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EGYPT News, Dec 23, 2011

Egyptians rally against army
Irish Times
Students also appealed to Egyptians to join today's protest after two students from Cairo's Ain Shams university were among those killed. The deaths prompted sit-ins on Ain Shams campus, in front of the Defence Ministry, and at other universities. ...
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Irish Times
Moody's downgrades Egypt to B2
India Infoline.com
Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded Egypt's government bond ratings by one notch to B2 from B1 and also placed the rating on review for further possible downgrade. Egypt's ongoing unsettled political situation, which continues to undermine ...
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El-Ganzouri Says Egypt Not Getting Promised Aid as Money Flees
BusinessWeek
“Nothing has arrived” from the $35 billion pledged for Egypt and Tunisia by the Group of Eight major economies, the premier said at a televised press conference in Cairo today. Egypt's “Arab brothers” delivered only $1 billion of $10.5 billion promised ...
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Egypt's women must be allowed to protest in peace
Amnesty International
Amnesty International called on Egypt's military rulers to uphold the right to peaceful demonstration as women human rights activists staged more proteststoday. Activists took to the streets to denounce violence used by the military against female and ...
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Egyptian woman beaten by police speaks out
NECN
But her condition today was visibly better than a day earlier, when she couldn't even talk. Wailing in agony and crying for help. Azza wonders what will happen to her homeland. And even though her late father was a General in Egypt's Army - she can't ...
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Egyptian socialists answer the state's attack
Socialist Worker Online
Yes, we are seeking to overthrow the state of tyranny and poverty that has ruled us for the last 30 years, and continues to rule us today--the state that has killed thousands of fighters in its prisons, the state which has looted and stolen from the...
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Jesus, Christmas, and the Arab Spring
ChristianityToday.com (blog)
What about Christians today in the city of Jesus' death and resurrection (Jerusalem), the land of his refuge as a baby (Egypt), the place of Paul's conversion (Damascus), or the land from where the Israelites' passed to the promised land (Jordan)? ...
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OCI/BESIX JV Selected for Egyptian Grand Museum
PR-CANADA.net (press release)
Cairo, Egypt / 20 December, 2011 1:30 PM OCI/BESIX Group Joint Venture Selected for the Award of the Third Phase of the Egyptian Grand Museum Valued at US$ 810 Million Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) announced today that a 50/50 joint venture ...
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Piraeus Bank Hires Advisor to Immediately Start Egypt Unit Sale
BusinessWeek
... Greece's fourth- biggest lender, said it hired Barclays Capital to advise on the sale of its Egyptian unit, Piraeus Bank Egypt. “The sale process will start immediately,” the Athens- based lender said in an e-mailed statement today. ...
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Was Baby Jesus an Illegal Immigrant?
American Spectator
"So Jesus and his parents become fugitives under the law and flee once again this time to Egypt. Jesus is now an illegal immigrant with a criminal record." Ostensibly Jesus' illegal status continued even after Mary and Joseph returned from Egypt "not ...
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American Spectator
Gamesa Corp. Reaches Accord to Supply 100 Wind Turbines to Egypt
Bloomberg
Tecnologica SA reached an accord with Egypt's New & Renewable Energy Authority to supply 100 wind turbines with a total capacity of 200 megawatts, the company said in a regulatory filing today. Gamesa will start making the turbines for this contract in ...
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Egypt: missionaries plan Christmas with garbage collectors
Independent Catholic News
Speaking on the phone with Fides, Fr Luciano said that today, 23 December, there was a demonstration against violence against women, by some members of the army. He said: "Yesterday, in another square in Cairo, a pro army demonstration took place. ...
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The Challenge of Change in the Middle East
Foreign Policy Journal
The most dramatic example of Islam rising again came in Egypt, with the fall of the 60-year-old military dictatorship. The West hailed the coming of democracy but democracy delivered a rude shock. In the first round of voting, over 60 percent of ...
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Tales of Jaunty Anarchy on the Nile
Wall Street Journal
By SAM SACKS At first, the novel set in Egypt and written in 1999 seems startlingly prescient. We have a bird's-eye view of a throng of people in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where "workmen without jobs; intellectuals disillusioned with fame; civil servants ...
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Wall Street Journal
Buttered Up: Sugar Cookies for cookie-cutter Women
Daily News Egypt
By Sarah Khanna / Special to Daily News Egypt On the 10th day of the 10th month of 2010, I broke my finger and made an unexpected friend. Irrespective of the pressing need to operate, it was not until a week later, after the kids were cured of their ...
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2011 Was A Bad Year For Dictators
NPR
Not only that but also on the list, let's not forget, was Hosni Mubarak, who ranEgypt in a very heavy-handed way for more than 30 years. That's a pretty enormous change. At number three on our list very recently was Than Shwe of Burma. ...
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Mosaic News - 12/22/11: Maliki Demands Kurds Hand Over VP
linktv
Today's headlines in full: Iraq's Maliki urges Kurds to hand over fugitive vice president Al Jazeera, Qatar Protestors walk 250 km from Taiz to Sanaa in Yemen's 'March of Life' Al-Alam, Iran UN members condemn Israel over settlement expansion Dubai TV, ...
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We can't ignore the persecution of Christians in the Middle East
Spectator.co.uk
This has spread to Egypt, where Coptic Christians have lived in peace with Muslims for generations — until now, with 25 dead in October. Syria's 1.5 Christians have suffered from the Assad regime as much as anyone, but they now pray for its survival, ...
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Spectator.co.uk
Interview With Hala Deals Marketing Director, Mohamad Kaloub
Daily Deal Media
By Mohamed Salah - Contributor December 23, 2011 When I look back at Egypt's group buying site reviews that i did in last August, I figured out that a lot has changed in the group buying market since then. There is no question that Hala Deals is the ...
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Daily Deal Media
Sherine Tadros with the latest updates from Tahrir Square
Al Jazeera
The slogan in the Square is "wake up Tantawi, today is your last day" - in reference to Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling military council. Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports from Tahrir Square in Egypt.
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View Aquatic Directory
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com
The Olympic champion started off with a 2:16.53 in the 200 breast today, then popped a relatively mediocre 15:33 in the 1500 free and then stepped right back up to anchor Tunisia's 400 medley relay, which could not hold off Egypt for the win. ...
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Carla Bruni jets out to multimillion-pound Moroccan pad, angering Arab pro ...
Daily Mail
At the time, Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his family had enjoyed a luxury free holiday in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt, while Foreign Secretary Michele Alliot-Marie had done the same thing in Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's Egypt. ...
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Daily Mail
At Christmas, a Maronite Christian Village in Israel Revives the Language ...
TIME (blog)
... century monk who inspired the movement in the Aramean region in what istoday Syria. By then Aramaic had been the lingua franca from Egypt to Afghanistan for perhaps 1000 years, though few Americans had heard of it before The Passion of the Christ. ...
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The Day's Best | 12.22.11
News & Observer
ASSOCIATED PRESS Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head ofEgypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), walks up a flight of stairs with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, before their meeting in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Dec. ...
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News & Observer
Friedman: Help wanted across the globe
Longview News-Journal
I've been struck by how similar the remarks by Russians about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who just basically reappointed himself president, are to those I heard from Egyptians about Hosni Mubarak, who kept reappointing himself president. ...
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Christians are under fire in the historic Holy Land
Chicago Sun-Times
The uprising in Egypt unleashed anti-Christian attacks, with Coptic Christian churches burned and their parishioners murdered. In one particularly bloody incident, Egyptian security forces joined stick-wielding thugs in killing 24 Christians and ...
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Risky behaviors affect insurability
Cincinnati.com
If an applicant plans to go to Egypt, for example, five days a year on business, the underwriter may be just a little concerned. If the plan is to vacation in Cairo, the site of much violence at present, for months at a time, the underwriter may lose ...
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Fight against corruption has a new arena: Christmas crib
Hindustan Times
... of the protest at Egypt's Tahrir Square and the economic crisis in Europe. A Christmas crib recreates the nativity or manger scene of the birth of Jesus. “The world today has striking resemblances to the world that existed before Christ was born. ...
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All I want for Christmas – 1932
Lisburn Today
They said that one young lad had in fact addressed his letter to Santa in Egypt that year. Local nonagenarian, Saidie Hunter kindly allowed me access to her old school comprehension book which she has had in her possession from her schooldays at ...
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Lisburn Today
Whatever follows, "Occupy" has changed the rules
CBS News
Like those other upheavals it's aligned with in Spain, Greece, Iceland (where they're actually jailing bankers), Britain, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Chile, and most recently Russia, it wants to ask basic questions: What matters? Who matters? ...
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US frets as deadly Egypt clashes enter 4th day - TODAY News ...
The United States said it was worried by violence in Egypt and urged the army rulers to respect human rights on Monday.
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../deeply-concerned-us-frets-deadly-eg...
Egypt keen to boost ties, trade with Bangladesh - News Today
The newly-appointed Ambassador of Egypt Mahmoud Yehia Mohamed Ezzat Mostafa expressed this view while talking to The News Today at his office on ...
www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details...
Blue bra beating spurs rallies from 'the girls of Egypt' | News ...
http://www.newsaddicts.com/popular-news-today/egypt-10000-march-in-protest- at-woman-dragged-half-naked-through-street-telegraph-co-uk.html Egypt: ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../the-girls-of-egypt-rally-after-blue-br...
Media Clash Over Cause Of Violence In Egypt | Top US News Today
Egypt's ruling military and the revolutionaries who demand they immediately step down battled for a third day in the streets on Sunday — and competed fiercely ...
www.topusnewstoday.com/media-clash-over-cause-of-violenc...
Egypt Eurozone News - Eurozone News Today
Egypt Eurozone News. The Latest Egypt News from Eurozone News Today. 1 - 30 / 1434 More Articles More Topics. 2012 Outlook: European Woes, Middle East...
eurozone.einnews.com/country/egypt
Egypt elections enter second round | Flash News Today – Online ...
Egypt: Egyptian voters are set to go to the polls for the second round in the country's lengthy post-revolution election process. The first round earlier this month...
flashnewstoday.com/index.../egypt-elections-enter-second-rou...
Egyptian women protest abuse by military
CAIRO (AP) – Thousands of Egyptian women have taken to the streets of Cairo in a mass demonstration against the military's brutality against women during a ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-12-20/.../1
High turnout in Egypt's second round of ... - Saudi News Logo
Egyptians turned out in large numbers at polling stations in nine governorates on Wednesday, for the second round of parliamentary elections in which the ...
www.saudinewstoday.com/.../93207__High+turnout+in+Egyp...
Rights groups: Egypt's rulers target critics ... - USA Today
Egypt may be voting in free elections, but the military's repression of critics shows that true democracy does not exist, rights groups say.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-12-14/.../1
Egypt violence: Further clashes hit Tahrir Square – - Nine News ...
Egypt Violence (BBC News) – At least one person has died in fresh clashes between protesters and troops in the Egyptian capital Cairo, bringing the death toll...
www.ninenewstoday.com/egypt-violence-further-clashes-hit-ta...
US alarmed by violence in Egypt (AP) | Breaking News Today
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration pressed its concerns Wednesday withEgyptian officials over the ongoing violence and abuse of fema...
newsperuse.com/us-alarmed-by-violence-in-egypt-ap.html
Egypt starts second round of elections – Pakistan News Today ...
World News | By webmaster ... Egyptians are heading to the polls Wednesday for the second round of the ... All Rights Reserved By Pakistan News Today.
pakistannewstoday.com/.../egypt-starts-second-round-of-electi...
Demonstration Against the Military Regime in Egypt - World News ...
Charlesayoub delivers breaking news from across the Arab and U.S globe. We are committed to deliver the latest world news headlines and stories about ...
www.newcissa.com/.../Demonstration-Against-the-Military-Re...
United Jerusalem - - Israel-News Today -- 12/21/2011
2) Egypt admits wounded. ... Home > Israel-News Today · Thousands ofEgyptian Women Protest Brutality (INN) ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) By Chana Ya´ar ...
www.unitedjerusalem.org/index2.asp?id=1506600
VIDEO: Egyptian soldiers beat Tahrir woman - News from USA Today
VIDEO: Egyptian soldiers beat Tahrir woman - News from USA Today.
tucsoncitizen.com/.../video-egyptian-soldiers-beat-tahrir-woma...
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