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The UAE Secretly Picked Up the Tab for the Egyptian Dictatorship's DC Lobbying - The Intercept Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:54:54 GMT

The Intercept

The UAE Secretly Picked Up the Tab for the Egyptian Dictatorship's DC Lobbying The Intercept In a September 2015 memo to Otaiba, GPG described its work for Egypt as designed to influence both the U.S. government and the “echo chamber” of Washington think tanks and news media in order to influence American policy. The email exchanges ... and more »

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Egypt's bank reserve hike may be precursor of benchmark rate cut - Reuters Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:39:04 GMT

Egypt's bank reserve hike may be precursor of benchmark rate cut Reuters CAIRO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Egypt has raised banks' reserve requirements, tightening monetary policy in the sector in what economists said may permit and signal a cut to benchmark interest rates after three hikes since November. The Central Bank of Egypt ... and more »

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Egypt Has Arrested 33 People After A Pride Flag Display - Refinery29 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 17:53:31 GMT

VICE en_us

Egypt Has Arrested 33 People After A Pride Flag Display Refinery29 While Egypt does not specifically have laws criminalizing homosexuality, BBC notes that authorities often arrest people who are suspected of engaging in consensual homosexual behavior on charges of "debauchery", "immorality" or "blasphemy.". Activists Aren't Backing Down After Egypt's Massive LGBTQ CrackdownVICE en_us Egypt steps up crackdown on homosexuals, arrests 27KWTX Egyptian police using dating apps to find, arrest gay people in new crackdownGlobalnews.ca JURIST -Storypick -African Independent all 21 news articles »

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Archaeologists Find Rare Pet Cemetery In Ancient Egypt - Forbes Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:09:06 GMT

Forbes

Archaeologists Find Rare Pet Cemetery In Ancient Egypt Forbes At the site of Berenike on the Red Sea coast of southern Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burials of nearly 100 complete animal skeletons dating to about 75-150 AD, making it one of the earliest known pet cemeteries. Animal burials are quite common ...

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Why US aid to Egypt is never under threat - Aljazeera.com Tue, 03 Oct 2017 05:52:00 GMT

Aljazeera.com

Why US aid to Egypt is never under threat Aljazeera.com Egyptian businessmen ordered more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades from US rival North Korea in a secret deal last year, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The United Nations described it as the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history ... Egypt Ordered 30000 Weapons From North Korea: ReportU.S. News & World Report North Korea reportedly tried to smuggle 30000 rocket launchers to EgyptBusiness Insider Egypt Reportedly Ordered 30000 Rockets From North Korea in $23m Deal Foiled by USHaaretz VICE News -The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com -Washington Post -US News & World Report all 103 news articles »

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Egypt Expands Crackdown on Gay and Transgender People - New York Times Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:12:00 GMT

New York Times

Egypt Expands Crackdown on Gay and Transgender People New York Times The crackdown has been fueled by social media, where images of the flag-waving were widely shared, and by dating apps and other websites, which the Egyptian police have used to entrap suspected gay and transgender people, activists and officials say. Egypt launches largest LGBT crackdown in more than a decade after rainbow flag incidentThe Independent Egypt 'escalates LGBT crackdown' after rainbow flag displayBBC News Human Rights Groups Urge Egypt to Halt Crackdown on GaysNBCNews.com Eyewitness News -Amnesty International -Human Rights Watch all 127 news articles »

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Assassin's Creed Origins finds new life in a new setting - The Verge Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:00:26 GMT

VentureBeat

Assassin's Creed Origins finds new life in a new setting The Verge By moving to Egypt, as opposed to more cramped, walled-in cities like Paris or Rome, Origins has much more space to breath — and much more space to give players things to do. “For us Egypt is the pyramids, it's Alexandria, it's Memphis, it's the ... Assassin's Creed Origins game director: The vast open world of Egypt is a stage for franchise rebirthVentureBeat Why Cleopatra's Egypt is the historical setting of Assassin's Creed OriginsCritical Hit How Ubisoft excavated ancient Egypt for 'Assassin's Creed Origins' rich environmentDigital Trends all 127 news articles »

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Pope: 'May the Lord protect Egypt, the Middle East and the world from terrorism' - Vatican Radio Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:57:28 GMT

Vatican Radio

Pope: 'May the Lord protect Egypt, the Middle East and the world from terrorism' Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday had a special greeting for an Egyptian delegation led by the country's Tourism Minister, in Rome to promote a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the Holy Family's flight to Egypt. Speaking during the Wednesday ... and more »

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Nigerian badminton players set for Egypt - The Punch Wed, 04 Oct 2017 23:01:12 GMT

Nigerian badminton players set for Egypt The Punch Two Nigerian players, Dorcas Adesokan and Clement Krobakpo, have been scheduled to take part in a training tour organised by the Badminton Confederation of Africa from October 26 to 29 in Cairo, Egypt. According to the president of Badminton ...

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Pre-Dynastic Rock Art Discovered in Egypt - Archaeology Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:09:09 GMT

Archaeology

Pre-Dynastic Rock Art Discovered in Egypt Archaeology ASWAN, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a team of researchers from Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities discovered panels of 15,000-year-old rock art during a survey in the Subeira Valley. The images, carved into sandstone, depict hippopotamuses, wild bulls ... and more »