CAIRO: Egypt’s state-owned news agency, MENA, reported that the curfew will be renewed again on Saturday around the Ministry of Defense from 11 pm to 7 am. The Egyptian military used force to disburse a sit-in in the Abbassiya district of Cairo, arresting around 220 and injuring over 200. Activists said the military forces used [...]
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CAIRO: The American University in Cairo (AUC) conducted its third Behind the Headlines media roundtable series. “Trying to draft a constitution that expresses the different trends in society is unrealistic from a legal point of view and may hamper the process,” said Amr Shalakany, associate professor of law. “It would be relatively easy to gain [...]
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CAIRO: US President Barak Obama issued a videotaped statement that warned progress made by the Sudan and South Sudan was now “at risk of unraveling” and urged the two nations to step back from the brink. “You still have a chance to avoid being dragged back into war, which only leads to one place: more [...]
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CAIRO: Hundreds of students hailing from Sudan’s western region of Darfur demonstrated in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Wednesday against the killing of one of their colleagues at the hands of the security authorities. The victim, named Abdel-Hakim Isa, was a student at Omdurman Islamic University and he was affiliated to the Darfur rebel [...]
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CAIRO: “Lend Your Leg” is a campaign that encourages people worldwide to roll up a pant leg or sleeve to stop the damage landmines still cause while showing solidarity with all survivors of landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Watch and share the video! BM
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CAIRO: The young man thought he had found a friend. The 17-year-old girl he met on an online chatroom called Alamak.com was friendly. Very friendly, in fact. Within a month, their online chats had moved on to video chats, which then turned risqué. She started stripping for him. He did the same, but that one [...]
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The woman was hit in the back of her neck with a tear-gas projectile shot directly at her by a group of Border Police officers during the weekly demonstration in the village of Nabi Saleh yesterday. More that 20 were injured during the demonstration. Despite a ridiculing statement by the IDF spokesperson that the [...]
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