TIME | While Trying to Mediate, Egypt Blames Israel for Gaza Conflict New York Times CAIRO — While holding itself out as an honest broker for truce talks between Israel and Hamas over the Gaza conflict, Egypt's new government sought on Monday to plunge into the battle over international public opinion on behalf of the Palestinian ... The Gaza Crisis and Egypt: Can Cairo Manage a Complex Relationship? Israel-Gaza conflict: Where is Egypt's Morsi? Israel, Hamas present truce ideas to Egypt, but threaten to escalate if talks fail |
TIME | As Morsy Deals with Gaza, Egypt Is Slammed with a Tragic Domestic Disaster TIME As President Mohamed Morsy struggles to calibrate his response to the ongoing Gaza Strip crisis, Saturday morning in Egypt brought a whole new challenge: the tragic death of at least 50 people, mostly children below the age of 6, when their school bus ... Egypt stocks tumble on Gaza bloodshed, Assiut rail disaster |
Egypt Hopes to Help Broker Cease-Fire, If Not Peace Between Israel and Hamas PBS Judy Woodruff talks to McClatchy Newspaper's Nancy Youssef about the efforts of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to negotiate a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants. Though close to a deal, Youssef reports common ground is scarce ... |
Al-Arabiya | Egypt Pays Less Than Spain for Euros as IMF Loan Talks Persist Bloomberg Egypt locked in lower borrowing costs than higher-rated Spain in selling a more-than-planned 640.2 million euros ($817 million) of debt, as prospects for an International Monetary Fund loan accord improved. The government, whose debt carries a junk ... REUTERS SUMMIT-UPDATE 2-Egypt PM says very close to IMF deal Egypt's PM says very close to IMF deal |
Can Egypt's President Morsi broker a Gaza peace deal? - video The Guardian Egypt's prime minister says an agreement to stop the fighting between Israel and the Hamas in Gaza could be close. Israel launched an air campaign on Wednesday with the declared goal of stopping rocket attacks. Here, the Guardian's Middle East editor ... |
Egypt PM says Gaza truce deal may be close Reuters Africa CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prime minister said on Monday that an agreement brokered by Cairo to stop the fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza could be close. "Negotiations are going on as we speak and I hope we will reach something soon ... |
CBC.ca | Palestinian deaths reach 100 as Egypt seeks Gaza truce CBC.ca Israeli aircraft struck crowded areas in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior militant with a missile strike on a media centre Monday, driving up the Palestinian death toll to 100, as Israel broadened its targets in the six-day-old offensive meant to ... |
Egypt claims progress towards ceasefire Financial Times Egyptian efforts to end Israel's Gaza offensive intensified on Monday, with a senior official in Cairo saying plans were being discussed for a two-stage ceasefire process and suggesting there were “encouraging signs” that Israel and Hamas were ready ... |
Egypt can lead Hamas to the new Middle East Globe and Mail Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has many balls to juggle. His political base is Islamist, anti-Israel and anti-U.S. But Cairo depends on billions of dollars annually from the United States and the European Union, which want the Egypt-Israel peace ... |
Foreign Policy (blog) | The Middle East Channel: Egypt's state constitutes itself Foreign Policy (blog) The bargaining among Egypt's political forces over the content of the country's constitution has been noisy, public, stormy, and dramatic. Indeed, over the past week, that tussle has brought the entire constitution drafting effort into crisis. It is ... Some constitution writers reject non-Islamists' withdrawal claims Egypt liberals withdraw from constitution committee Egypt's Liberals quit Constitution assembly |