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News Source: Egypt News
| about 1 year ago
Bowing to pressure from the opposition, Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy announced Sunday that the government will revise its natural gas export prices and will not sign new exportation contracts until the end of 2010. Since the latest energy price...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held talks on Monday with his visiting Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on the latest developments of the Palestinian-Israeli talks and inter-Palestinian relations...On Wednesday, Abbas said he is ready to talk...
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News Source: Zawya Political
| about 1 year ago
Egypt's population could more than double to reach 160 million by 2050, hindering social and economic development unless something is done about the "urgent" problem, President Hosni Mubarak warned on Monday. Mubarak, who has in the past blamed...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday urged his nationals to be aware of overpopulation in the populous Arab country. Addressing the opening ceremony of the second national conference on population which broadcasted live by the Nile TV...
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News Source: AKI
| about 1 year ago
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was scheduled to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday to discuss relations with the rival Hamas faction and Israel. Officials in Ramallah said at the weekend that Abbas was planning to visit...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Abbas, who will arrive in Cairo later on Sunday, is expected to discuss with Mubarak the efforts aiming at reaching a truce between various Palestinian movements and Israel, Palestinian ambassador to Egypt Nabil Amr was quoted as saying. The two...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| about 1 year ago
Egypt's Parliament on Saturday outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM) except in cases of "medical necessity," a condition which could undermine the ban, parliamentary sources said. FGM, which dates back to pharaonic times in Egypt, will now be...
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News Source: Asian Age
| about 1 year ago
The new legislation, passed on Saturday, imposes a jail penalty of three months two years or a fine between $190 and $940 on any one practising female circumcision, the official al-Ahram newspaper said. Being a part of the child’s rights bill, the...
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News Source: Kuwait Times
| about 1 year ago
The Kuwaiti-Egyptian Committee, presided by the foreign ministers of the two countries, is expected to discuss in its upcoming meeting a proposal for the establishment of an independent consular affairs committee, an Egyptian official said Saturday.
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Egyptian parliament on Saturday approved a law to ban female circumcision except in cases of "medical necessity," according to an amendment of a bill on children's rights. Those who practice the procedure will be punished by a jail term of three...