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Three leading candidates appeal ban from Egypt's presidential race
Three candidates for the presidency in Egypt have filed appeals against the electoral commission’s decision to disqualify them from the coming election. Their appeals will be reviewed imminently...
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Egyptian presidential race heats up
The Muslim Brotherhood has announced that it is to nominate a candidate, Khairat al-Shater, in Egypt’s upcoming presidential election in late May.
Until the end of March the party had refused...
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The American University in Cairo (AUC) to digitise rare Egyptian manuscripts
The American University in Cairo (AUC) has begun digitising its collections of rare Egyptian manuscripts.
The burning of the historic Egyptian Scientific Institute on 17 December 2011 spurred the A...
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Major foot-and-mouth outbreak in Egypt
A major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease is affecting Egypt, with some 40,000 cases suspected and resulting in the deaths of over 4,600 animals, mostly calves.
Although foot-and-mouth disease has...
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Funeral of Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda held in Cairo
The funeral of Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III took place in St Mark's Cathedral, Cairo on 20 March, three days after he died aged 88. Following his death, thousands of Coptic Christians queued to p...
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Egypt lifts travel ban on US pro-democracy workers
Egypt has lifted a travel ban on US pro-democracy activists, following the 29 February decision to adjourn the trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, which began in Cairo on 26 February.The ban had prohib...
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Egypt lifts travel ban on US pro-democracy workers
Egypt has lifted a travel ban on US pro-democracy activists, following the 29 February decision to adjourn the trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, which began in Cairo on 26 February.
The ban had pr...
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Cairo trial of pro-democracy workers adjourned
The trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, including 16 Americans, which began in Cairo on 26 February, has been adjourned for two months.
The defendants are charged with operating without licenses an...
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Egypt plans to sign a loan agreement worth $3.2 billion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the country
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NGO pro-democracy activists set for trial
The trial of 43 pro-democracy workers including up to 16 American citizens, charged with operating without licenses and receiving illicit funding, has been set for 26 February.
Amid increasingly s...
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Predictions that Cairo's annual book fair would not open again this year have proved groundless. Last year this well-attended international publishing event had to be cancelled because of the violence...
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14 people have died in the latest clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo.
The violence, which began on 16 December in the streets around the central Tahrir Square, continues four...
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Islamist parties are leading so far in initial, partial results from Egypt's parliamentary elections, according to the Egyptian judges charged with overseeing the counting, some of whom spoke to the A...
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Egyptian cabinet offers to resign
Egypt's interim cabinet offered to resign on the night of Monday 21 November. The move followed three days of violent clashes in Cairo and other cities between the security forces and protesters, whi...
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20 people have been killed and 1,750 wounded in ongoing clashes between riot police and some 3,000 protesters in Cairo
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Egyptian parliamentary elections are scheduled to begin on 28 November. An estimated 50 million Egyptians are eligible to vote for the roughly 50 parties and more than 5,000 independent candidates vyi...
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Japan to finance Cairo’s fourth metro line
Japan has granted Egypt a long-term loan of $1.2 billion to fund the planned fourth underground metro line in Cairo, following the Egyptian government
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Cairo withdraws from hosting Olympic event
The Egyptian Football Association has pulled out of hosting the African men's football Olympic qualifying tournament which was due to be held in Cairo from 26 November to 10 December.
Egypt told th...
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At least 24 people have been killed and over 200 injured after Coptic Christians clashed with military police in Cairo on 9 October, in the most violent scenes since the uprising that resulted in the...
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Lack of clarity over transfer of power in Egypt
Egypt's interim military rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), could remain in power until the end of 2012 according to a timetable for a transition to elected rule, presented by the...
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Egyptian protestors attack Israeli embassy
The Israeli ambassador to Egypt and most of the embassy staff have flown out of the country in the wake of attacks on the embassy by protestors, which broke out after prayers on Friday.
Only the c...
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Mubarak trial resumes in Cairo
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who is accused of ordering the killing of protesters during Egypt
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Egypt walls off Israeli embassy in Cairo
Egyptian has erected a 2.5m high concrete wall around Israel's embassy in the city of Giza, in the western suburbs of Cairo, amid escalating tensions between the two countries. The governor of Giza, A...
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Tourism in Egypt dropped 28 per cent from January to July 2011 according to the latest figures from the Egyptian Tourism Authority (ETA).
In the wake of the revolution that ousted President Mubara...
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Mubarak present at first day of Cairo trial
On the opening day of his trial in Cairo ex-president Hosni Mubarak has denied charges of corruption and ordering to kill protestors during the uprising that ousted his regime in February 2011.
D...
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Some 300 people have been reported injured in violent clashes in Cairo on 23 July after crowds of 5,000 protestors called for democracy and an end to the rule of the military council appointed after t...
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Cairo’s Southern Sudanese community celebrates independence
Cairo's community of Southern Sudanese residents celebrated the birth of their new nation on 9 July. The expatriates and economic migrants from Africa's newest state, many of whom have lived in Cairo...
