer

2009-10-06 23:01:06

Dissident's nationality case deferred

By-The Egyptian Gazette
An administrative court in Cairo yesterday postponed until April 18 a lawsuit to strip an Egyptian-US dissident of his nationality for 'tarnishing Egypt's reputation', a legal source said

2009-10-05 23:00:55

Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'

By-BBC
Egypt's highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women's veils, known as the niqab. Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith.