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Prime Minster Hesham Qandil announced yesterday government plans to increase natural gas prices for cement and brick factories from $4 per million BTU to $6 per million BTU. (File Photo) (AFP PHOTO)
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Qandil discusses draft NGO law

Human Rights lawyers reject draft amid concerns of State control

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Former MP Mohamed El-Omda, left, speaks alongside colleagues in the Parliament building Mohamed Omar
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Former members of People’s Assembly meet in parliament building

Former parliamentarians demand national referendum over PA dissolution

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Al-Ahram

Editors in chief appointment appeal adjourned

Shura Council cancels bonuses allocated to former editors in chief

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ANHRI

ANHRI’s hotline for reporting on rights violations

Rights group sets up hotline to protect citizens’ rights and freedoms

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
Palestinians transport bags of cement through smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah AFP, Mohammed Abed
Egypt

Egypt rejects Hamas free trade zone proposal

Presidential spokesman confirms there is no plan for a free trade agreement…

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Despite the strike by medical staff, a doctor provides treatment to a man in Mounira hospital Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
attacks

Doctors’ strike begins

Doctors demand increased wages, security, budget and overall better services

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al-nour party

Construction and Development to run on party list

Islamist parliamentarian says no to prospect of alliances

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Students from the faculty of mass communication join in strike action at the University of Cairo Fady Salah / DNE
administration

Strike erupts in the faculty of Mass Communication

Another student strike in Cairo University

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Arish

Six Christian families return to Rafah

Rafah residents unite amid heightened security

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Former president Hosni Mubarak lies on a stretcher as he leaves court (File photo) AFP PHOTO
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Date set for Mubarak and Al-Adly’s appeal hearing

Cessation court to examine the appeal of Mubarak and Al-Adly’s life sentence

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