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The main news item in all daily papers Sunday is the deadly bus-train collision which left at least 50 school children dead in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut on Saturday, as well the public prosecutor’s ongoing investigations into...
Families and friends of Egyptian detainees languishing in Saudi prisons launched an open-ended sit-in outside the kingdom’s embassy in Giza and its consulate in Alexandria on Monday. In Giza, dozens of family members, friends and activists are...
A crowd of over 1,000 people attended an event near the Interior Ministry on Saturday night to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Essam Atta — known as “the Martyr of Egypt’s Military Trials” — and to launch a...
Nearly 1,000 striking doctors escalated their protest by forming a human chain from the Doctors Syndicate to the Health Ministry in downtown Cairo on Thursday, while hundreds of political activists joined them in a show of solidarity. But some...
The top developments in Monday’s papers include the vote for the three finalists in the Coptic papal lottery, which will determine Pope Shenouda III’s successor; a massive oil spill in the Upper Egypt Nile waters that has affected three...
Five male members of an atheist group congregate in one of Cairo’s crowded downtown bars, sipping beer and Pepsi as they discuss their thoughts on religion, sex, science, culture, politics and Egypt’s new ruling regime.
This group...
While workers at the Ain Sokhna Port called off their 12-day long strike and returned to work on Wednesday after reaching a settlement with the Dubai Ports World company, the Ministry of Manpower, Suez Governorate, and the presidential envoy, the...
Topping the headlines in Monday’s papers are three main news items: President Mohamed Morsy’s naval adventures aboard a military frigate in commemoration of the 1967 sinking of the Israeli destroyer Eilat; throngs of protesters...
In a historic development, two independent workers’ groups and several political parties joined forces on Monday to establish the National Front for the Defense of Labor Rights and Union Liberties.
The goals of the front include the...
Hundreds rallied outside the Alexandria Court of Appeals on Sunday as five labor activists appealed the harshest sentence against striking workers since the time of ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s predecessor, Anwar Sadat.
The court moved to...
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