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Egypt to dig a parallel channel to Suez Canal by 2012
Others | 25 August 2010
A President of Egypt's Port Said Port Authority Ibrahim Seddiq a tender for the construction of a navigation channel parallel to Egypt's Suez Canal will be offered before the end of this year..
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Prime-time TV show hits Egypt Muslim Brotherhood
Others | 25 August 2010
A prime-time TV show charting the rise of Egypt's main opposition movement the Muslim Brotherhood is gripping audiences and angering leaders of the group, who see an attempt to tarnish its name before elections this year..
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Egypt culture chief sleepless over painting theft
Others | 25 August 2010
CAIRO - Egypt's culture minister blamed "incompetent" security staff for the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum and ..
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Egypt culture chief sleepless over painting theft
Others | 25 August 2010
CAIRO - Egypt's culture minister blamed "incompetent" security staff for the theft of a $55 million Van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum and ..
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Common values at unity iftar
Others | 24 August 2010
CAIRO - As the Muslim world has turned its attention to the fasting month of Ramadan, Pope Shenuda III, leader of the Coptic Church in Egypt, has urged Muslims and Christians to give money to thepoor...
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Egypt Denies Recovery of Stolen Van Gogh
Others | 24 August 2010
On Saturday a Van Gogh painting titled Poppy Flowers, worth an estimated $55 million was stolen from a Cairo museum..
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In new posters, Mubarak son for Egypt president
Others | 24 August 2010
Posters have sprouted up around Egypt promoting President Hosni Mubarak's younger son as the country's next leader, in the most overt campaign yet for a controversial father-son succession in this key U.S...
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Egypt steps up hunt for stolen painting
Others | 23 August 2010
CAIRO(update)- Egypt has stepped up the search for a Van Gogh painting valued at more than 50 million dollars stolen from a Cairo museum, an official said Sunday, as two Italians arrested over the theft were released...
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Mubarak accepts invite for Mideast talks
Others | 23 August 2010
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accepted an invitation to attend the start of direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Washington next month, a newspaper reported on Saturday...
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Appeal by Egyptians, convicted of espionage in Qatar, in October
Others | 22 August 2010
CAIRO- Egypt is closely following an appeal by two Egyptians who were sentenced to life imprisonment on espionage charges by Qatar earlier this year, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official said on Saturday , adding that the appeal would be heard in October...
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Campaigns for Egypt opposition, regime supporters on the rise
Others | 22 August 2010
Collecting signatures for petitions and distributing leaflets have recently become trademarks of street politics in Egypt among both regime supporters and opposition, said Egypt's paper almasri alyoum ..
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Rights group calls for resignation of electricity minister
Others | 22 August 2010
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Human Rights (ECHR) has called for the resignation of the Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis, citing the excessive power cuts that have plighted Egypt since the beginning of Ramadan...
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Ramadan bags in return for the poor votes in elections
Others | 19 August 2010
Cairo – Ramadan bags - food supply bags for the needy - lost their real humanitarian aim and turned to be just tools used by the political powers specially those of religious trends in order to achieve their electional targets under the name of supporting the poor during the holy fasting month of Ramadan...
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New cancer hospital planned
Others | 19 August 2010
CAIRO - Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak decided to launch a national subscription campaign to built an advanced cancer hospital in the 6th of October Governorate to replace the diaplating Cairo Tumours Institute...
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Lawyer sues three ministers
Others | 19 August 2010
CAIRO - A Cairo-based lawyer has filed a law suit against the Ministers of Finance, Agriculture and Trade and Industry accusing them of being the main cause of a crucial wheat shortage that created new worries about food sufficiency in the country...
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Ahly of Egypt complain against JS Kabylie
Others | 18 August 2010
Al-Ahly are preparing to lodge a complaint against JS Kabylie with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) due to what happened during their match against Kabylie in Algeria in the African Champions League (ACL) on Sunday night, the local media reported on Tuesday...
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Egypt earmarks $1.3b for wheat imports
Others | 18 August 2010
CAIRO--Egypt's main wheat buyer has said it wants to buy 55,000 to 60,000 tonnes of wheat on a free-on-board basis (FOB) from the US, Canada, Germany and Australia. The General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) said grain shipments should be delivered from September 16 to September 30...
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Secularist quits Al Wafd over Brotherhood
Others | 18 August 2010
CAIRO--A leading Coptic secularist has quit Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party, in protest at the chief of the party's visit to the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned-but-influential opposition power...
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Wafd to run for Egypt's presidency
Others | 17 August 2010
CAIRO-- Chief of Al Wafd, Egypt's oldest liberal party, has said that his party will field a candidate in Egypt's presidential elections due next year.
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Egypt universities fail to appear on Chinese ranking system
Others | 17 August 2010
Harvard University has topped the Chinese list of university rankings for the eighth consecutive year. No Egyptian or Middle Eastern universities featured on the list..
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Ahly of Egypt beaten in Algeria
Others | 17 August 2010
ALGIERS--Egypt's Al Ahly were beaten 1-0 by JS Kabylieof Algeria in their African Champions League Group B clash in Tizi-Ouzou on Sunday night...
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