Egypt News
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Egypt’s highest court plans to remain in permanent session to protest articles related to it in the country’s draft constitution, as the panel writing the charter set a mid-November date to vote on the document.
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Switzerland is blocking about 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.1 billion) of illegal assets tied to the former leaderships of four countries at the center of the Arab Spring unrest.
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Egypt hopes to reach a preliminary accord with the International Monetary Fund on its economic and social program by the end of the month, paving the way for a $4.8 billion loan, Finance Minister Momtaz El-Saieed said.
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In the Palestinian city of Ramallah, protesters thronged the streets this month shouting “feed my children” after the government once again failed to pay 170,000 civil servants their monthly salaries on time.
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Egypt hasn’t exported natural gas to Jordan or Spain since March because local consumption has increased, Oil Minister Osama Kamal said, according to state-run al-Ahram newspaper.
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While details of the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya last month may never be fully known, there is ample evidence neither the Obama administration’s initial accounts nor Republican portrayals of the incident are accurate.
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Cemex SAB, the largest cement maker in the Americas, said its third-quarter loss narrowed as a housing recovery propelled sales growth in the U.S. market.
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Russia’s middle class will double to 60 percent of the population by 2050, benefiting hotels and restaurants, according to a report by HSBC Holdings Plc.
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Connecticut prosecutors dropped the charges against William Bryan Jennings, the former Morgan Stanley U.S. bond-underwriting chief accused of stabbing a New York cab driver over a fare.
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Egypt continues to attract investment from overseas oil companies operating in the North African nation even if they are owed payments by the nation’s government, according to Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co.
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