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Egypt to hire lawyer for student (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:18:56 GMT

Egypt's government is paying for the legal representation of a college student who authorities say was found with pipe bombs near a Navy base, an attorney said Wednesday.


6 million drug addicts in Egypt: study (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:26:51 GMT

At least 8.5 percent of Egypt's population, amounting to six million people, are addicted to drugs, an official survey published on Wednesday showed.


Egypt hires lawyer for USF student facing explosives charges (Sun-Sentinel)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:10:11 GMT

A locally prominent defense lawyer said today that Egypt's government would hire him to represent an Egyptian college student charged with making an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate terrorist bombs.


Egypt to hire lawyer for student (The Charlotte Observer)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:29:31 GMT

Egypt's government is paying for the legal representation of a college student who authorities say was found with pipe bombs near a Navy base, an attorney said Wednesday. Attorney John Fitzgibbons told a judge he was in talks with the Egyptian embassy in Washington and likely will be hired to represent suspended University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed. Ahmed ...


Neck and neck: U.S. weapons deliveries the same for Egypt, Israel (World Tribune)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:36:50 GMT

WASHINGTON — The United States have provided virtually the same amount of weaponry to Egypt and Israel, according to a congressional report. Egypt received $5.1 billion and Israel $5.2 billion in U.S. weapons deliveries from 2003 through 2006, despite a huge difference in aid levels.


Egypt to hire lawyer for student facing explosives charges (Miami Herald)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:41:53 GMT

A locally prominent defense lawyer said Wednesday that Egypt's government would hire him to represent an Egyptian college student charged with making an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate terrorist bombs.


Iberdrola and Mitsui to build solar thermal plant in Egypt (Energy Business Review)
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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:22:42 GMT

Egypts National Renewable Energies Authority has signed a contract under which the engineering unit of Spanish utility Iberdrola and Japanese firm Mitsui will build a turnkey 150MW solar thermal generating plant in Kuraymat, Egypt, at a cost of E150 million.


Egypt scrambles to avert new labour unrest (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:24:03 GMT

Egypt struggled Tuesday to stem a rising tide of industrial action as officials rushed to end the third strike in a week, the latest challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's regime.


Shiite activist arrested in Egypt over torture book (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:15:44 GMT

A rights activist from Egypt's minority Shiite community has been arrested for publishing "false information" on torture in Egyptian prisons, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.


Egypt to hire lawyer (WCBD-TV Charleston)
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Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:48:17 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A prominent Florida defense lawyer says Egypt's government is going to hire him to represent a University of South Florida college student charged with making an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate terrorist bombs.