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AFP GAZA CITY INFLUENTIAL Muslim cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi warned on Thursday nobody was allowed to cede “any part of Palestine,” during a visit to the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave of Gaza. “No on…

REUTERS CAIRO EGYPT hopes to lower its budget deficit to 5.5 percent in the 2016-1017 fiscal year from 10.7 percent in 2012/13, the finance minister told Egypt’s Al- Ahram daily newspaper on Saturda…

REUTERS CAIRO EGYPT will import 900,000 barrels of oil a month from Libya starting in April and is paying off some of the money it owes to foreign energy firms, its oil minister was quoted as saying…

SATYENDRA PATHAK DOHA LEADERS of the Qatar- Egypt business council, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and Qatar Chamber Chairman Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin Mohammed al Thani discussed trade and e…

Providing political donations THOMAS P. DINAPOLI AND BILL DE BLASIO | NYT SYNDICATE on the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday gave a rousing show of support to Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama…

AP EL-ARISH AN Israeli and a Norwegian tourist who were abducted last week by Bedouin gunmen in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula were released early on Tuesday, security officials said. The two an Israeli ma…

REUTERS CAIRO Egypt Shura Council, the upper House of the Parliament, adopted on Thursday an electoral law as amended by the Constitutional Court, clearing the way for the President Mohammed Mahalla…

EGYPT’s constitutional court rejected five articles of a draft election law on Monday and sent the text back to the country’s temporary legislature for redrafting in a ruling that may delay a parlia…

REUTERS CAIRO EGYPT’S regulator said on Thursday it would extend until February 20 the deadline for Qatar National Bank to offer to buy out all the shares in National Societe Generale Bank. The Egyp…

ZAWYA DOW JONES DOHA PRIVATE equity firm Citadel Capital SAE and a group of Qatari investors have formed a joint venture to bring liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to Egypt, underlining the Gulf state’…

AFP CAIRO THE NEWLY formed Syrian opposition bloc that has received Arab and international backing is to be based in Egypt, its head Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib told MENA news agency on Monday. “It has bee…

AFP CAIRO EGYPT and Turkey put the onus on Israel on Saturday to end the fighting around Gaza as Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Cairo a day after Washington urged the two governments to pre…

AFP DOHA QATAR is to give Egypt $10 million (7.8 million euros) to help treat Palestinians wounded in Israeli air strikes on the neighbouring Gaza Strip, state news agency QNA reported on Saturday. …

REUTERS CAIRO EGYPT, a gas producer and exporter, has agreed to import Algerian gas and is in talks with Qatar for a similar deal, the prime minister said on Wednesday, a move that may help Egypt me…