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9 dead as a three-way commemoration of 3rd revolution anniversary turns bloody.
Death toll in clashes on the third anniversary of 25 January revolution has risen to nine, Egypt's health ministry...
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Me too Grandad, all that I knew has gone, (except AWOL is still working ). . . Poor Keefy. he deserves a medal for endurance. Cannot see the point in living in a crap country where life means so...
Three separate bomb attacks took place in Greater Cairo on Friday morning, killing at least five people and injuring dozens of others, on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled...
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I get that people can all have different political beliefs and I get it that groups have different philosophical ideas as to what works best for the majority but I honestly don't follow these...
Egypt's poor families need permanent aid, subsidy system needs flexibility.
Egypt’s newly appointed assistant to the minister of finance, Sherine Al-Shawarbi, said that the country’s families living...
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I hope the help is true help and doesn't start to enable people to give up their own personal efforts to achieve WHICH I believe if very prevalent here. I believe we, as a society, started out with...
98% of votes in 25 governorates in favour of draft constitution.
Below (picture) are the aggregated vote counts of 25 governorates out of 27.
Vote results in Cairo, the most populated Egyptian...
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Gee Grandad - I'm positive I wrote an answer to this yesterday, came back to see if what is up today and 'poop' what I'm sure I wrote isn't here........ahh well - not that it was Pulitzer prize...
Voters turned out across Egypt on Tuesday for the first day of a nationwide constitutional referendum. The newly-amended charter, widely expected to replace the previous one from 2012, which had been...
When an early British sea plane, the S.80, made a three-month expedition south down the Nile in 1914, the mechanic was unnamed in the newspaper reports. But the adventure's success depended on his...
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I was listening to a radio item a few days ago about this very thing, apparently there was also a (I think French) aircraft that made the same flight in a lot less time because it had an...
Deadly bombings hit the Daqahliya security directorate early on Tuesday in Mansoura, Nile Delta, killing 12 and injuring 134 in what seems to be the worst terrorist attack yet since the ouster of...
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Am actually amazed that more people have not been injured. Sooner or later a whole bunch of tourists will be targeted and then the trickle will dry up for ever more. I don't want to sound doom and...
The hype surrounding Ikea has been building since it was announced in 2010 that the Swedish chain was planning to open a store in Cairo. It took three years of growing anticipation, and now the Fifth...
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We don't have an Ikea here and I've never been inside any of their stores. My own personal style I'd describe as Victorian eclectic. I prefer real wood, antiques - old stuff ;) Not that Ikea doesn't...
Tourism bosses are hopeful the creation of a new high council for tourism could be a magic pill for Egypt’s beleaguered tourism sector, both in times of crisis and when conditions are good.
The...
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I think you may be correct about that LLL, it is all a bit stale and same old, same old which is fine for the more discerning traveller who is only interested in culture, but after a while it becomes...
Egypt is joining the global rush toward sources of renewable energy in an effort to manage the country’s growing industrial and household energy needs. The energy crisis has escalated in recent...
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I have no idea of the costs or work involved and I'm sure it is more than a few quid - BUT - what about desalinization plants?
The USA has nuclear warships that have desalinization capability (i.e....
A referendum on the new charter is expected to be held in January, paving the way for presidential and parliamentary elections. It would replace the controversial constitution approved by referendum...
Two buildings collapse in Egypt's coastal city within hours, leaving two dead.
A second building collapsed in Alexandria on Monday, hours after a residential apartment building fell in another area...
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Nothing much inside some of those high rises was square or complete. Granted you couldn't hear your neighbours but - wow - the construction of lots of those builds sure wasn't good. I swear going...
Street children: Gender matters - By Amira El Feky
There are children in the streets of Egypt. Although we see them every day, we do not know all that much about them, except what is obvious to our...
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Pretty sad commentary on street children in that it seems there really isn't any understanding of their plight, nowhere for them really to turn and the difference of how girls and boys are treated is...
Egypt's administrative court ordered on Tuesday that the state of emergency be lifted at 4 pm this afternoon, and not on Thursday as was previously announced by the cabinet.
The court also rejected...
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I'm curious about the countdown too especially since it is a year plus into the future.
Protesters destroyed Tahrir Square memorial early Tuesday morning, hours after its inauguration by the Prime minister and other government officials.
They broke the plate holding the prime...
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Definitely lots of anger there.
Not that I'm against the building of memorials but until everything settles down my guess would be it is a bit dicey as a memorial is almost like waving a red flag at...
Construction of a new memorial in the center of Tahrir Square dedicated to the martyrs of the 25 January and 30 June uprisings has stirred controversy among critics.
Approved by the Cairo governor,...
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Tahrir Square is ridiculously busy all the time. Traffic is (don't know exactly) but about 9 lanes deep. Filling up that square with more stuff probably isn't the best idea. Make the memorials but...
Egyptians have longed for a hero to boost national pride, but since the arrival of General Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, some Egyptians seem to have gotten carried away, allowing “Sisi fever” to sweep them...
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