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US needs to show Egypt some tough love - Washington Post Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:06:57 GMT

Fars News Agency

US needs to show Egypt some tough love Washington Post Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a monthly columnist for The Post. Michele Dunne is director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council. They are co-chairs of the bipartisan Working Group on ... Egypt Heads Toward the CliffHuffington Post (blog) Mubarak Era FM: Resumption of Iran-Egypt Ties Dates Back to 1983Fars News Agency Iran, Egypt can help resolve Syria crisis: Iranian officialPress TV The Daily Star -Daily News Egypt -Council on Foreign Relations (blog) all 21 news articles »

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Egypt's military signals impatience with Islamist president and his Muslim ... - Fox News Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:32:07 GMT

Washington Times

Egypt's military signals impatience with Islamist president and his Muslim ... Fox News "In essence, the military will not allow national stability or its own institutional privileges to come under threat from a breakdown in Egypt's social fabric or a broad-based civil strife," said Michael W. Hanna, an Egypt expert from the New York ... Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood failing with heavy-handed approachThe Seattle Times Black Bloc versus White Bloc in EgyptWashington Times Egypt's SCAF holding meetings in president's absence: Military sourcesAhram Online Center for Research on Globalization -UNC Chapell Hill -Al-Arabiya all 36 news articles »

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Egypt rights groups allege police brutality on the rise, call for firing ... - Washington Post Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:47:34 GMT

Washington Post

Egypt rights groups allege police brutality on the rise, call for firing ... Washington Post CAIRO — Egyptian rights groups alleged Wednesday that police abuse and brutality are on the rise in detention centers and at demonstrations, which have intensified since the second anniversary of the uprising that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's President Morsi Is The New American Stalwart In The RegionCounterCurrents.org Egypt's political elites and their estrangement from the poorYahoo! News (blog) Egypt: A Police Under Fire and in Need of ReformThink Africa Press Voice of America -New York Times all 17 news articles »

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Egypt Wheat Buyer Replaced as Nomani Heralded for Food Stability - Bloomberg Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:25:42 GMT

Business Recorder (blog)

Egypt Wheat Buyer Replaced as Nomani Heralded for Food Stability Bloomberg Egypt's ouster of Nomani Nomani as buyer of more than 5 million metric tons of wheat a year on world markets put a spotlight on a role that brought stability to the task of feeding the nation's 80 million people. Nomani, 58, who worked at the General ... Currency crisis hits Egypt's wheat supplyFinancial Times Egypt state grain buyer steps aside as currency reserves fallAhram Online World's Biggest Wheat Buyer Steps Down From Egypt AuthorityBusinessweek Business Recorder (blog) all 10 news articles »

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Egypt court rules policemen may grow Islamic beards - Jerusalem Post Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:35:14 GMT

Haaretz

Egypt court rules policemen may grow Islamic beards Jerusalem Post CAIRO - An Egyptian court ruled on Wednesday that policemen may grow beards, ending a decades-old convention barring them from making what is often seen here as a display of Islamic piety. Dozens of police officers were suspended from work in ... Egyptian court orders return of 'bearded policemen' to dutiesAhram Online Egypt: Court Allows Bearded Policemen Back to WorkAllAfrica.com all 6 news articles »

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'Hundreds of children' tortured in Egypt - Telegraph.co.uk Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:13:25 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

'Hundreds of children' tortured in Egypt Telegraph.co.uk ... of Muslims'. 10 Feb 2013. Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh boom threatened by Morsi assault on foreign ownership. 09 Feb 2013. "All of them had injuries on their bodies," he said. Egypt's interior ministry did not respond to the paper's request for comment. Egypt tries to lure back exiled businessmenAl-Arabiya Young children detained and tortured after protests in EgyptThe Independent all 4 news articles »

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Egypt Attempts to Flush Out Gaza's Smuggling Tunnels - TIME Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:38:09 GMT

TIME

Egypt Attempts to Flush Out Gaza's Smuggling Tunnels TIME The tunnels under the border between Gaza and Egypt were flooded by Egyptian forces last week. The country is worried about the two-way flow of smuggled arms with the Gaza Strip which is destabilizing Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, increasingly a hotbed of ...

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Egypt moves to ban alcohol sales - Washington Times Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:34:59 GMT

Washington Times

Egypt moves to ban alcohol sales Washington Times Egypt's Islamic government will no longer be issuing alcohol permits and will not renew existing ones in certain areas of Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities, an official has said. “NUCA has stopped renewing licenses to sell alcohol but the ... and more »

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Palestinian militant Hamas group accuses Egypt of flooding smuggling tunnels ... - Fox News Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:09:43 GMT

New York Times (blog)

Palestinian militant Hamas group accuses Egypt of flooding smuggling tunnels ... Fox News GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The Hamas rulers of Gaza and local smugglers on Tuesday accused Egypt of flooding cross-border tunnels with sewage water in order to halt a thriving smuggling trade that has propped up the local economy for the past five years. Tunnel VisionNew York Times (blog) Egypt finds hundreds more smuggling tunnels to GazaWorld Tribune Egypt adopts new tactic in curbing Gaza tunnelsShanghai Daily (subscription) Globe and Mail -Mid Columbia Tri City Herald -The Times of Israel all 97 news articles »

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Egypt Food Manufacturer Closes Business After Workers Protest - Bloomberg Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:41:25 GMT

Egypt Food Manufacturer Closes Business After Workers Protest Bloomberg Faragalla Group, an Egyptian food producer, said it shut down its factories yesterday after workers stormed the complex to demand higher pay. The plants, located near Alexandria, halted production after they were raided by more than 200 workers, some ... and more »