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Egypt’s Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros II is heading to Vienna to inaugurate several Orthodox churches and give sermons to church members residing in the city.Pope Tawadros II will also attend the first conference for Diaspora churches in Europe.This is the Pope’s second overseas trip since his inauguration in November 2012.Earlier in the month, Pope Tawadros II made a historic visit -
ENPI Info CentreEU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle told MEPs in Stasbourg that the return of misappropriated and frozen assets of senior figures from the former Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan regimes, is of great political importance. “For the people of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya this is a matter of justice and dignity. They want an end -
A 4,000-year-old £2m Egyptian statue is at the centre of a legal row between its owner and the Northamptonshire council that wants to sell it.The statue of Sekhemka was gifted to Northampton's museums by the fourth Marquis of Northampton in about 1880.The borough council plans to sell it and use the money for heritage schemes.The sale has been challenged by Lord Northampton, a descendant of -
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi urged everyone who has weapons in the Sinai Peninsula to hand them over on Wednesday, saying that only the authorities should be armed.He said, "Only the armed forces and the interior ministry should have weapons as stipulated by law."Mursi held a press conference today at Almaza Cairo Airport shortly after receiving the released security personnel who were -
Egypt will introduce a smart card system for subsidised fuel in July and August on a trial basis, Oil Minister Sherif Haddara said at a press conference on Thursday.Using smart cards, consumers will be able to buy a limited amount of subsidised fuel, beyond which they will have to pay market prices. The system is aimed at reducing Egypt's energy subsidy bill by over LE30 billion ($4.28 -
Egypt's benchmark index dropped 1.29 percent by noon in Thursday's session, which saw the return of intra-day trading for the first time in over two years.The ability to buy and sell a particular stock in the same trade session was halted in February 2011 after the popular uprising that swept autocratic president Hosni Mubarak from power. Last Sunday, the Egyptian Stock Exchange had announced -
AFPUS Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday admitted there was scepticism and cynicism about his efforts to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as he made his fourth visit to Israel.Flying in from a night of diplomacy in Amman over the war in Syria, Kerry went straight into talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he pursued his bid to kick-start negotiations frozen -
Assiut Criminal Court has sentenced five to death and another to 10 years prison for killing a priest and stealing his money and golden jewelry.The five were accused of intentionally killing the priest in his home using a knives while another is accused of aiding the killers, allowing them to enter the priest’s home where she worked as a maid.Omar Abdallah, Ali Yousef, Khaled Ali, Badawi -
A North Cairo criminal court on Wednesday acquitted seven Egyptian security personnel who had been accused of firing on unarmed anti-regime protesters during Egypt's January 2011 Tahrir Square uprising.The seven defendants, who include four policemen and three mid-ranking officers, had faced charges of killing at least one protester and injuring another 11 on 28 January 2011 – popularly -
An Egyptian security official has denied media reports that a deal was made with jihadists to secure the release of seven hostages in the Sinai Peninsula.Some media reports claimed Egyptian authorities had agreed to free 18 jailed jihadists in exchange for the hostages, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Wednesday.Seven security personnel were held captive in the Sinai Peninsula for almost
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Egypt’s Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros II is heading to Vienna to inaugurate several Orthodox churches and give sermons to church members residing in the city.Pope Tawadros II will also attend the first conference for Diaspora churches in Europe.This is the Pope’s second overseas trip
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Hardcore football fans of Zamalek football club, who are known as the Ultras White Knights, blocked a vital road on the outskirts of Giza on Wednesday, demanding the release of one of their colleagues who was arrested on Tuesday.Ahmed Shobra, a leading member of the Ultras White Knights, was
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AFPUS Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday admitted there was scepticism and cynicism about his efforts to broker new talks between Israelis and Palestinians, as he made his fourth visit to Israel.Flying in from a night of diplomacy in Amman over the war in Syria, Kerry went straight into
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A 4,000-year-old £2m Egyptian statue is at the centre of a legal row between its owner and the Northamptonshire council that wants to sell it.The statue of Sekhemka was gifted to Northampton's museums by the fourth Marquis of Northampton in about 1880.The borough council plans to sell it and
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The convenient marriage between Iran and the Arab left would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, given the traditional ideological paradoxes between patriarchal Persian Shiism, on the one hand, and leftist orthodoxy on the other.Indeed, a casual viewer of Hizbullah's Al-Manar television, or the Iranian-funded Al-Mayadin TV, these days would probably think that the two Shia propaganda
