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Egypt, Turkey, and Israel have all fallen prey to delusions about US President Donald Trump, Steven A Cook writes for Salon. “It all seems rather strange given how Trump rode to power, winking at Islamophobes as well as anti-Semites and otherwise appealing to isolationists. If there was any sign during the long campaign about Trump’s […]
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Egypt’s hepatitis C treatment program could be a model globally
Egypt’s program to treat hepatitis C patients using medications including Sovaldi has treated nearly one mn patients, most at the government’s expense, and now experts say it could be a model for the rest of the world, Heba Saleh writes in The Financial Times. “Gilead agreed to provide the medicine cheaply because it knew the […]
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Egypt’s new wheat experiment
Egypt’s National Center for Water Researches (NCWR) says it has successfully applied a new method to bring in an extra wheat harvest in Egypt, writes Marwa Yahya for Xinhua. The technique is called vernalization which freezes seeds during germination to accelerate their flowering process, Chairman Hisham Mustafa said, and could double Egypt’s annual harvest. It […]
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Cutting the Ikhwan out of the picture leaves room for greater threats
Cutting the Ikhwan out of the picture leaves room for greater threats: While their strength does represent a threat to the United States, pushing the Ikhwan entirely off the board “may snowball into a far more perilous status quo,” as it creates room for ultra-extremist groups to advance. A recent research report from the CIA, […]
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Newton wants a less bloated cabinet
Newton wants a less bloated cabinet: The Al Masry Al Youm columnist with the pseudonym Newton hopes the Cabinet reshuffle will come about with a reduced number of ministries. The current composition of government has a needlessly large number of ministries, he writes. The ministries of tourism, antiquities, culture, and civil aviation could be merged […]
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Prosecutor General allows Italian authorities to retrieve metro CCTV footage from night of Regeni’s kidnapping
Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek has given Italian experts the green light to investigate CCTV footage from the Dokki metro station where Italian researcher Giulio Regeni was last seen before being kidnapped last January, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The decision is being positioned as evidence of transparency on Egypt’s part in the ongoing investigation into […]
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Egypt, Sudan in talks to set up free trade zone
Egypt and Sudan are in talks to set up a free trade zone at the border between both countries to boost Egypt’s imports to Sudan and its neighboring countries, an official from Sudan’s Commerce, Industry and Investment Ministry told Al Mal.
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Parliamentary delegation heads to Brussels
A parliamentary delegation is in Brussels after receiving an invitation from the European parliament to discuss the NGO law, the refugee crisis, and the Libyan and Syrian crises, Al Masry Al Youm reports.
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Electricity Ministry completes El Shabab, West Damietta power plants in 2Q2017
The Electricity Ministry is set to complete converting the El Shabab and West Damietta power plants to the combined cycle system in 2Q2017, EEHC Chairman Gaber El Dessouky told Al Mal. The power plants are 83% and 80% complete, respectively, he added. The total cost of the projects is around EGP 6 bn and is […]
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Electricity Ministry considers reducing fuel oil used in production
The Electricity Ministry is considering reducing fuel oil used in production to reduce the financial burden on the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company, unnamed sources tell Daily News Egypt. Following the float, fuel oil increased in price to EGP 2,500 per tonne from EGP 2,300 while one cubic meter of natural gas rose to EGP 1.5 […]