At least 80 missing in Egypt Nile ferry collision
Reuters - 23 minutes agoTwo Nile river passenger ferries collided on Friday in northern Egypt, and close to 80 people were reported missing, security and ambulance sources said on Friday.
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Two Nile river passenger ferries collided on Friday in northern Egypt, and close to 80 people were reported missing, security and ambulance sources said on Friday.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Egyptian stocks rose the most since July after the government said the country wasn’t directly exposed to Dubai World debt. Orascom Construction Industries, the biggest publicly traded builder in Egypt, and Commercial International Bank led the EGX30 Index up 4 percent to 6,067.59 at the close in Cairo, its steepest increase since Aug. 23.
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Al Gore sits down with POLITICO to discuss climate issues and the U. N. conference in Copenhagen.
Turin, Italy - A convicted killer told an Italian court Friday that a mafia boss serving several life terms for a 1993 Cosa Nostra bombing campaign, told him that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was connected to the Sicilian criminal organis...