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The UN blacklisted the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen on Thursday in a report to the Security Council alleging that the coalition killed or injured 683 children in Yemen and attacking dozens of schools and hospitals in 2016. The report also blacklisted the Iran-allied Houthi group for similar violations. The coalition had […]
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The darknet is at the edge of the investable universe
The darknet is at the edge of the investable universe: The Dark Net’s potential to disrupt mainstream businesses is growing, Goldman Sachs Research Head of Internet Research Heath Terry says. The darknet — in which messages, goods and services can change hands outside the reach of regulation and law enforcement — remains on the fringes […]
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Archaeologists make several discoveries from Ancient Egypt
New discoveries from Ancient Egypt: Archaeologists have unearthed a number of Ancient Egyptian artefacts recently, the most striking of which is a red granite obelisk believed to be as old as 4,300 years. A Swiss-French mission dug up the ruin — one of the largest stone fragments ever found — at the Saqqara necropolis, Newsweek […]
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LGBTQ arrests continue to top coverage of Egypt in the international press
Topping coverage of Egypt in the international news is more blowback from arrests of LGBTQ citizens, with Human Rights Watch claiming that 57 Egyptians have been arrested so far since the supposed crackdown on LGBTQ activists began two weeks ago. The group also condemned the Supreme Media Council’s ban on all “positive” reporting on same-gender […]
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Egypt needs to focus on attracting longer-term investment -Werr
Patrick Werr is back to writing his usual column for The National and his first order of business to sound the call that Egypt “should be working overtime to attract longer-term investment.” Werr is positing, “citing fixed-income traders and economists,” that the central bank has been keeping the EGP undervalued “by as much as 20%.” […]
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Did the UAE pay for Egypt’s US lobbying efforts in 2013?
Did the UAE pay for Egypt’s lobbying efforts in the US in 2013? That’s what emails The Intercept got its hands on seem to be suggesting. The report relies on email exchanges between the UAE’s Ambassador to the US, Yousef Otaiba, and officials from the D.C-based public relations and lobbying outfit Glover Park Group, which […]
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Tahteeb evolved from deadly contest to a noncontact form of martial arts
Reuters is out with yet another story on tahteeb, the ancient Egyptian martial art. Their angle is how the martial art evolved from being one that could see the loser injured or killed to now being non-contact, with striking not permitted. “Tahteeb requires a great deal of skill and control, and there are rules which […]
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Other int’l stories worth a brief note:
Other international stories on Egypt worth noting in brief include: A lawyer says police arrested seven Nubians who were protesting outside a courthouse over a judge's decision to extend the detention of relatives detained for protesting for Nubian land rights, the AP notes. The Tour N’ Cure medical tourism program is receiving an extensive report […]
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Government borrowing must be stopped and swapped with a focus on domestic production
Government borrowing that has brought foreign debt to alarming levels mus t be stopped and replaced with measures to increase domestic production with an eye to boost exports, Mohamed Mekky writes in a column penned for Al Shorouk. Mekky points out that foreign debt levels are as equally alarming as booming population growth rates, criticizing […]