Egypt working on Gaza border to stem smuggling
AP - 57 minutes agoEgyptian security officials say a project is under way along the Gaza border to stem smuggling into the Palestinian territory through underground tunnels.
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Conflicting reports over Egypt works at Gaza border
AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 1 minutes agoResidents of the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah, a smuggling haven within tunneling distance of the Gaza strip, say engineers have begun a using heavy earth-moving equipment for a set of mysterious excavation works.
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Egypt Christian group seeks to change Muslim status
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 4 minutes agoAyman Raafa, an Egyptian born a Christian, was nine months old when the father he never knew converted to Islam.
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Technip: $95.8 Mln Pact For Work Offshore Egypt
Fox News - Thu Dec 10, 2:34 am ETTechnip: $95.8 Mln Pact For Work Offshore Egypt
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Technip Wins 65 Million-Euro Subsea Gas Pipe Contract in Egypt
Bloomberg - Thu Dec 10, 2:18 am ETDec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Technip SA won a contract worth 65 million euros ($96 million) relating to engineering, procurement, installation and construction on the West Delta Deep Marine Phase VII project offshore Egypt in the Mediterranean.
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Egypt Stocks Drop Most This Month as Dubai May Sell EFG Stake
Bloomberg - Wed Dec 9, 9:00 am ETDec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s main stock index fell the most this month, led by a decline in EFG-Hermes Holding SAE after Dubai Group LLC was said to be seeking to sell a $91 million stake in the Egyptian investment bank.
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Egypt reported working on Gaza border wall
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 12:44 pm ETEgyptian earth-moving machinery was at work on the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday and an Israeli newspaper said a project was under way to build a subterranean metal wall to block Palestinian smuggling tunnels.
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Egypt 'excavate' Gaza border tunnel
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 10:11 am ETEgyptian engineers were carrying out major excavation work at the Gaza border on Wednesday as an Israeli daily reported that an anti-smuggling barrier was under construction, an AFP reporter said.
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Angry Egypt demands Britain returns Rosetta Stone
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 6:28 am ETA top Egyptian official pressed Britain Wednesday to return an ancient stone tablet seen as an icon of his country and denied his countrymen were "pirates of the Caribbean" seeking to steal it back.
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Report: Egypt constructing iron wall on Gaza border
EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 10, 5:16 am ETCairo - Egypt is constructing an iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported. Haaretz said the wall, meant to curtail smuggling, would be between 9-10 kilometres long and would extend as far as 30 metres...
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BBC: Egypt erecting wall to thwart Gaza smuggling
USA Today - Wed Dec 9, 6:08 pm ETTo cut smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip, Egypt is installing an impenetrable U.S.-made metal wall that will stretch about 7 miles and extend nearly 60 into the ground, the BBC is reporting.
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Centamin Egypt Limited: Sukari Gold Project Resource Upgrade
Marketwire - Thu Dec 10, 8:27 am ETTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 10, 2009) - Centamin Egypt Limited ("Centamin" or "the Company") (TSX:CEE)(ASX:CNT)(LSE:CEY) the gold mining group with operations in Egypt, is pleased to announce the following upgrade to its resources: The Sukari mineral resource upgraded to 10.29Moz Measured and Indicated, plus 3.45Moz Inferred Total Global Resource increased by 374,000 oz Au Measured and ...
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The women who guard other women in conservative Egypt
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 9:54 am ETHer hair neatly tucked under a Muslim headscarf, Dawlat al-Amine practises aikido regularly in a Cairo gym where she and her female colleagues learn martial arts to protect other women.
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No Moscow Mideast talks for now: Palestinian minister
AFP via Yahoo! News - 10 minutes agoPalestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki on Thursday rejected holding Middle East peace talks in Moscow in the absence of preliminary negotiations with Israel.
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Erdogan warns Israel on Iranian spying
UPI - 37 minutes agoWASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Israel would face dire consequences if it violated Turkish airspace to spy on Iran, the Turkish prime minister said in an interview with an Egyptian journalist.
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Pakistan arrests 5 N. Va. men
Washington Post - 39 minutes agoAfter arrest at house with jihadist ties, officials question them about possible links to terrorism.
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