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Egyptian factories, hit by subsidy cuts, highlight Cairo's fiscal dilemma
Reuters* Brick, cement makers hit first by govt drive to cut energy subsidies * Cairo needs to cut spending but austerity risks more social unrest * Analysts urge Cairo to move quickly to secure IMF loan By Asma Alsharif AL-SAFF, Egypt, May 22 (Reuters) -...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Economy, Business and Finance, Economic Indicator, Cairo (Egypt), Egypt
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IMF says Egypt budget gap worrying, urges Yemen to finalize economic program
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt's worsening fiscal gap is a concern but the International Monetary Fund is still ready to continue talks on a $4.8 billion loan once Cairo completes a review of its economic program, a senior IMF official said. "We are ready to...Tags: Government Debt, Yemen, Economy, Business and Finance, Economic Indicator, Gross Domestic Product
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Supporters of abducted soldiers keep Sinai-Gaza border shut
CAIRO — The families and colleagues of seven Egyptian soldiers who were kidnapped last week in North Sinai kept Egypt’s borders with the Gaza Strip closed Sunday for the third day in a row. Nearly 170 demonstrators have gathered inside the...
Tags: Israel, Fatah, Hamas, Cairo (Egypt), Kidnapping
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Italian court told about Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
ROME -- The Moroccan-born dancer at the center of Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitution trial took the stand in court for the first time Friday, describing how female guests at Berlusconi’s so-called bunga-bunga parties stripped to their underwear...
Tags: Trials, Italy, Milan (Italy), Litigation, Punishment
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Morale hits a new low on Egypt stock market
CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy. But every day Mostafa Ismail, a financial broker with a hangman's demeanor, steps into the Egyptian stock exchange hoping for positive blips. They are rare in a nation where revolution...
Tags: Orascom Group, Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Cairo (Egypt), Religion and Belief, Islam
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Three mistakes Obama has made in Syrian crisis
Syria's dictator, Bashar al-Assad, isn't the only leader who is crossing "red lines" these days. U.S. President Barack Obama has also crossed a few. Here are three of them: 1. He crossed a red line by asserting the existence of a red line that he then...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Religion and Belief, Barack Obama, Iran
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Mubarak back in court; retrial postponed
CAIRO — The retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak was postponed Saturday until June 8 after prosecutors told a Cairo criminal court that they intend to present new evidence of his responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of protesters during...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Cairo (Egypt), Prosecution
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How life (and death) change Egyptian soccer and its American coach
Bob Bradley wasn't looking for an adventure as much as he was looking for a job after being fired as coach of the U.S. soccer team two years ago. But in Egypt he found both. When Bradley arrived in the fall of 2011 to take over Egypt's national soccer...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, FIFA World Cup, Arab Spring, Major League Soccer, Sports
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Egyptian youth movement leader arrested
CAIRO -- Prominent youth activist Ahmed Maher was arrested on Friday as he sought to leave the Cairo international airport, members of his April 6 youth movement said. Maher, who helped lead the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Demonstration, Crimes, Cairo (Egypt)
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American man stabbed outside U.S. Embassy in Cairo
CAIRO — An American man was stabbed by an unidentified assailant outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Thursday, officials said. The reason for the attack was not immediately clear, though Egyptian officials said it did not appear to be politically...Tags: U.S. Embassy, Cairo (Egypt), Prosecution, Egypt
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Global Voices: Ahmadis' mission of peace in an age of terror
This post has been updated and corrected. See the notes below for details.Just weeks after the terrorist bombings at the Boston Marathon, the global leader of the world’s 10-million-plus Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has brought his religion’s message of peace, public service and uplift to the faithful of Southern...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Church and State Relations, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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USAID develops a bad reputation among some foreign leaders
WASHINGTON — When Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development from his impoverished country last week, he complained that Washington "still has a mentality of domination and submission" in the region. It...
Tags: Arab Spring, Crime, Law and Justice, Freedom of the Press, Russia, Polls
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