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Government tasked to apply maximum wage: Mehleb
Upcoming state budget seeks to apply financial and economic reforms
Industries Union demands favoring domestic industries in government procurement
By Abdel Qader Ramadan The Federation of Industries is demanding support for domestic industry that includes 40% or more local components by giving them the slogan “Made in Egypt,” and granting them a range of benefits. These will include preferential treatment for government procurement tenders, export subsidies, and customs exemptions provided by trade agreements signed …
Activist Ahmed Douma’s trial postponed
Delay for court to investigate confiscated material
Nazra condemns targeting, detention of women’s rights activists
Group says arrests due to women’s legitimate activities in the defense of human rights.
Mauritanian leader wins new term as main rivals boycott polls
The former general campaigned strongly on his success in fighting armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda at home and in neighbouring Sahel nations.
Kerry in Iraq as Sunni militants seize strategic town, airport
Kerry met with Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and was to hold talks with Iraqi leaders across the political and communal spectrum.
Israel launches air raids on Syrian positions in Golan
The air raids came after the 13-year-old son of an Israeli defence ministry contractor was killed on the Golan on Sunday morning.
24 sentenced to life imprisonment in Mansoura for killing taxi driver
Court specialising in terrorism cases sentences the two dozen, allegedly associated to the banned Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt returns to African Union activity
Foreign minister leads delegation to in first African Union activity since suspension lift
Minya verdict ‘heinous crime unprecedented in history’: MB
Brotherhood hits back at judiciary over death sentence for 183 alleged Islamists
Britain summons Egyptian ambassador over Jazeera verdicts
Two British journalists working for the network were handed 10-year sentences.
Update: Harsh sentences for Al Jazeera journalists
Fahmy, Greste and Mohmed handed long-term jail sentences
Bad traffic costs Cairenes
Congested roads costs Egypt EGP 47bn yearly, according to a new World Bank report
Open letter to African Union heads of state
More than 10 years have passed since the Maputo Declaration, in which you, asAfrican leaders committed to allocating at least 10% of national budgets to agriculture and rural development – key sectors in the drive to cut poverty, build inclusive growth and strengthen food security and nutrition.
Egypt fails to make the cut in top 20 Arab Companies list: Forbes Middle East
Country was fourth largest contributor to Top 500 companies in the Arab World’s list, Forbes Middle East indicated
Furniture exports register EGP1.1bn, reaching EGP 2.8bn by end of 2014
Sector exports have increased steadily over the past four years.
US committed to supporting Egypt in economy and security: Kerry
Kerry’s visit coincided with the announcement that $572m military aid has been released
Gas production rates decrease to 4.65bn cubic feet per day
The gas company cut 300m cubic feet of gas per day from cement factory consumption, from its estimated daily rate of 430m cubic feet.
Palm Hills restores 56.77 feddans in Sheikh Zayed; New Cairo land settlement still outstanding
Palm Hills Development, cabinet and New Urban Communities Authority agree on EGP 229m settlement
Security forces disperse protest, arrest 24
Political parties and NGOs condemn arrests and call for the cancellation of the Protest Law
Syrian fire kills teen on Israeli-held Golan
AFP – The teenage son of an Israeli defence ministry contractor was killed on the Golan Sunday in the most serious incident on the plateau since the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011. Israel’s defence ministry and the army said the 15-year-old was killed when a blast hit the car he was travelling in with …
Israeli troops kill 2 West Bankers in teen manhunt
Israel has seized on the opportunity presented by the operation to try to rupture a reconciliation agreement between Abbas and Hama infuriating Israel.
Second day of protests over Afghan election fraud claims
Supporters in the western Afghan city burnt their voter registration cards in protest against alleged irregularities in the contest between the former foreign minister and rival Ashraf Ghani.
Shi’a rebels wound 17 Yemen police in ambush
AFP – Some 17 Yemeni policemen were wounded in an ambush by Shiite Huthi rebels as fighting between government forces and the rebels neared the capital, officials said on Sunday. The Huthis – also known as Ansarullah – have been pushing out of their northern mountain strongholds towards Sanaa in a suspected bid to expand …
Iraq militants ‘turning back clock’ in captured Mosul
Security forces in Mosul wilted in the face of the onslaught, in some cases abandoning uniforms and even vehicles in their haste to flee.
‘Presidential Palace’ trial postponed
Next hearing will take place on Monday
Egypt condemns ongoing violence in Syria
Ambassador to UN calls for withdrawal of foreign fighters from Syrian conflict
Minya death sentences represent ‘travesty of justice’: Rights groups
Judge upholds death sentences for 183 alleged MB members as rights group condemn “new purge of opposition”
Child marriage remains common, despite legal ban
AUC seminar examines causes and solutions to child marriage
Hollywood and the changing face of Cleopatra
Hollywood has been fascinated with Cleopatra since one of the fathers of cinema, Georges Melies, featured her in a short silent film in 1899.