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Freedom of the press under fire
Press syndicate rejects amendments to press law, government sends draft to parliament…
Activists call for an end to imprisonments
CAIRO: Activists have continued to call for the release of their fellow…
Switzerland seeks to expel Islamist for anti-Swiss hate campaign
BERN: Switzerland is seeking to expel an Egyptian Islamist accused of publishing…
Samir Sarhan, writer, critic, Cairo book fair organizer, dies
CAIRO: Samir Sarhan, a writer and literary critic who organized the Cairo…
Central bank merges three banks into United Bank
CAIRO: Egypt s Central Bank has merged three banks into a new…
More than 4,000 Palestinians stuck at Egypt-Gaza border
Associated Press RAFAH: More than 4,000 Palestinians are stuck in two towns…
Egypt struggling to defuse Mideast crisis
Agence France-Presse CAIRO: Egypt is trying to defuse a rapidly escalating crisis…
U.S. attorney general defends rendition of terror suspects
CAIRO: In his first visit to Egypt, the U.S. attorney general defended…