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Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investment is combating a [redacted] harassment problem of its own, Sarah Krouse and Kirsten Grind write for The Wall Street Journal. “The issue of workplace conduct has been simmering within Fidelity’s stockpicking unit in particular for years. A 2015 internal report warned of cultural problems particularly adverse for women, according to […]
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Other international news on 24 October 2017: GE stock tumbles to six-year low, EU officials raid Volkswagen, Daimler
Other international stories worth a quick look this morning: General Electric’s “deteriorating outlook” sent its stock price spiraling to itslowest level in six years yesterday,Bloomberg reports. The share price began to tumble when “banks from RBC Capital Markets to UBS Group AG” lowered their valuations for GE after CEO John Flannery announced a cut in […]
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HRW wants Macron to raise concerns over human rights in Egypt
On an otherwise quiet morning of Egypt in the international press, a drive by activists to draw attention to Cairo’s human rights record while President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is in France is getting some traction. Human Rights Watch urged French President Emmanuel Macron to end France's “disgraceful policies of indulgence” towards Egypt in a […]
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Cairo could be preparing more extreme backup options to pressure Ethiopia over GERD
2018 is likely to bring to a head tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over water that have been building for almost a decade, Michele Dunne and Katherine Pollock write for The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. There are concerns about what the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could mean for Egypt’s water supply. Domestically, Dunne […]
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LGBT dating apps trying to protect Egyptian users from entrapment
LGBT dating apps are sending users in Egypt tips on how to protect themselves from entrapment, Heba Kanso reports for Reuters. “It will make people take more precautions ... we know that the police are under pressure to arrest people and they are going about doing that through all the avenues that they have,” a […]
Posted inOn Deadline
Interior Ministry’s lack of transparency over Wahat attacks gave rise to false reports
Beating up on the foreign press: The Interior Ministry’s slowness in releasing information about the Wahat attack left room for rumors and false reports, a prominent columnist writes, but the real bad guys in are international media outlets that have run casualty figures that don’t square with official totals. In a not-so-veiled reference to BBC […]
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Meet the Egyptian-American FBI agent who foiled an Al Qaeda plot in the US
Meet the Egyptian-American FBI agent who foiled an Al Qaeda plot: By dispatch time, some of us here will be on Amazon looking to snap up a copy of American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent. The book takes a look at a year-long FBI investigation that foiled a 2013 Al […]
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The Kitesurfing competition that helped put Ras Sudr on the map
The ninth annual King of the Lagoon kitesurfing competition wrapped up a few weeks ago in Ras Sudr. Although geared mainly toward amateur-level competitors, King of the Lagoon has attracted a diverse crowd of international and local kitesurfers over the years, helping put Ras Sudr — with its idyllic conditions for the sport — on […]
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Egypt to run an industrial zone in Burundi
Egypt will be administering an industrial zone established by the Burundi government west of its capital of Bujumbura, Ahram Gate reports. The General Authority for Freezones and Investment, the Industrial Development Authority, and the Foreign Ministry will all take part in running the industrial zone, the Burundi government’s brainchild.