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Foreign minister suggests Egyptian president may seek sixth term
Others | 3 October 2010
Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has signalled that President Hosny Mubarak will be a presidential candidate in the 2011 elections during an interview with a pan-Arab newspaper published on Friday...
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US Senate pushes for democracy in Egypt
Others | 3 October 2010
Washington - A resolution has been drafted in the Senate by Russ Feingold and John McCain to urge President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to
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Egypt MB; We will fight in upcoming elections
Others | 3 October 2010
Egypt's opposition group Muslim Brotherhood (MB) will contest the upcoming Parliamentary Elections, ignoring calls for a boycott, according to a statement by the group..
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Egypt tycoon gets jail, after death sentence scrapped
Others | 30 September 2010
Egypt's court jailed tycoon Hesham Talaat Moustafa Tuesday for 15 years following a retrial for his role in the murder of a Lebanese singer, after an earlier court ruling sentencing him to death was overturned..
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Minister: Egypt upcoming elections will be heated
Others | 30 September 2010
Egypt's Minister of Interior said Sunday that he expected upcoming parliamentary elections to be "heated", warning that the authorities would clamp down on anyone who stepped outside the law..
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'Christian Returnees' issue injunction against interior ministry
Others | 30 September 2010
CAIRO: A group of Christians who converted to Islam and then back to Christianity issued an injunction against both the Minister of Interior and the head of the Civil Status Organization for not implementing a court order that allows them to be identified as Christians on their ID cards.
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Egypt, China seek closer bilateral economic tie
Others | 29 September 2010
Egyptian and Chinese industry officials vowed closer bilateral economic ties on Sunday with the signing of an industrial cooperation agreement..
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Minister: Egypt upcoming elections will be heated
Others | 29 September 2010
Egypt's Minister of Interior said Sunday that he expected upcoming parliamentary elections to be "heated", warning that the authorities would clamp down on anyone who stepped outside the law..
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Egypt museum employee behind Van Gogh theft
Others | 29 September 2010
Egypt's Minister of Interior Habib el Adli said Sunday that an employee working in a Cairo museum was probably behind the theft of a Van Gogh painting that left Egyptian authorities red-faced..
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Gov't Oks plan to resolve TMG dispute
Others | 28 September 2010
CAIRO - Egypt's government said on Sunday it had approved a legal committee's plan to resolve a land row around the country's biggest listed developer's flagship project, a dispute which has raised concerns across the sector...
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No new Egypt telecoms licences seen before 2013
Others | 28 September 2010
Egypt's Minister of Telecommunications Tarek Kamel said Sunday that Egypt is unlikely to offer a second fixed-line telephone licence or a fourth mobile phone licence before 2013..
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Khaled Saied trial resumes amidst allegations of security intimidation
Others | 28 September 2010
ALEXANDRIA: The trial of two policemen implicated in the death of Khaled Saied continued Saturday, amidst allegations that security bodies are undermining court proceedings...
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Azhar slams bishop's comments on Qu'ran
Others | 27 September 2010
CAIRO — Sunni Islam's top religious body late Saturday slammed comments by an Egyptian Coptic bishop who cast doubt on the authenticity of some verses of the Qu'ran, saying his remarks threatened national unity...
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Trial of 2 policemen adjourned in Alex
Others | 27 September 2010
ALEXANDRIA - An Egyptian court on Saturday delayed the trial of two policemen who allegedly beat a young man to death in the city of Alexandria until late October, at the behest of the victim's lawyers...
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No new Egypt telecoms licences seen before 2013-paper
Others | 27 September 2010
CAIRO - Egypt is unlikely to offer a second fixed-line telephone licence or a fourth mobile phone licence before 2013, Egypt's telecommunications minister said in remarks published by the daily al-Mal on Sunday...
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Egyptian Bedouin attack Sinai police station
Others | 26 September 2010
ISMAILIA (Egypt )- Dozens of armed Bedouins surrounded a police station in central Sinai on Friday, locking in 15 police officers and setting a car ablaze in the worst bout of violence in the region for nearly two months...
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57 drug farms seized in Sinai
Others | 26 September 2010
Cairo-Six drug barons have been arrested in North Sinai in a crackdown on crime rings and drug-producing areas , the police announced later Friday...
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Muslim Brotherhood: we plan to participate in Egypt polls
Others | 26 September 2010
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood does not plan to heed calls for a boycott of November's parliamentary elections, a senior member of the moderate Islamist movement said on Thursday...
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Anti-gov't protest near Abdeen Square
Others | 23 September 2010
CAIRO - Political activists staged a protest in Cairo on Tuesday against what they said plans to hand power to the president's son.
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Ex-deputy Cairo governor acquitted in Duweiqa case
Others | 23 September 2010
CAIRO: Gammaliya and Manshiyet Nasser Misdemeanor Appeals Court acquitted Tuesday former deputy Cairo governor Mahmoud Yassin of charges of involuntary manslaughter and injury of the Duweiqa residents...
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Going hi-tech on sexual harassment
Others | 23 September 2010
CAIRO - A hi-tech weapon has been unveiled in the battle against sexual harassment in Egypt, where almost half the female population face unwanted attention from men every day...
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