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IMF aide to visit Egypt Monday to discuss $4.8 billion loan request - Reuters Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:07:02 GMT

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IMF aide to visit Egypt Monday to discuss $4.8 billion loan request
Reuters
The IMF's Middle East and Central Asia director, Masood Ahmed, will visit Cairo to meet with Egyptian officials to discuss recent economic developments and "possible IMF support for Egypt in facing these challenges," the IMF said in a statement ...
IMF official in Egypt on Monday for loan talksAFP
Egypt's Mursi to meet IMF aide on $4.8b loan requestThe Star Online
Egypt fights to prop up ailing currency as anxiety growsAhram Online
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Egypt to reshuffle key cabinet ministries - Aljazeera.com Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:25:58 GMT

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Egypt to reshuffle key cabinet ministries
Aljazeera.com
Egypt's cabinet is set for a major reshuffle ahead of a trip by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the official MENA news agency reported. Ten ministerial portfolios including the interior and finance ministries are set to change hands in a ...
UPDATE 2-Egypt fires finance, interior ministers before IMF visitReuters
Egypt to reshuffle 10 Cabinet ministries, state news saysCNN International
Egypt to Appoint 10 Ministers in Cabinet OverhaulBloomberg
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Saudi Arabia, Egypt Call for Peaceful Handover in Syria - Businessweek Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:54:49 GMT

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt Call for Peaceful Handover in Syria
Businessweek
Saudi Arabia and Egypt yesterday called for a “peaceful handover” of power in Syria, signaling closer cooperation as violence mounts with more than 60,000 people reported killed since the protests against President Bashar al-Assad began nearly two ...
Saudi, Egypt call for peaceful Syria solutionFRANCE 24
Saudi, Egypt calls for peaceful transition in SyriaPhilippine Star
Egypt-Saudi talks ongoingDaily News Egypt
Egypt SIS (press release)
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Court Clears Egypt's Ex-Culture Minister of Graft - ABC News Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:35:43 GMT

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Court Clears Egypt's Ex-Culture Minister of Graft
ABC News
A court has acquitted Egypt's former culture minister on charges he failed to account for around $1.5 million of his wealth. Farouq Hosni, culture minister for most of Hosni Mubarak's 29 year-rule, is among dozens of former officials who have faced ...
Egypt ex-minister cleared of graft: judicial sourceFRANCE 24
Egypt ex-minister cleared - reportSky News Australia
Egypt court acquits former culture minister of illicit gainsShanghai Daily (subscription)

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Post-Revolution, Egypt Seeks Financial Support - NPR Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:00:52 GMT

Post-Revolution, Egypt Seeks Financial Support
NPR
Since its revolution, Egypt's economy has taken a blow. It has already lost more than half of the foreign currency it once had from investors and tourists. Now the new Egyptian government is fighting to secure a $4.8 billion IMF loan. Host Linda ...

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Egypt fires finance, interior ministers before IMF visit - Yahoo! News (blog) Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:44:49 GMT

Egypt fires finance, interior ministers before IMF visit
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Enlarge Photo. Reuters/Reuters - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi answers reporters' questions after meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (unseen) at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels September …more 13, 2012.


UAE rejects Egypt call to free 'Brotherhood' detainees - Inquirer.net (blog) Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:59:09 GMT

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UAE rejects Egypt call to free 'Brotherhood' detainees
Inquirer.net (blog)
... from the Sheikh's official Twitter account. DUBAI—The United Arab Emirates has rejected a request from Egypt for the release of 11 of its nationals detained for suspected links to Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood, the Gulf News paper reported on ...
No interest in exporting what happened in EgyptSaudi Gazette
The crisis of government isn't overThe Economist
Egypt's Stillborn DemocracyAmerican Thinker
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Middle East Making fun of Morsi becomes riskier in Egypt 05.01.2013 - Deutsche Welle Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:44:33 GMT

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Middle East Making fun of Morsi becomes riskier in Egypt 05.01.2013
Deutsche Welle
Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was the subject of many an unkind word before his fall. Though the jokes were usually told in trusted circles only, they were known to many, and fear of reprisal engendered inventiveness. To avoid mentioning Mubarak by ...


Amid Instability In Egypt, Coptic Christians Flee To US - NPR Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:32:46 GMT

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Amid Instability In Egypt, Coptic Christians Flee To US
NPR
Coptic Christians will celebrate Christmas on Monday, and many will do so outside their native Egypt. Since the revolution there, their future in the country has looked uncertain, and many are resettling in the United States. Their population in the U ...
For Egypt's Christians, A Coptic Christmas In Times Of TroubleInternational Business Times
This Christmas, Egypt's Coptic Christians are asking for respectGlobe and Mail
Worry taints Egyptian Coptic ChristmasBBC News

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Protesters block accident-prone railways in Egypt's Al-Ayyat - Ahram Online Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:54:34 GMT

Protesters block accident-prone railways in Egypt's Al-Ayyat
Ahram Online
Residents of Giza's Al-Ayyat gathered Saturday morning on the accident-prone railways that connect with the neighboring city of Kafr Ammar, demanding the construction of a crossing as a precaution to avoid tragedies. Engineer Hussein Zakaria, board ...