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Gaza Welcomes Break From Strife and Reopening of Border With Egypt - New York Times Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:01:36 GMT

New York Times

Gaza Welcomes Break From Strife and Reopening of Border With Egypt
New York Times
First, Egypt opened its border crossing, allowing thousands of Palestinians to exit Gaza after being penned in for months. Then, Egypt allowed in 8,000 tons of cement, a fraction of what the territory needs to rebuild. But the move suggested a thaw in ...
Egypt closes Rafah border crossing into bloackaded GazaPress TV
Week-long opening of Egypt-Gaza border crossing comes to an endAhram Online
Egypt re-closes the Rafah crossing until further noticePalestine News Network
Kuwait News Agency -Al-Monitor
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8 million mummified animals, mostly dogs, in catacombs at Egypt site - CNN Sat, 20 Jun 2015 13:52:21 GMT

CNN

8 million mummified animals, mostly dogs, in catacombs at Egypt site
CNN
(CNN) For centuries, dogs have been humans' loyal, domesticated companions. They've been wild animals, doing what's needed to survive. And in ancient Egypt, they served as bridges to the afterlife, with the hope that they'd intercede with the god ...

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Germany detains Al-Jazeera journalist at Egypt request - Yahoo News Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:56:54 GMT

Yahoo News

Germany detains Al-Jazeera journalist at Egypt request
Yahoo News
Al-Jazeera also said on its website that an Egyptian court had sentenced Mansour in absentia in 2014 to 15 years in prison, for "torturing a lawyer in 2011 on Tahrir Square" in Cairo, epicentre of an anti-regime uprising that brought down former ...
Al Jazeera Journalist Detained In Germany On Egypt's RequestBuzzFeed News
Germany arrests senior Al Jazeera journalist at Egypt's requestHaaretz
Al-Jazeera Journalist Detained in Berlin on Egyptian WarrantNew York Times
Aljazeera.com -i24news
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Helicopters, Scanners No Match for Egypt's Exam Cheats - U.S. News & World Report Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:29:00 GMT

U.S. News & World Report

Helicopters, Scanners No Match for Egypt's Exam Cheats
U.S. News & World Report
CAIRO — High school exam seasons in Egypt are often accompanied by exam leaks — a phenomenon that has become a major challenge to the successive Egyptian governments, despite several attempts to confront it. The government transports exam ...


The west's betrayal of Egypt will reap a bitter harvest - The Guardian Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:00:42 GMT

The Guardian

The west's betrayal of Egypt will reap a bitter harvest
The Guardian
The brutal crackdown on the former Muslim Brotherhood officials and supporters – as well as civil society and the media – will only serve to isolate and radicalise a restless core of Egypt's voters and jettison them from the political mainstream. After ...
David Cameron invites Egypt's Sisi to London after Morsi death sentenceTelegraph.co.uk
Egypt's Morsi appeals convictionEyewitness News
Egypt's Morsi appeals protesters jail sentence: lawyerYahoo News
Reuters UK -The Independent -Reuters
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First Woman Municipality Head In Alexandria, Egypt, Appointed By Governor - International Business Times Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:31:00 GMT

International Business Times

First Woman Municipality Head In Alexandria, Egypt, Appointed By Governor
International Business Times
For the first time, a woman will head a municipal district in Egypt's second-largest city: Soad Helmy was appointed to her new position in Alexandria's central district Saturday, effective immediately, according to Ahram Online, which is majority-owned ...
Governor appoints first woman to head municipality in Egypt's AlexandriaAhram Online

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Egypt celebrates first ferries to cross New Suez Canal - Al-Arabiya Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:51:29 GMT

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Egypt celebrates first ferries to cross New Suez Canal
Al-Arabiya
Two ferries crossed the recently completed New Suez Canal in Egypt on Thursday, making them the first vessels to navigate from the east bank of the canal to the west, Egypt Independent news website reported. Egypt's New Suez Canal will open on Aug.
223 Mln Cubic Meters of Water-Saturated Sand Removed From New Suez CanalAllAfrica.com
Suez Canal: A Disaster In The MakingStepFeed

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5 Amazing Stories About Ancient Egypt That Deserve to be Movies - Vanity Fair Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:51:15 GMT

Vanity Fair

5 Amazing Stories About Ancient Egypt That Deserve to be Movies
Vanity Fair
We've seen stories of ancient Egypt on-screen before—the biblical tale The Prince of Egypt, the extremely long Cleopatra, and the Mummy trilogy, as well as that one episode of Futurama on the possibility of ancient aliens. But have we mined all the ...


Egypt's Quiet Social Revolution - Foreign Policy (blog) Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:39:58 GMT

Foreign Policy (blog)

Egypt's Quiet Social Revolution
Foreign Policy (blog)
But much more important is what's happening among Egypt's silent majority. Here, the opposite trend is becoming clear: Fewer taxi drivers are prominently displaying the Quran in their cars. Hijabs are coming off. And the young revolutionary generation ...

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Lost in the Dust: Egypt's Quarry Workers Face Daily Danger - NBCNews.com Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:23:20 GMT

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Lost in the Dust: Egypt's Quarry Workers Face Daily Danger
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A worker walks near bricks at a quarry in the desert of Minya governorate, south of Cairo, Egypt on May 28, 2015. In the limestone quarries of Minya province, laborers in sandals and makeshift masks use unsheathed rotor blades to gouge the white ...