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Egypt tourism minister to visit Saudi after decision to cut pilgrim numbers
Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou will visit Saudi Arabia to discuss latter's decision to cut number of pilgrims to Mecca, Medina by 20 percent.
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Qatar to supply Egypt with 5 shipments of LNG - as a "gift"
Qatar will offer a grant to Egypt in form of five natural gas shipments from July to September, according to CNN Arabic.
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9 European factories to be opened in Egypt
Egypt's Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Hatem Saleh has announced plans to allow nine European firms to open factories in Egypt.
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Egyptian tablet iNar: The specs and facts
Locally-manufactured tablet iNar will hit the shelves in June 2013 for LE1,550, according to AlMasry AlYoum.
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Egypt FM to Ethiopia for 'life or death' water talks
Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr will travel to Ethiopia "in the coming days to give the Egyptian point of view" on the project.
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Egypt’s consumer inflation inches up to 8.2% in May
The inflation was pushed up by food prices and a weaker currency, the state statistics agency CAPMAS said on Monday.
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Zaazou: Egyptian tourism sector a "dark horse"
Zaazou said that four million Egyptians work in the tourism sector, around which 70 other industries cluster.
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IMF expects Egypt economy to slow next fiscal year
The report predicted that annual inflation rates would increase by the end of this year to 10.8%, compared to 8.4% in the previous fiscal year.
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Officials take note: there's no easy cure to electricity crises
Consumption soars, while the rural poor, without grid connections, benefit little in several countries.
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Football star Drogba buys shares in Egypt's Sawiris Ivorian mine
Didier Drogba buys a 5 percent stake in an Ivorian gold mine which is 55 percent controlled by Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris.
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First India-Egypt dialogue begins in Cairo
The AUC in coordination with the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi hosts the first session of the Indian-Egyptian dialogue.
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Egypt forex reserves increase to $16.04bln
This is the second consecutive increase after Egypt’s foreign currency reserves rose to $14.42bn in April.
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ILO blacklists Egypt on labor freedom ground, as protests doubled
Labor protests had doubled ever since President Mohamed Morsi had been elected in June 2012.
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27.4% rise in company establishment in Q1/2013: AlMal
Businessmen and entrepreneurs focused on service and construction companies, while retracting from the tourism, agriculture and finance sectors.
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Egypt considers banning Viber, WhatsApp
Egypt's telecommunication regulating body is considering barring these mobile applications for their impact on investments and security.
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US waives condition on USD 1.3B in aid to Egypt
The Obama administration has waived the conditional human rights string attached to Egypt's USD 1.3 billion in US military support for 2013.
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Saudi tourists seek to stay away from Egypt
Several people are wondering how long it will take for Egypt to be back as Saudi tourists' favorite vacation destination.
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Egypt report blames balloon crash on pilot, leak
A hot air balloon accident killing 19 tourists in Egypt was caused by the "grave" pilot error that caused a gas leakage, police forensic report said.
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Nile issue, political instability lead to Egypt's stock market slump
Performance decline of the stock market was blamed on the tension caused by the Ethiopian Dam and the awaited anti-government protest on June 30.
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Egypt's gathering economic gloom leaves millions facing food shortages
As post-revolution Egypt faces its worst financial crisis since the 1930s, food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty rates are rising.