Zahi Hawass is on the stump again for ancient Egypt's Pharaohs Los Angeles Times For many years, Zahi Hawass has been the living face of ancient Egypt, an ambassador for long-dead Pharaohs who uses his high-wattage personality, telegenic showmanship and knack for wading confidently into controversy to preserve both their star ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Egypt presses ahead with ridiculed medical device Sydney Morning Herald Cairo: Egypt's military has pressed ahead with promotion of a fanciful device it claims can diagnose and cure AIDS and hepatitis, announcing that it would be tested in the next six months on larger numbers of patients in army hospitals. The military's ... Egypt's Army Says 'Virus Cure' Needs More Tests Egyptian military backtracks on Aids cure claims Egypt presses ahead with ridiculed gadget |
Globalnews.ca | Egypt Moves to Restrict Ramadan Sermons ABC News Egypt will restrict sermons during the holy month of Ramadan to topics of faith and morality, the state's top official in charge of religious affairs said Sunday, in the latest measure by the government to control mosques and limit access of opponents ... Egypt to restrict Ramadan sermons, further stifling political speech Egypt restricts Ramadan sermons |
Wall Street Journal | Egypt Violence Kills 2 Civilians, 4 Conscripts ABC News Militants in Egypt's northern Sinai shot and killed four conscripts returning from holidays to their duty station Saturday, hours after two homemade bombs killed a teenager and her mother in a construction site near Cairo, security officials said. The ... Why Is the World Silent? Egypt Bomb Blasts Kill Two Egypt captures 15 ISIL fighters as ambush kills four soldiers in Sinai |
Haaretz | Israeli Field May Supply Gas to Egypt Facility ABC News One of the developers of a natural gas field off Israel's Mediterranean coast on Sunday said it has signed a letter of intent to provide gas to a facility in Egypt. Delek Drilling said it is negotiating a deal to provide seven billion cubic meters of ... Leviathan Gas Field Partners Set for Talks to Supply BG in Egypt Leviathan partners sign preliminary deal to export gas to Egypt Egypt's EGAS expects delay in gas import terminal -source |
The Guardian | Novelist Ahdaf Soueif condemns 'war on young' as Egypt activists stand trial The Guardian One of Egypt's leading novelists, Ahdaf Soueif, has accused Egypt's military-backed authorities of "waging a war on the young" on the opening day of an expedited trial against 24 human rights activists in Cairo. "They are trying to push people back ... |
Al-Arabiya | Egypt to Repay Some of The $5.9 Billion It Owes Energy Firms Wall Street Journal LONDON—Egypt plans to pay back some of its ballooning debt to international energy companies in a bid to revive confidence in its flagging hydrocarbon sector and boost production, the country's oil minister Sherif Ismail said Thursday. Egypt currently ... Egypt says BP gas project restarted, pledges to pay gas firm debts UPDATE 2-Egypt says BP gas project restarted, pledges to pay gas firm debts |
Middle East Eye | Egypt hosts launch of new Qatari opposition group Middle East Eye CAIRO – A group of Qatari activists launched their country's almost first opposition group from the Egyptian capital Cairo. Called the "Youth Movement for the Rescue of Qatar", the new group aims to lobby for reform back home, according to its founders. |
New Yorker (blog) | Egypt's “Marriott Terror Cell” Travesty New Yorker (blog) Monday's sentencing, by a judge in Cairo, of three Al Jazeera journalists to between seven and ten years in prison for the crime of “defamation of Egypt,” and for using “unlicensed equipment” to perpetrate it, was a glaringly egregious judicial sham. Jailing of Peter Greste in Egypt reveals principles are the first casualty in ... Egypt defends itself at UN amid outcry over jailing of journalists Goodman: No TV for counterrevolution in Egypt |
Middle East Eye | Egypt's Sisi and Sudan's Bashir meet amidst controversy Middle East Eye Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took a brief stopover in Sudan on Friday on his way back from Equatorial Guinea where he was attending the African Union summit. Sisi spent a few hours in Sudan, conducting “a short visit to hold talks with ... Algeria-Egypt summit to support rebel Libyan general Egypt's Sisi in Sudan after Africa 'terrorism' warning |