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Leftist, revolutionary groups to mobilize for May Day

A foam-made skeleton laid inside a coffin bearing a quip that reads:
24 Apr 2013
Leftist forces, revolutionary movements and trade unions are planning a million-strong demonstration to mark May Day. The demonstration, titled “alarm,” will protest the Muslim Brotherhood’s economic policies, workers...
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Mubarak's detention extended for 15 days

Ousted President Hosni Mubarak on stretcher during moving him from Maadi Military Hospital to Tora Prison, Cairo, 16 July 2012. Egypt's public prosecutor ordered that Mubarak be moved back to prison after an improvement in his health which meant he no longer needed to stay in a military hospital, the state news agency reported.
24 Apr 2013
Former President Hosni Mubarak has been ordered detained an additional 15 days pending further investigation into graft charges, according to a ruling by the Illicit Gains Authority. The authority’s judicial committee held the...
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Administrative Court: Nile University has right to facilities

24 Apr 2013
The Supreme Administrative Court has ordered the Nile University to be transformed into a non-profit institution and emphasized the university’s rights over its buildings and land, according to Mohamed Sultan, the media spokesperson...
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Trade and industry minister seeks closer Egypt-Saudi ties

24 Apr 2013
Trade and Industry Ministry Hatem Saleh said Egypt and Saudi Arabia are seeking to further develop ties in different fields, and highlighted a planned rail link between the two countries as an example of closer relations. During a speech...
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April 6 protests in Alexandria for release of political detainees

Suez canal which links between Red sea and Mediterranean
24 Apr 2013
  The April 6th Youth Movement's Ahmed Maher Front continued its week-long protest Tuesday in solidarity with detained activists. The protest took place took place inside the Suez Canal tunnel in Shatby. The campaign began a week...
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Gang rape convicts get reduced sentences on appeal

24 Apr 2013
Kafr al-Sheikh Criminal Court reduced the sentences of eleven convicted rapists Tuesday, handing them prison terms on appeal instead of the death penalty. The men were convicted in 2010 and sentenced to death for abducting a woman at...
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Israeli prisoner in Egypt petitions for international intervention

Israeli ID card of Ouda Tarabin, Israeli Bedouin.
24 Apr 2013
Ouda Tarabin, an Israeli citizen imprisoned in Egypt since 2000 on espionage charges, accused his country of betraying its pledge to work for his release, claiming that Israeli officials know he is innocent. In a letter to the Israeli...
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Health Ministry raises alert in Damietta as more mumps cases emerge

Children are on their way to school, to start new academic year, Luxor, 15 September 2012.
24 Apr 2013
Health Ministry officials in Damietta warned residents on Wednesday as four new suspected mumps cases were reported at a primary school in Shata city. The provincial ministry department north of Cairo said it immediately imposed...
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Pentagon chief heads to Egypt in Mideast tour

Former US Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be Defense Secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 31, 2013. Hagel, 66, is a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a former two-term Republican senator.
24 Apr 2013
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel travels to Egypt Wednesday as part of a Middle East tour designed to bolster America's alliances amid growing concern over the fallout from Syria's roiling civil war. In his first trip to the...
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Cathedral attack investigators fail to charge perpetrators as yet

23 Apr 2013
  A fact-finding mission tasked with investigating the attack on St. Marks' Coptic Orthodox Cathedral has not identified any of the perpetrators as yet.    In a report released Tuesday, members of the mission said no...
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