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Drivers at Suez Steel strike after suspension of colleague

Lebanese chairman insults Egyptian workers

Daily News Egypt

October 4, 2012

A special prayer service is held at Saint Mark’s cathedral to remember those killed in the Maspero massacre in 2011 and to ask for guidance in electing a new pope Basil El-Dabh

Copts remember Maspero victims at Cathedral

Pachomius: “We live in a new era of martyrdom.”

October 3, 2012

8 April officer given year and half sentence

Soldiers arrested last year for participating in anti-army protest

October 4, 2012

At least 40 dead as bombs rip through Syria’s Aleppo

40 dead and 90 injured in a grand car bombing

Daily News Egypt

October 3, 2012

Coptic children arrested and charged with “contempt of religion”

Young boys accused of ripping pages from the Quran and defacing them

Ahmed Aboulenein

October 3, 2012

Image released by the Egyptian Social Democratic party of the three students arrested in Assiut, from left, Mohamed Al-Semary, Islam Al-Badry and Mahmoud Rashad Egyptian Social Democratic party

Three arrested at student protest in Assiut

Twitter activists call for the release of the students

Hend Kortam

October 2, 2012

Doctor Abdel Hamid Omar Abaza, assistant to the Minister of Health and Population, speaks to the Daily News Egypt Hassan Ibrahim / DNE

Daily News Egypt

Universal healthcare unveiled

DNE speaks to Doctor Abdel Hamid Omar Abaza, assistant to the Minister…

November 14, 2012

Amnesty International called on President Morsy to undertake reform of police and security institutions (File photo) Hassan Ibrahim / DNE

amnesty international

Amnesty International calls for protection of human rights

NGO presses Egyptian government to for comprehensive set of laws to protect…

Daily News Egypt

October 28, 2012

Kay Granger, chair of the Appropriations Subcommitee on State and Foreign Relations, froze a request by the Obama administration for $ 450 mn in cash for the Egyptian government (File photo) AFP PHOTO

US Government divided over Egypt aid

Budget relief cash hangs in the balance as Americans argue

Daily News Egypt

October 7, 2012

The SCC decided on Monday to return the election draft law to the Shura Council, which drafted the law, after rejecting five articles as “unconstitutional”. (File Photo) AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI

Constitution Founders: Part 1

A closer look on the founders at Egypt's post-revolution constitution

Daily News Egypt

October 3, 2012