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Food poisoning strikes Assuit wedding
Others | 24 October 2009
ABOUT 75 wedding guests, including 30 children, were hospitalised yesterday for apparent food poisoning, a police officer in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assuit said yesterday...
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Systematic torture occurring in Egypt
Others | 24 October 2009
Torture in Egypt has reached an intolerable level and is systematically being used on all levels of Egyptian society including women, children, elderly men and youth, regardless of ..
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Egyptians' monthly endless nightmare
Others | 24 October 2009
Each month, Egyptians have to bear the burden of soaring phone, water, electricity and trash-collecting bills, while their salaries remain unchanged.
There's one word to sum up this situation - it's a nightmare,'' says Hoda Abdul-Hameed, a Cairo
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Pope Shenouda rejects normalization with Israel
Others | 21 October 2009
Leader of Egypt's Coptic Church Pope Shenouda III on Monday stressed his rejection of normalized relations with Israel. "I reject any normalization with Israel in light of the continued occupation imposed on the Palestinians," he said...
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NDP official quashes succession rumours
Others | 21 October 2009
THE ruling National Democratic Party (NDP)will not change any of its leaders in its annual congress later this month,Safwat el-Sherif,the secretary-general of the party, said yesterday.He added that the ..
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Pope Shenouda: "I support Gamal Mubarak"
Others | 20 October 2009
ALEXANDRIA -- Leader of Egypt's Coptic Church Pope Shenouda III said the church "still had problems" with the governors of certain provinces.
"It depends on the character of the governor and his willingness to solve problems outside of a bureaucratic context," Shenouda said, calling for more cooperation between state officials and the church...
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Brotherhood denies leader has quit
Others | 20 October 2009
The deputy leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denied reports yesterday that Supreme Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef has quit in a row with conservatives in the leading opposition group..
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'We won't give in to the radicals'
Others | 19 October 2009
Liberal thinkers and writers are queueing up to protest against hesba (a religious principle, which legally empowers the ordinary Muslim to go to court if he suspects that a person, whether Muslim ..
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Costly healthcare infuriates rights groups
Others | 18 October 2009
A DECISION by the Medical Insurance Authority to raise healthcare fees for subscribers iscausing discontent in the corri- dors of local human rights organisations and prodding their officials into ..
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NGO appeals for releasing jailed blogger
Others | 17 October 2009
A NON- GOVERNMENTAL organisation has appealed to President Hosni Mubarak to order the Ministry of the Interior to release Egyptian blogger after spending three quarters of his sentence term...
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Tolerance before democracy, says ex-British official
Others | 17 October 2009
The price of democracy is much of our tolerance, which 'comes first'. This was the main concept of a lecture delivered by Lord David Owen, a former British foreign secretary in Cairo this week...
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Mubarak in Croatia for first time
Others | 17 October 2009
Ground-breaking talks: President Hosni Mubarak (R) sharing a joke with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor before their meeting in Ljubljana yesterday. Mubarak wrapped up yesterday an official two-..
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Egypt denies torture claims
Others | 14 October 2009
EGYPT yesterday denied allega- tions that the death of a Palestinian man at an Egyptian hospital was due to torture.“The death of Sami Abu Zuhri was due to a sharp drop in blood pressure,” said an ..
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Mubarak starts Euro tour today
Others | 13 October 2009
Talks with Russia: President Hosni Mubarak (R) during his meeting with the Chief of the Russian Intelligence Service (C) in Cairo yesterday. ..
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Egyptian woman protest ban on austere veil
Others | 13 October 2009
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...
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Top cleric sued over niqab ban
Others | 12 October 2009
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 ..
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"Black Cloud" again casts a pall over the capital
Others | 11 October 2009
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 ..
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Niqab ban infuriates some, heartens others
Others | 10 October 2009
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-..
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Classes continue despite two cases of swine flu
Others | 10 October 2009
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 ..
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'US wheat quarantined'
Others | 10 October 2009
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 ..
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Costa Rica stuns Egypt 2-0 at U20 WCup
Others | 7 October 2009
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...
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