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CBC owner, director to be interrogated in Bassem Youssef case

22 Apr 2013
The owner and executive director of the private satellite TV channel CBC will be interrogated by the public prosecutor’s office on Wednesday regarding controversial content aired on comedian Bassem Youssef’s show, Al-Bernameg....
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Update: Morsy will protect judiciary from assault, says president's office

22 Apr 2013
President Mohamed Morsy’s office issued a statement late Monday night regarding Morsy’s meeting with members of the Supreme Judicial Council, presided over by Mohamed Momtaz Metwaly at the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace in...
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Update: Army denies reports that govt will oversee its commercial activities

Ahmed Ali, spokesperson of the Armed Forces
22 Apr 2013
The spokesperson for the Armed Forces denied reports that the army had agreed to allow the Central Auditing Organization (CAO) and other regulatory bodies to oversee all their commercial activities in a statement posted on his Facebook...
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ElBaradei: NSF won't take part in elections unless demands are met

Egyptian opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei leaves his office, Cairo, January 14, 2012. The ex-head of the UN nuclear watchdog and Nobel laureate announced he would not run for the Egyptian presidency, saying there is still no real democracy in the country.
22 Apr 2013
Dostour Party founder and National Salvation Front leader Mohamed ElBaradei warned that despite previous assurances, the NSF would not necessarily participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections without clear guarantees for their...
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Prosecution keeps file open on Azhar grand sheikh

File photo of Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayyeb.
22 Apr 2013
Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah approved on Monday the Supreme State Funds Prosecution’s decision to keep a file open regarding charges filed against Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, who was accused of squandering public...
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PM: Cabinet reshuffle to take place next week

Egypt's President Mohamed Morsy (L) meets with Water Minister Hesham Qandil at the presidential palace, Cairo, 22 July 2012. Mursi has asked Kandil, a relatively young water minister little known outside Egypt, to form a new government, disappointing investors who had hoped for a high-profile economy specialist. Picture taken July 22, 2012.
22 Apr 2013
A reshuffle of the Cabinet will be done early next week, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said in remarks carried on state newspaper Al-Ahram's website on Monday, but he declined to give details on which ministries will be affected....
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Egypt still mediating Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, assures official

A handout picture released by the Hamas Press Office shows Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (C-L) shaking hands with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (C-R), Cairo, May 4, 2011, during a reconciliation ceremony that ended a nearly four-year feud but has angered Israel.
22 Apr 2013
Fatah and Hamas reaffirmed their partnership with Egypt in negotiating a Palestinian reconciliation, and denied asking Turkey to mediate in this issue, government representatives said on Monday. The state-run newspaper Al-Ahram had quoted...
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Doctors Syndicate urges release of Egyptian prisoners in Isreal

Israeli anti-riot policemen detain a Palestinian boy during a protest in Aida refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on November 16, 2012.
22 Apr 2013
The Doctors Syndicate released a statement Monday urging President Mohamed Morsy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to exert every effort to secure the release of Egyptian prisoners in Israeli jails, claiming some of them had already been...
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Egypt says Russia to help revive nuclear program

The construction site of the Egyptian nuclear reactor in Western desert in Dabaa town in Marsa Matrouh
22 Apr 2013
Russia will help Egypt develop its nuclear power program, Trade and Industry Minister Hatem Saleh said on Monday, signaling that the Islamist-led state will press ahead with its quest for atomic energy. Egypt froze its nuclear program...
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Kefaya launches petition against Morsy

The Egyptian movement for change(Kefaya)organizes big demonstration which witnesses participation of several opponent powers ,Reviving the fifth anniversary of launching Kefaya's demonstrations
22 Apr 2013
The opposition Kefaya movement has launched a public campaign to collect signatures from citizens to withdraw confidence from President Mohamed Morsy, arguing that he had “turned away from the objectives of the  25 January...
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