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Egyptian parliament extends controversial emergency law Egyptian parliament on Monday acted swiftly on a request by President Hosni Mubarak and extended the country's emergency law, a lawmaker said, despite the president's 2005 campaign promise to abolish...
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Netanyahu told the president he believes Hamas is a mutual enemy of both Israel and Egypt, and that Egypt should work towards ending the smuggling across its border into Gaza. "Israel will have no choice but to overthrow Hamas' rule," said Netanyahu,...
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An Egyptian television agency boss was charged in court on Monday after he helped broadcast images of protesters tearing down portraits of President Hosni Mubarak during deadly food riots in early April. Nader Gohar, who owns the Cairo News Company, was...
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Steep rises in taxes on cigarettes and vehicle licences and a reduction in fuel subsidies have been passed by the Egyptian parliament. The changes will be used to cover the cost of a 30 per cent pay rise for public-sector workers announced by the president...
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Egyptian activists failed Sunday for the second time in a month to rally the public to down tools in a general strike to send a message of protest to President Hosni Mubarak on his 80th birthday about price hikes and curbs to their freedom. After weeks...
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Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, celebrates his 80th birthday on Sunday, amid a wave of discontent as well as a call for Egyptians to stay at home in protest against price increases and alleged human rights abuses. As official news outlets praised...
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Israel must cooperate in this “critical phase” to achieve the goal of a peace treaty by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Friday. Aboul Gheit was in London to attend the International Donors’ Conference for the Palestinian state...
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Aisha Abdel-Hadi, minister of labour and immigration, and Hussein Megawer, chairman of the Syndicates Union, both hailed the raise as an important socio-economic step. Workers and civil servants interviewed across the nation by state-run media expressed...
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0 Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak proposed yesterday a salary increase of about 30 per cent for public-sector employees to compensate them for recent large increases in prices, especially of food. "It will be about 30 per cent," Mubarak said in...
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France sees Egypt as an important part in the planned union for the Mediterranean. Sarkozy's advisor Henri Guaino said earlier this year in Cairo that Egypt was an "essential, decisive and necessary" partner for the proposed union. Accompanied by his...
Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, France-Syria, Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian, Jean-David Levitte, Mediterranean Union, Paris, French, Lebanon, levitte told