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February 5, 2014

Witnesses in Kerdasa: Security forces burn houses to terrorise residents

Residents of the Kerdasa neighbourhood in the Giza Governorate say that Egyptian security forces have burned residential areas in the neighbourhood under the pretext of searching for residents who...

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February 5, 2014

Egypt’s justice minister dismisses chairwoman of forensics over published report

Egypt’s Justice Minister Counsellor Adel Abdul Hamid has ruled to dismiss the Chairwoman of Forensic Doctors, Dr Magda Al-Qaradawi, from her current position following the publishing of an autopsy...

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February 5, 2014

Eyewitness denies claim that besieged town is Islamist stronghold

Video A lawyer from one of the Egyptian towns brutally attacked by the coup authority’s security forces has denied claims that it has been held by armed Islamists or...

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February 5, 2014

Retired general criticises Egyptian government for resorting to military option

A retired army general has said that the coup government’s use of security forces to try to solve every problem indicates that it is failing to manage the country’s...

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February 5, 2014

Tawakkol Karman: Egypt’s opposition leaders resorted to military coup after the people rejected them

Yemeni activist and Nobel Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman has described the events in Egypt since 30 June as a complete military coup to overthrow the will of the Egyptian...

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February 5, 2014

Egypt detains dozens of Palestinian refugees from Syria

Dozens of Palestinian refugees fleeing from the violence in Syria have been detained by the Egyptian authorities. The conditions in which the refugees are being held have been described...

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February 5, 2014

Al-Nour Party supports a military candidate for presidency

Egypt’s leading Salafist party would be satisfied if the next Egyptian President had a military background. Dr. Younis Makhyon, a senior member of the Al-Nour Party, has revealed that...

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February 5, 2014

Egypt loses billions in tourist revenues

Egypt’s Minister of Tourism has said that the Egyptian tourism sector has lost more than 20 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.9 billion) over the past year. In a statement to...

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February 5, 2014

Anadolu: Muslim Brotherhood expresses reservations to Heikal’s proposal to resolve Egypt crisis

Sources in the Muslim Brotherhood said that leading Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal described his “vision” to resolve the political crisis in Egypt during a meeting with prominent Muslim...

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February 5, 2014

Most Egyptians prefer civilian president in future

The Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies has announced the results of a poll it recently conducted to measure Egyptian public opinion on the preferred background of the next...

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