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The state-run al-Ahram daily of Sunday quoted Mumtaz al-Said as saying that sum would be disbursed
CAIRO (Reuters) - The average yield on 273-day Egyptian treasury bills inched down at an auction on Sunday, and the central bank sold all the bills it was offering, the Finance Ministry said on its website. The average yield on the T-bills edged down to
A Palestinian boy waves a Palestinian flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip February 18, 2012. The Gaza Strip's only power station, which supplies the... View Photo »
If the United States continues meddling in Egypt, Libya and the Middle East, we will quit supplying 7-11 and Motel 6 managers. If this action does not provide sufficient results, cab drivers and call center personnel will be next.
All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (AP) CAIRO Egypt's finance minister says Cairo expects to sign a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund for $3.2 bi
The Associated Press | CAIRO Egypt's finance minister says Cairo expects to sign a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund for $3.2 billion next month. The state-run al-Ahram daily of Sunday quoted Mumtaz al-Said as saying that sum would be
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Egyptian protesters and Syrians living in Egypt wave the pre-Baath Syrian flag as they shout slogans calling for the expulsion of the Syrian ambassador during a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in Cairo February 17, 2012. Human rights groups say... View Photo »
Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the most significant step yet in the religious movement’s rise since the start of the Arab Spring.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has recalled its Ambassador to Syria Shawky Ismail, the Egyptian Al-Ahram website said on Sunday. Egyptians have held demonstrations lately, demanding a recall of the Egyptian ambassador from Syria in protest against the Syrian g
Egypt (Egyptian: Km.t ; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ Kīmi ; Arabic: مصر Miṣr ; Egyptian Arabic: Máṣr), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers (386,560 square miles), Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and... Full Article
Egyptian soldiers and police guard the entrance as a an election volunteer (R) organises the queue waiting to cast their ballot in the run-off of the first round of voting in the Cairo neighbourhood of Zamalek on December 5, 2011. Islamist candidates in Egypt looked to extend their...
View Photo »An Egyptian woman, top center, uses a rope to pull a basket of goods from the window of her house, in a neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Arabic writing on the wall reads, "our country needs our efforts."
View Photo »An Egyptian butcher cuts meat in a market in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »Egyptian women walk past a mural supporting the revolution in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »Egyptians collect burnt manuscripts from the destroyed Institute of Egypt in central Cairo on December 19, 2011 after the world-famous centre caught fire during deadly clashes between security forces and protesters. The heavily damaged historic centre for the advancement of scientific...
View Photo »An Egyptian man rests in front of a wall painted with a mural supporting the revolution in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »China's ambassador to Egypt, Song Aiguo (C), leaves at the end of a meeting with the representatives of the UN Security Council member nations on the situation in Syria on February, 13 2012 at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo.
View Photo »An Egyptian couple sits on the bank of the Nile River on the eve of Valentine's Day in Cairo, Egypt Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
View Photo »An Egyptian Army soldier sits atop his armored vehicle in Cairo, Egypt Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has pushed Egypt's sovereign credit ratings deeper into junk status, citing declining foreign reserves and continued unrest.
View Photo »A veiled Egyptian flower vendor, center, follows a couple near Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, the eve of Valentine's Day.
View Photo »Palestinians attend a rally in front of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on February 18, 2012 during a sit-in by dozens of emergency crews and ambulance workers demanding Egypt provide the Gaza Strip with electricity and diesel. Egypt has promised to provide diesel fuel for the...
View Photo »An Egyptian protester sleeps inside his tent in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
View Photo »Egyptian women walk past a wall painted with murals supporting the revolution in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
View Photo »A Palestinian boy waves a Palestinian flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip February 18, 2012. The Gaza Strip's only power station, which supplies the Palestinian enclave with up to...
View Photo »The Arab League Syria group meets in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. The Arab League is considering a proposal Sunday to revive its suspended observer mission in Syria by expanding it to include monitors from non-Arab, Muslim nations and the United Nations, officials from the...
View Photo »An Egyptian street vendor sells juice at Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on February 11, 2012. Student activists held strikes in Egypt to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an increasingly unpopular and defiant military in charge.
View Photo »Cars drive at Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital Cairo on February 11, 2012. Student activists held strikes in Egypt to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an increasingly unpopular and defiant military in charge.
View Photo »An Egyptian student, center right, holds a megaphone for another during a prayer for people killed in clashes with security forces, during a protest as part of a general strike in Cairo University, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Egypt's military rulers have warned that the country...
View Photo »An Egyptian student shouts anti-military slogans during a protest as part of a general strike in Cairo University, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Egypt's military rulers have warned that the country faces conspiracies that seek to topple the state and spread chaos, in a message...
View Photo »CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 11: Students attend the afternoon praying in front of the Cairo University during a protest against the military rulers of the country on February 11, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Today is the first anniversary of the resignation of the former Muhammad Hosni Mubarak...
View Photo »An Egyptian university student uses a megaphone to call for prayer during a protest against the military rule at Cairo University in the Egyptian capital on February 11, 2012. Student activists held strikes in Egypt to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an...
View Photo »CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 11: Students shout slogans in front of the Cairo University during a protest against the military rulers of the country on February 11, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Today is the first anniversary of the resignation of the former Muhammad Hosni Mubarak after his 30-year...
View Photo »An Egyptian student holds the picture of Mohammed Khaled, a youth who went missing in Port Said during deadly football clashes, as hundreds of Cairo University students demonstrate against the military rule at the university campus in the Egyptian capital on February 11, 2012. Student...
View Photo »An Egyptian university student holds a sign reading 'Down with the killers of protesters' as he shouts slogans against the military rule during a demonstration at Cairo University in the Egyptian capital on February 11, 2012. Student activists held strikes in Egypt to mark a year since...
View Photo »Egyptian Lieutenant General Sami Anan (L) greets US General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, upon the latter's arrival for a meeting at the ministry of defence in Cairo on February 11, 2012. Activists called for a day of strikes in Egypt to mark exactly a year...
View Photo »Egyptian soldiers and police guard the entrance as a an election volunteer (R) organises the queue waiting to cast their ballot in the run-off of the first round of voting in the Cairo neighbourhood of Zamalek on December 5, 2011. Islamist candidates in Egypt looked to extend their...
View Photo »If the Islamists do gain power my plan B would be a military coup. Imagine if Egypt becomes another Afghanistan and the Arab Spring becomes an al-Qaeda nightmare.
those who sought to cancel this visit was Dalia Mujahid, a top advisor on Islamic and Arab affairs at the State Department, who is of Egyptian origin. And that ... came at the request of the high command of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who wish to see the US Administration support the Islamist Sunni...
saboteurs blew up Egypt’s gas pipeline to Jordan and Israel on Monday, witnesses and security sources said, a few hours before the country holds its first free election since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February.
These elections give us an opportunity to see who the new faces are that want to rule Egypt through its parliament, and to discern how far the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, the Salafis or the Free Egyptians Party are ready to crystallise democratic practice in Egypt.
If the rulers of Egypt represent the people, they will support the Palestinian cause ... And Hamas did not involve itself in any activities regarding the internal situation in Egypt, so it really has a clean slate.
Egypt should be celebrating int'l stars like Jehane Noujaim, not arresting them ... But glad she's OK.
Ganzouri ... played a key role in improving relations with the IMF and World Bank. So, given the fact that Egypt is in urgent need of external funding from the IMF, or elsewhere, he appears to be an ideal candidate
The White House on Friday threw its weight behind Egypt’s resurgent protest movement, urging for the first time the handover of power by the interim military rulers in the Obama administration’s most public effort yet to steer the course of the Egyptian democracy.
I don't believe the fence will be effective ... As long as they're earning $20 to $30 a month in Cairo versus $1,000 in Israel, they'll continue trying to cross, even if it becomes more difficult. The tunnel industry on the Gaza-Egypt border is a good example of this. I am not sure the Bedouin making th...
They (the Muslim Brotherhood) are very strong in the Egyptian street ... There are now two organized bodies in Egypt, the army and the Muslim Brotherhood, but the Brotherhood is better organized.
The group that murdered former Egyptian President Sadat (who signed the peace treaty with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1979) was a small organization that believed that Sadat had betrayed Egypt when he made peace with Israel ... I never thought that we had a real peace treaty with Egypt, but...
The European Union is deeply concerned about the critical situation in Egypt and condemns the excessive violence committed by the Egyptian authorities against the population
It appears that at the moment, markets appear stuck between a rock and a hard place with many traders unwilling to hold positions through the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday with the risk that something could happen in Europe over that time and political unrest growing in Egypt again
The introduction of Chevrolet Move will help SGMW expand market in Egypt and also seek more opportunities to cover the market in North Africa and Arabia Free Trade Zone. Besides, it also helps SGMW to increase its export volume and further expand the competitiveness of sales and products
Israel is always better off with a military regime, be it in Egypt or in Syria, than the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood ... If the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power, the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt will end.
Israel is always better off with a military regime, be it in Egypt or in Syria, than the rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood ... If the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power, the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt will end.
But as the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt made clear, the enduring cooperation we seek will be difficult to sustain without democratic legitimacy and public consent. We cannot have one set of policies to advance security in the here-and-now and another to promote democracy in a long run that never quite...
It’s Iran sanctions, Egypt and Syria and even Libya today, putting the fear premium into prices, especially ahead of the [U.S. Thanksgiving] holiday
Now there is concern — not just in Israel and in the U.S. but in all the pro-Western states around us — that the military junta will not be able to withstand the pressure and that the Muslim Brotherhood will also dictate how the elections are run and will attract many more votes than predicted in Egypt,...
In the region, all of that could change ... The peace process will be impacted, our alliance with the Egyptian government and military can change, and the Muslim Brotherhood are not going to be only in Egypt, they are going to be across the region.
At the end of the day, it is really the Muslim Brotherhood who are taking advantage of the process and we may end up seeing an Egypt, a few months from now, next year, as an Islamist state
We are torn between two desires, a desire to go back to normality to form a strong government that would lead Egypt and get us out of this turmoil, and the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is bullying all democratic forces and liberal forces
In Egypt the choice is increasingly between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood
Inflation, unemployment, and inequality will continue in the foreseeable future, as neither has a quick-fix solution ... means a new democratic Egypt will remain protest-prone and likely unstable as a result, while the macroeconomic matrix will also likely continue to deteriorate in parallel.
We are torn between two desires, a desire to go back to normality to form a strong government that would lead Egypt and get us out of this turmoil, and the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is bullying all democratic forces and liberal forces by trying to enforce their presence
