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February 5, 2014
Egypt’s Committee of 50 has decided to abolish an article in the former constitution dictating that workers and farmers occupy at least 50 per cent of parliamentary seats. The...
February 5, 2014
The head of state industrial holding company Rostec said on Monday that Russia is to provide Egypt with air defence missile systems. Sergei Chemezov told the state-run RIA Novosti...
February 5, 2014
Egypt’s Tamarod movement has denounced the Ministry of Interior for attacking a vigil the movement organized in memory of the Mohamed Mahmoud victims. The Ministry claimed that the vigil...
February 5, 2014
The Islamic Group’s Shura Council has denied the media claims of divisions within the group. The group stressed that it will not abandon the campaign for constitutional legitimacy, reiterating...
February 5, 2014
Turkish Nobel laureate author Orhan Pamuk has said he is closely watching the latest developments in Egypt, likening the coup led by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Gabriel García Márquez’s...
February 5, 2014
A senior leader of the National Alliance against the Coup in Egypt has said that its dialogue proposal does not include “coup leaders” and “those who have blood on...
February 5, 2014
The Sinai representative of the Committee of Fifty for amending the Egyptian Constitution, Musa’ad Abu-Fajr, has withdrawn his support for a motion after members insisted on prosecuting civilians before...
February 5, 2014
Official statistics in Egypt have revealed that the number of tourists who visited the country in September is down by 69.7% over the previous year, when ousted President Mohamed...
February 5, 2014
Around 320 students are reported to have been wounded by the Egyptian police and army when they broke into the halls of residence at Cairo’s famed Al-Azhar University and...
February 5, 2014
Cairo’s Criminal Court refused on Monday the appeal filed by Muslim Brotherhood leaders against their detention on charges of violence, a judicial source told mass media. The defendants who...