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Egypt's record of torture, disappearances and murder - ABC Online Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:20:11 GMT

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Egypt's record of torture, disappearances and murder
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The 28-year-old Italian PhD student was in Cairo studying the controversial and independent trade union movement, one of the key groups behind the revolution in 2011. Egypt's Interior Ministry has denied responsibility for his death, but a recent New ...

Egypt author Ahmed Naji jailed over explicit novel - BBC News Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:39:16 GMT

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Egypt author Ahmed Naji jailed over explicit novel
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An Egyptian court has sentenced an author to two years in jail after sexually explicit extracts from his novel were published in state media. The case was filed by a private citizen who complained that the passage caused him distress and heart ...
Egypt Jails Author for Two Years over Sexually Explicit NovelVoice of America
Egypt jails author Ahmed Naji for sexually explicit bookThe Guardian
Egypt author jailed for violating 'public modesty'Yahoo News

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Egyptian columnist delivers stinging attack against el-Sissi - Yahoo News Sun, 21 Feb 2016 09:20:23 GMT

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Egyptian columnist delivers stinging attack against el-Sissi
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CAIRO (AP) — A prominent columnist on Sunday delivered the harshest attack to date against Egypt's president in the local media, saying that Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi presided over a "theocracy" that is no different from the Islamist-led government he ...
Egyptian Columnist Calls Egypt a 'Theocracy' in Scathing al-Sissi CritiqueHaaretz
Egypt Business Forum Promotes Key African TiesAllAfrica.com

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Japanese government to back solar plant in Egypt - Chicago Tribune Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:21:44 GMT

Japanese government to back solar plant in Egypt
Chicago Tribune
CAIRO - The Japanese government has decided to offer a yen loan of about 10 billion yen (about $88,829,700) to support construction of a gigantic solar power plant with a large-capacity storage battery system in Egypt. A large-capacity storage battery ...

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Government to back solar plant in Egypt - The Japan News Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:30:54 GMT

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Government to back solar plant in Egypt
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Egypt is expected to hold a public tender open only to Japanese compa-nies with advanced battery technology. The government hopes this will give the Japanese firms a leg up in the rapidly expanding renewable energy markets in the Middle East and North ...

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Egypt to float United Bank of Egypt - c.bank governor - Reuters Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:51:00 GMT

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Egypt to float United Bank of Egypt - c.bank governor
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The state owns vast swathes of the economy, including three of its largest banks - National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr and Banque Du Caire - along with much of its oil industry and real estate. (Reporting by Ahmed Tolba and Ahmed Aboulenein; editing by ...
Egypt signs $500 mln facility agreement with Afreximbank to ease FX shortageReuters Africa
Egypt won't float currency until FX reserves reach at least $25 bln: CBE GovernorAhram Online
Egypt to float United Bank of EgyptTHE BUSINESS TIMES

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Egypt to try policeman over driver's killing - News24 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 20:41:44 GMT

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Egypt to try policeman over driver's killing
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Cairo - A policeman is to stand trial for murder after a driver was shot dead in a dispute over a fare, the Egyptian prosecutor's office said on Sunday, as public concern rises over police abuses. Mustafa Mahmud is alleged to have shot dead Mohamed Ali ...
Insecurity under Egypt's 'security' forcesOpen Democracy
Egypt puts on trial policeman who shot driver dead in the streetChannel News Asia

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How Egypt's changing culture led one emigre to Trump - Yahoo News Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:26:20 GMT

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How Egypt's changing culture led one emigre to Trump
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The Egyptian-born businessman who came to the United States in 1981 and became a citizen two decades later said in an interview on Friday that he was alarmed by changes in Egypt, where, in his view, high unemployment and poverty have driven many ...

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Egypt MPs warn harsh economic measures could spark street protests - Ahram Online Sun, 21 Feb 2016 13:25:35 GMT

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Egypt MPs warn harsh economic measures could spark street protests
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Mohamed Zeineddin, an MP affiliated with the Support Egypt parliamentary bloc, said that "while MPs are aware of the current dollar crisis which led Egypt's import bill to spiral out of control and exert huge pressure on the country's foreign exchange ...

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For first time in Egypt, UNICEF uses click-funding to seek higher donations for its campaign - Daily News Egypt Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:58:05 GMT

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For first time in Egypt, UNICEF uses click-funding to seek higher donations for its campaign
Daily News Egypt
The ultimate dream for more than 7 million people in Egypt is to have clean accessible water to use and drink, a dream that UNICEF Egypt is trying to achieve. For the first time in Egypt, UNICEF started using click- funding in its campaign “Water for ...

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