Egypt

May 20, 2000

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The Moroccan-Egyptian joint trade commission started Friday in Cairo talks aimed at upgrading bilateral trade ties, reported ArabicNews.com Friday.  T

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China and Egypt will jointly build a China industrial park in Egypt on June 1, ArabicNews.com reported Saturday. The project makes an essential part o

May 18, 2000

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The Egyptian Housing Minister, Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Suleiman, disclosed that the state's total investments on populating Sinai hit EP 2.5 billion. EP 1.075 billion was spent on water projects, EP 393

May 17, 2000

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An air traffic control tape-recorded just before the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 was released in Washington Tuesday but shed little light on the trag

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A power struggle broke out Tuesday for the leadership of Egypt's only permitted Islamist party, the Labour Party, which ended up with three rival chai

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Egypt's largest mobile telephone company and a local partner of the French bank Societe Generale announced Tuesday they were joining forces to provide

May 16, 2000

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A five-member Arab league committee charged with reviewing a mechanism of holding an Arab summit is due to meet on June 6, assistant secretary general

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Prosecutors charged a contractor with wrongful death and violation of building regulations in the collapse of an apartment building that killed 16 peo

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The required investment in water and sewage projects for the upcoming four years is estimated at EP 16 billion. This EP 4 billion annual investment will cover 213 cities and regions throughout Egypt,

May 14, 2000

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Sunni Islam's highest authority condemned on Sunday the acts of Muslim extremists holding 21 hostages on a Philippine island, saying Islam rejects all

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At least eleven people died, including a family of four, when their Cairo apartment building collapsed in the early hours of Sunday, security sources

May 13, 2000

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Egypt's senior religious cleric has condemned rumors circulating around the country that Coca-Cola is an enemy of Islam, the weekly newspaper Rose al-

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Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Ebeid will travel to Lebanon Wednesday to open electricity plants that Egypt helped repair after they were bombed by Isra

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Dozens of Egyptian students arrested during a riot over a book they said insulted Islam have been released by the authorities, said BBC.online Saturda

May 12, 2000

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Clerics at Egypt's leading religious university appealed Thursday to President Hosni Mubarak to "purify" the Culture Ministry of those who insult Isla