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Environment 12 Sep, 2010

Water purification stations along the river Nile in southern Egypt have been sealed off to prevent contamination from a large oil spill. The accident involved diesel oil leaking from a barge dock...

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Cairo's Computerised Call to Prayer

Religion 15 Aug, 2010

For more than a millennium, Cairo's call to prayer has been communicated by a chosen person known as a muezzin, or muzim, from the top of the minarets at the city's 4,500 mosques. The muezzin leads th...

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Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art Reopened

Culture 14 Aug, 2010

After a seven-year restoration programme, Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art was officially reopened by President Hosni Mubarak on 14 August. However the 25 galleries will not be open to the general public...

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Egyptair launches south Sudan service

Transport 29 Jul, 2010

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Play Causes Controversy in Cairo

Culture 21 Jul, 2010

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Makro store opens in Cairo

Retail 06 Jul, 2010

The international retail company Metro Group has opened its first wholesale cash-and-carry supermarket in Egypt, in the El Salam City district on the outskirts of Cairo. The store, which operates unde...

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Egypt Human Development Report 2010

General 04 Jul, 2010

Unemployment, poverty and lack of political participation are three of the main problems facing young people in Egypt according to the Egypt Human Development Report 2010, which was released at the en...

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Cairo’s Garden City villa to be restored

Culture 02 Jul, 2010

US and Egyptian experts are involved in a joint project to restore Villa Castagli in the leafy Garden City district in central Cairo. The building, one of a number of stately villas built in this...

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New Egypt tobacco tax

Health 02 Jul, 2010

The price of tobacco products has risen sharply in Egypt as the result of a new tax aimed at encouraging smokers to kick their habit. Under the new levy, which came into force on 1 July, the cost...

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Egypt courts private investment in transport sector

Tourism 01 Jul, 2010

The Egyptian government is planning to attract private sector investment in the road and rail sectors in an attempt to improve its transport network, the daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reports. U...

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Grand Egyptian Museum under construction

Culture 01 Jul, 2010

The conservation and restoration centre for archaeological remains, power station and fire-fighting unit have been inaugurated at the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) being built near the Giza pyramids...

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Antiquities conference opens in Cairo

Culture 06 Apr, 2010

An international conference calling for the return of antiquities to their country of origin begins in Cairo on 7 April. Culture ministers and heads of museums from 16 countries are taking part. The c...

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Cairo taxis accused of overcharging

Transport 12 Mar, 2010

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Egypt approves organ transplant law

Health 05 Mar, 2010

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Amenhotep III’s head discovered in Egypt

Culture 01 Mar, 2010

A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has found a massive red granite head of Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt nearly 3,400 years ago. The sculpture is part of a bigger statue of the pharaoh, m...

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Egypt still short of cooking gas

Economy 23 Feb, 2010

The shortage of butane gas continued into its fourth week in Egypt at the end of February with households in the poorer areas sometimes having to pay LE70 for a cylinder, or ambooba as it is called, t...

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King Tutankhamun death mystery solved?

Culture 18 Feb, 2010

The boy-king Tutankhamun may have died from malaria according to the results of new scientific research carried out using DNA tests and CT scans. Speculation has surrounded the death of the young...

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Cairo celebrates Egypt Cup of Nations win

Sport 30 Jan, 2010

Jubilant fans took to the streets of Cairo in celebration on 31 January following Egypt

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Egypt and Ghana through to Cup of Nations final

Sport 29 Jan, 2010

Egypt plays Ghana in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in Angola on 31 January. This is the third consecutive final for defending champions Egypt, which beat their great ri...

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Egyptian court revokes ban on niqabs

Education 20 Jan, 2010

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Saudi BinLaden Group gets Cairo airport hotel contract

Tourism 19 Jan, 2010

The Saudi Arabia-based BinLaden group has won the contract to build a new 330-room five-star hotel at Cairo International Airport. Egypt

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Egyptian property tax reforms

Real Estate 09 Jan, 2010

A group of professors from Ulster University in the United Kingdom is assessing possible reforms to Egypt

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Stolen antiquities conference in Cairo

Culture 06 Jan, 2010

Egypt is to host a conference on the return of antiquities in Cairo in the spring. It is estimated that about 30 countries, including Greece, Mexico, Peru, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia and China, will...

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Taxis for women only

Transport 05 Jan, 2010

Cairo may soon get a taxi service run by women and for women only, according to a recent report in the Jerusalem Post, Israel

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Egyptian tombs reveal new discoveries

Culture 05 Jan, 2010

The discovery of two tombs at the Sakkara necropolis site south of Cairo could reveal new information about the burial and religious rites of ordinary Egyptians, rather than of royalty according to Eg...

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Estonia and Latvia to share Cairo embassy

General 04 Jan, 2010

Estonia and Latvia are to share an embassy premises in Cairo according to an agreement signed at the end of 2009. If all goes according to plan the jointly operated facility should be operational in t...

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Niqab ban upheld

Education 03 Jan, 2010

A Cairo administrative court has upheld the decision of Egypt

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New satellite city for Cairo

Housing 14 Dec, 2009

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Egypt out of running for World Cup

Sport 30 Nov, 2009

Egypt will not be travelling to South Africa to play in next year

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Hungry Caterpillar published in Arabic braille

Culture 13 Oct, 2009

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