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Constitution committee continues work in closed session
Date: 2013-11-27 11:43:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:409613
The committee of 50 in charge of rewriting Egypt's constitution continued work in a closed session on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Amr Moussa . Some of the committee members who announced that they were freezing their membership in protest ....
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Iranian president to visit Turkey in December
Date: 2013-11-27 11:42:08 GMT - Turkey - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:409611
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani plans to visit Turkey in December for talks on developing bilateral relations and the Syrian crisis, Hurriyet newspaper reported Wednesday. Talks will take up the agreement between Iran and 5+1 Group on Tehran ....
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Shura protesters assaulted police, defied protest law -- prosecution
Date: 2013-11-27 11:37:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:409597
Protesters who were arrested while demonstrating in front of the Shura Council premises Tuesday are accused of assaulting police and violating the country's new demos law, according to the prosecution on Wednesday. Prosecutor General Hisham ....
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Former minister Zakhari denies plans to join MB government in exile
Date: 2013-11-27 11:28:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:409555
Former Scientific Research Minister Nadia Zakhari denied on Wednesday media reports alleging that she plans to join the government in exile which the Muslim Brotherhood decided to form abroad. Zakhari told MENA she cannot join a government that ....
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Rafah crossing opens for stranded, humanitarian cases
Date: 2013-11-27 10:37:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:409392
Rafah border crossing opened at 9am Wednesday from the Egyptian and Palestinian sides and will be closed on the usual time at 3pm. Stranded travelers and humanitarian cases have already begun transiting after their papers have been processed, an ....
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Egypt cannot sue German archaeologists over Great Pyramid violations - antiquities official
Date: 2013-11-27 09:42:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:409289
An Antiquities Ministry source stressed on Wednesday that Egypt can sue the travel agency tasked with organizing foreigners' visitations to Egypt's Pyramid Plateau and not the three German archaeologists who stole samples from Khufu ....
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Prosecution orders arrest of Ahmed Maher, Alaa Abdel Fattah over Tuesday clashes
Date: 2013-11-27 08:55:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:409158
The Public Prosecution ordered on Wednesday the arrest of activists Alaa Abdel Fattah and Ahmed Maher over charges of instigating Tuesday clashes outside the Shura Council in defiance of the new law regulating demonstrations in Egypt. The ....
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Interior Ministry says 6 April Movement refused to inform authorities of Shura Council protest
Date: 2013-11-27 08:54:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:409056
The Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that it asked founder of the 6 April Movement Ahmed Maher to notify Qasr el-Nile police station before staging a protest outside the Shura Council, but he refused. In a statement, the ministry added that ....
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Retired judge in custody for 4 days over torture charges
Date: 2013-11-27 08:19:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:409078
The prosecution ordered retired judge Mahmoud el-Khodiery to remain in custody for four days over charges of torturing a citizen during the January 25 revolution. El-Khodiery, who was arrested on Monday upon an arrest warrant, faces charges of ....
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Press syndicate warns of withdrawal from constitution panel
Date: 2013-11-27 08:15:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:409069
Hisham Younis, a member of the Syndicate of Journalists, said on Tuesday that all options, including the withdrawal of a constitution-amending panel, are on the table in response to the arrest of a number of journalists and activists outside the ....
