Wed 23 May 2012
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22 May 2012
Secretary General of the Presidential Elections Commission Hatem Bagato said Tuesday that ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his son, Gamal, have the right to vote in the presidential election.
Bagato, speaking to Al-Masry Al-Youm, said...
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22 May 2012
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Fayza Abouelnaga said on Tuesday that the Cabinet is meeting on Wednesday to monitor the presidential election.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Adel Abdel Hamid is forming an operations room...
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22 May 2012
Libyan authorities opened fire on the Egyptian "Eagle of the East" fishing boat, owned by Farid Farfara of Kafr El-Sheikh governorate. The authorities detained 12 fishermen, four of whom were critically wounded.
Chief fisherman...
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22 May 2012
Public prosecutors are conducting investigations into a number of complaints submitted by the Presidential Elections Commission against certain candidates who allegedly violated the rules for campaigning.
Disqualified candidate Hazem Salah...
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22 May 2012
Mahmoud al-Zahar, the former foreign minister in the Hamas government, has arrived in Ismailia to cast his vote in the Egyptian presidential elections.
The Hamas official, who lost his son in the 2008 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, has...
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22 May 2012
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces member General Mohamed al-Assar said that the armed forces will secure the presidential elections process with more than 150,000 officers and soldiers. He added that 11,000 vehicles, including planes,...
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22 May 2012
Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri met on Tuesday with former US President Jimmy Carter, who heads an NGO that will monitor Egypt’s presidential election set to begin on Wednesday, the first such contest since the ouster of...
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22 May 2012
Minya Governorate will collaborate with the National Council for Women to allocate LE450,000 to a Minya village to raise awareness about the dangers of female genital mutilation and improve residents’ living conditions, according to...
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22 May 2012
A member of Jamaa Islamiya's consultancy council, Tarek al-Zomor, has claimed that the group had detected “highly-professional methods” being adopted to rig the presidential elections which will kick off on Wednesday....
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22 May 2012
The Court of Cassation upheld an earlier verdict by the Cairo Criminal Court which had sentenced the Maadi police investigations chief to 10 years in prison and six other officers in his department to seven years over charges of torturing...
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