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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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Revised shop curfew law revealed

Revised version grants a few additional hours to most closing times

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez
Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (in the car, R, black suit), flanked by Turkey's Chief of General Staff, Isik Kosaner and a commander, arrives at a parade marking the 87th anniversary of Republic Day in Ankara. (AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)
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Thousands of Turks defy ban to mark Republic Day

Republic Day is a national holiday in Turkey but it has in…

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The ministry plans to use solar energy stations to produce 100 MW per year. (AFP PHOTO / Menahem Kahana)
Business

Government to rely on solar energy to shore up power deficit

The project will be key in reducing the shortage of electricity in…

Mohamed Salah Mohamed Salah
Opinion

Do we have a government?

It seems like we are being tricked, like there is no one…

Rana Allam Rana Allam
The President of the High Political Committee of the Republican Party, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, gives a speech on October 13, 2012, in Tunis AFP
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Tunisia sets dates for polls after compromise

Elections scheduled for 23 June, 7 July 2013

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Coptic Christian families are still waiting for justice to be served Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
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Rights groups condemn government for Maspero inaction

EIPR releases report detailing government failure to reduce sectarian tension

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh

From the other side: The issue of the civil society is a different story

In Mid-March of 2011, 60 civil society organisations submitted a draft law…

Gamal Eid Gamal Eid
Doctors escalate their strike ignoring their demands (File photo) Hassan Ibrahim
EgyptPolitics

Doctors start “free treatment strike”

Doctors escalate strike, rift between two committee’s governing the strike remains

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam
A map locating Jebel Aulia in Sudan where 13 Sudanese military personnel died and nine others were injured when their transport plane crashed west of Khartoum on its way to conflict-plagued Darfur, state media reported AFP Photo
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Thirteen killed in Sudan military crash

13 Sudanese military personnel died, nine injured in a plane crash

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PoliticsRegion

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

40 dead and 90 injured in a grand car bombing

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