President’s second mandate: Challenges and opportunities

Economic reform policies top issues, political reform hoped for

Amira El-Fekki

HDB targets EGP 8.82bn in deposits, EGP 3.7bn loans portfolio by end-2018

Bank aims to increase profits by 50% to EGP 1.5bn

Hossam Mounir

Al Ezz Dekheila Steel net profit in 2018 to stand at EGP 2.1bn: report

Company turned to profitability in first quarter of this year

Daily News Egypt

Kuwaiti KAMCO taps Zaki Hashem as legal adviser on Egypt expansions plans

Company mulls establishing investment bank in Cairo by 2019

Daily News Egypt

Clairvoyant cat Achilles to predict World Cup winners at Russia 2018

Animals purported to have psychic powers have become a tradition at soccer's showpiece events. Now a cat has been put forward to predict the winners and losers at the tournament…

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Bourse suffers amid broader selloff streak in emerging markets

EGX30 records its worst monthly losses in almost 2.5 years, likely to end correction this week

Daily News Egypt

UNICEF: Nearly half of children in Afghanistan do not go to school

The UN's children's agency, UNICEF, has said at least 3.7 million children in war-torn Afghanistan cannot go to school. Girls are at a particular disadvantage, it added.The continuing conflict and…

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Angela Merkel on Italy: Solidarity in eurozone should not lead to debt union

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has congratulated Italy's new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. However, she later appeared to dismiss the Italian government's calls to the European Central Bank for debt forgiveness.German…

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Jordan’s king freezes fuel price hikes for one month following mass protests

Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated against price increases, calling for ‘toppling of government’ 

Fatma Lotfi

Eschede: Germany’s worst train disaster remembered 20 years on

Germany's worst train accident, 20 years ago, is being remembered at Eschede, northeast of Hanover. A high-speed ICE train derailed, killing 101 people, and left Deutsche Bahn facing deep scrutiny…

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