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Suez Canal revenue up 7 pct in year to Jan
CAIRO: Revenue from Egypt's Suez Canal rose 7 percent in the year to January, the Egyptian Information Portal website showed on Thursday. Revenue rose to $445.8 million in January from $416.6 million in January 2011, the website said. Revenue in (...)

09 - 02 - 2012
Islamists seen winning near two-thirds of seats following final round results
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it had won at least 41 percent of the seats in Egypt's lower house of parliament, with Islamists of various stripes occupying almost two thirds of the assembly so far. Banned under deposed President (...)

08 - 01 - 2012
Court frees five police over protester deaths
CAIRO: The Cairo Criminal Court cleared five police officers on Thursday of criminal charges over the killing of five protesters in El-Sayeda Zeinab during the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February. Families of the dead who (...)

29 - 12 - 2011
Ganzoury says will not hold finance portfolio
CAIRO: Egypt's new prime minister, Kamal El-Ganzoury, said on Thursday he had no intention of taking on the finance portfolio in a cabinet he promised to have fully formed by Saturday. The independent Al-Masry Al-Youm daily, on its Facebook page (...)

02 - 12 - 2011
Egypt gets $400 mln from Islamic trade financier
CAIRO: The trade financing arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has offered $400 million to help Egypt finance imports of petroleum products, wheat and other foodstuffs, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported on Saturday. The funds were (...)

08 - 11 - 2011
Fire on Red Sea ferry, passengers take to lifeboats
CAIRO: Passengers were forced to escape on lifeboats when a fire broke out on a ferry carrying more than 1,200 passengers from the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba to Egypt on Thursday, a maritime official said. The official from Egypt's Red Sea (...)

03 - 11 - 2011
Arab League body wants to suspend Syria, Yemen membership
CAIRO: An Arab parliamentary body called on Tuesday for suspending the membership of Syria and Yemen in the Arab League to put pressure on the two countries to heed popular demands for reforms. An Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on (...)

21 - 09 - 2011
Court sentences steel magnate to 10 years for graft
CAIRO: The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced steel magnate Ahmed Ezz and former industrial development chief Amr Assal to 10 years in prison and a joint fine of LE 660 million ($110.9 million) for corruption under ex-president Hosni (...)

15 - 09 - 2011
Egypt court clears ex-TV chief of corruption charges
CAIRO: A Cairo court on Thursday cleared the former head of Egypt's television and radio union, Osama El Sheikh, of charges of squandering public funds by purchasing entertainment shows at inflated prices, the state news agency MENA said. The (...)

09 - 09 - 2011
Court orders freeze of steel tycoon's assets
CAIRO: A Cairo court has issued an order to freeze all assets of Egyptian steel magnate Ahmed Ezz, a close associate of ousted President Hosni Mubarak who is also being investigated for graft, state news agency MENA reported on (...)

04 - 09 - 2011
Ten Kuwaiti lawyers to help defend Mubarak
CAIRO: Ten Kuwaiti lawyers will join the defense team for Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak in his trial on charges of corruption and authorizing the killing of protesters, the state news agency MENA said on Friday. The Kuwaitis will be (...)

02 - 09 - 2011
Libya's Moammar Qaddafi vows to fight on
CAIRO: Libya's Moammar Qaddafi called on his supporters to set Libya alight, vowed that his backers would not give up and said those against him were divided, Arabic news channels reported on Thursday. "Let there be a long fight and let Libya be (...)

01 - 09 - 2011
Arab League to hold urgent meeting on Syria
CAIRO: Arab ministers will hold an urgent meeting on Saturday to discuss the bloodshed in Syria, an Arab League official said, but a delegate to the regional body played down the chances of foreign intervention. The United Nations says 2,200 (...)

24 - 08 - 2011
Election preparations to start Sept 18
CAIRO: Preparations for Egypt's parliamentary elections will begin on Sept. 18 and the vote will be overseen by one of the country's top judges, state TV and an army source said on Monday, citing the ruling military council. "The High Electoral (...)

18 - 07 - 2011
Egypt gas pipeline to Israel to be ready by weekend
CAIRO: Repairs on an Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Israel and Jordan are expected to be completed by the end of the week, the state's MENA news agency reported on Sunday. The pipeline was blown up on July 4 in the third attack of its kind (...)

10 - 07 - 2011
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