Egypt's president in Saudi Arabia for talks with new king
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Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy
| March 2, 2015 - 3:45am
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi visited Saudi Arabia on yesterday for his first policy meeting with the country's king ahead of a conference aimed at shoring up financial support from wealthy Gulf states...
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Egypt's president raises cigarette tax
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Merrit Kennedy
| February 23, 2015 - 6:08am
Egypt said yesterday it will raise the sales tax on both local and imported cigarettes as it confronts a major budget deficit.
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Egypt leader on defensive over claims he mocked Gulf allies
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Maggie Michael
| February 11, 2015 - 7:04am
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi scrambled to avert any damage to ties with Arab Gulf countries after he and his aides were allegedly caught on audiotape mocking his crucial oil-rich allies and discussing...
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Head of Egypt soccer team says police did not kill fans
February 9, 2015 - 4:54pm
The head of Egypt's second largest soccer team says he doesn't blame police for deaths of 22 fans during clashes and a stampede in front of a Cairo stadium.
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Opposition party to boycott Egypt election, slams government
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Merrit Kennedy
| February 9, 2015 - 3:16am
A center-left political party says it will boycott Egypt's elections next month in protest at what it calls the government's human rights violations.
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Egypt's foreign reserves fall to $15.33B in December
January 8, 2015 - 2:36am
Egypt's central bank says foreign currency reserves fell to $15.33 billion at the end of December, a $550 million drop from a month earlier.
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Egypt to criminalize 'insulting revolutions'
December 4, 2014 - 2:41am
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has said his office is drafting a law to criminalize insulting the uprisings that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and his Islamist successor Mohammed Morsi last ...
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Questions and answers on Egypt's Mubarak ruling
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Hamza Hendawi
| December 1, 2014 - 5:31am
The dismissal of the murder case against toppled President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising has sparked muted and scattered protests, but what does it mean for the Arab world's...
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France returns 250 smuggled Egyptian antiquities
November 28, 2014 - 4:00am
France has returned 250 Egyptian antiquities seized from the luggage of travelers arriving in Paris four years ago.
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Egypt to host major economic conference in March
November 23, 2014 - 2:25am
Egypt's prime minister says his government will host a three-day international economic conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh starting March 13 to support the country's economy.
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