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Egypt
Court's reversal of the 2007 privatisation of the Shebin El-Kom Spinning and Weaving Company does not stop workers from pushing for the appointment of an 'honest' board and payment of outstanding benefits
Bus drivers at the Cairo Transportation Authority announced the end of their 17-day strike; workers said they wanted to relieve the public and give the Authority one last chance to improve their lives
Meeting between Tantawi and Panetta to decide the future of Grapel; Israeli security delegation to inspect embassy in Cairo; Hamas denies ties with the former German mediator and deal for exchange of prisoners
Ahram Online finds out that despite repeated denials that the interior ministry used snipers against protesters, its website includes information about sniper training programmes for Central Security officers
Even though Egypt's military rulers promised visiting US Defence Secretary they will lift emergency law, they gave no timetable as to when exactly this is to take place
Political groups are planning new protests in Tahrir Square this Friday to protest the ruling military council’s continuing hold on power, under the slogan ‘Thank you, now you can return to your barracks’
The head of Ain Shams University, one of Egypt’s largest universities, has officially submitted his resignation after strikes and protests at the university by professors and students
Angry over church burning Friday, hundreds of Copts take to Cairo streets Tuesday night to protest and demand equality, but army violently disperses them  
Military ruler scotches rumours of an army presidential candidate and claims parliamentary elections were delayed at the request of political forces and youth parties

Assiut nurses become the latest group to strike demanding government fulfill months-old promise of an LE700 minimum wage

Friday's destruction of a church in Edfu in the south of Egypt draws strong words from the Grand Imam

With print and broadcast journalists coming under increasing pressure from Egypt's military rulers, columnists filed empty pieces in protest at this intrusion on their freedom to work

Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi is to meet with Egyptian communities in Spain and Italy, discuss ex-pats participation in country's first democratic elections

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