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The joint US-Egypt Bright Star military exercises resumed yesterday at the Mohamed Naguib military base in Egypt after an eight-year hiatus. The exercises run through 20 September, according to an Armed Forces statement. The wargames focus on counterterrorism strategies and facing modern security threats. Egyptian and Russian paratroopers also began the Protectors of Friendship 2017 […]
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Heckler & Koch to stop selling weapons in “crisis regions,” including Egypt
No MP5 for us, huh? German weapons manufacturer Heckler & Koch pledged to no longer sell arms “into warzones or to countries that violate corruption and democracy standards, including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, or any African countries,” The Guardian reports. The company’s strategy was not announced, but was […]
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Saudi vows to continue pressuring Doha to meet demands as Russia enters mediation
Saudi vows to continue pressuring Doha to meet demands as Russia enters mediation: Riyadh intends to continue putting pressure on Doha until it meets the list of 13 demands made by the boycott bloc, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday, AFP reports. The remarks came during a joint press conference in Jeddah with […]
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The discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb in Luxor belonging to a royal goldsmith and his wife continued to top headlines of Egypt on a very slow news morning in the foreign press.
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Egypt turning into global destination for Hepatitis C treatment
International outlets are interested in Egypt turning into a global affordable destination for those seeking Hepatitis C treatment. Egypt has been producing the treatment Sovaldi since 2015 since 2015 under a government-sponsored initiative that has lowered the price of a full course of treatment to around USD 83 from around USD 84,000, the website claims. […]
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Egypt is leveraging its relationship with EU to pressure Ethiopia on GERD
Egypt is leveraging its relationship with the EU on issues such as migration toapply pressure on Ethiopia on the Grand Renaissance Dam, writes Albaraa Abdullah for Al Monitor. This was evident when Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his German counterpart Sigmar Gabriel last month, where migration topped the agenda but saw the latter come […]
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Some Middle Eastern countries may be in “for another popular awakening”
Some Middle Eastern countries may be in “for another popular awakening,” historian and former Israeli diplomat Shlomo Ben-Ami suggests in a piece for Project Syndicate. Ben-Ami’s argument supposes that social conditions in countries where the Arab Spring erupted in 2011 are worse than they were six years ago and that “authorities have run out of […]
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Israeli curriculum focusing on expulsion of Jews from Egypt inaccurate, writer says
It is not clear “a full-fledged expulsion [of Jews] happened” in Egypt, Eyal Sagui Bizawe writes in Haaretz, criticising new Israeli curriculum changes. Bizawe says that while Egypt put Jews “suspected of Zionist or communist activity” in detention camps, detained others without trial, and compelled a number a leave for reasons including fear and to […]
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Other international worth noting
Other international news worth noting in brief this morning include: Sharm El Sheikh is one of the top ten most affordable beach resorts, according to a ranking by Gulf News. Sudanese drivers, followed by Egyptians, are the least-safe drivers in the UAE, according to a study which ranked the safest drivers by nationality based on […]