Farid Zahran, an appointed member of the Egyptian Senate, was re-elected chairman of the leftist Egyptian Social Democratic Party on Friday.
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Deputy chairperson of Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Mohamed Anwar Esmat El-Sadat issued a statement on Tuesday indicating that the issue of political prisoners in Egypt will be “closed” in the near future.
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Ahram daily newspaper talked to Guy Ryder, the director-general of the International Labour Organisation, about the new challenges facing workers and economies across the world amid a multitude of crises, especially the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Egyptian authorities succeeded in releasing 20 Egyptian sailors who were held in Yemen over the past several days reportedly over charges of trespassing into Yemeni territorial waters without a permit.
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Egypt’s celebration of Labour Day is an opportunity to highlight the progress made by loyal Egyptian workers in building the “new republic,” President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in a recorded speech aired Sunday on the holiday, which is observed worldwide on 1 May.
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The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) hailed President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s recent decision to reactivate the Presidential Pardon Committee following the release of 41 pretrial detainees.
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Members of Egypt's two chambers of parliament – the House of Representatives and the Senate – joined the chorus of the country's political forces that welcomed President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's sudden call for conducting a wide-ranging national political dialogue.
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Egyptian authorities announced on Wednesday the release of 3,273 inmates with a presidential pardon on the occasion of Sinai Liberation day, which falls on 25 April.
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Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate lauded President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s recent call for conducting a broad national political dialogue represents "a leap in the political path of the Egyptian state after the revolutions of 25 January 2011 and 30 June 2013".
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Egypt has faced great challenges over the past years but achieved greater successes. Speaking at the Egyptian Family Iftar banquet on Tuesday, the president vowed to remain honest with Egyptians and loyal to the homeland.
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Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi assigned on Tuesday the National Youth Conference to conduct political dialogue with all parties and youth political powers on the current priorities of national action and to present its outcomes to him personally.
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Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, greeted President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and all citizens on Monday on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Sinai Liberation Day.
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War veterans Mohamed Abbas Mansour and Mahmoud Khalaf, who served in the 1973 October War, tell Ahmed Eleiba about the role played by the artillery corps to liberate Sinai and what is needed to protect Egypt
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In a televised speech to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Sinai Liberation Day, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi saluted the souls of Egyptian martyrs who gave their lives to liberate Sinai as well as the Egyptian diplomats who patiently fought to win every inch of it back through negotiations.
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Members of the Senate — Egypt’s consultative upper house of Parliament — teamed up in a plenary session on Saturday to call on the government to impose stricter control on foreign funding to local non-government organisations (NGOs) and all entities involved in civil society work.
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Mohamed Anwar Esmat El-Sadat — the former MP and the chairperson of the liberal-oriented Reform and Development Party — issued a statement on Friday responding to a controversial video that was recently released in the Ikhtiyar docuseries reportedly showing him politicking with the late Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
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The Senate – Egypt's consultative upper house of parliament – will reconvene Saturday to open a debate on the government's supervision of cash and in-kind donations granted to NGOs and charity organisations.
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Around the world, Orthodox Christian communities today mark the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, ahead of the resurection on Easter Sunday
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi signalled the beginning of the wheat harvest season in Toshka's agricultural lands in the Upper Egypt governorate of Aswan on Thursday morning, the presidential spokesman said.
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MP Farid El-Biaddi, a member of the leftist-oriented Egyptian Social Democratic Party, announced in a statement on Wednesday that his party's deputies have voted against the balance sheet of the state's 2020/21 budget.
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