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Egypt
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Politics
1/29/2023 7:21:17 PM
MPs approved Sunday an agreement that allows Egypt to officially join the new Development Bank to be set up by the BRICS economic group which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/5/2023 5:24:20 PM
Egypt will do its best to ensure that political factions in Libya reach a political settlement and put an end to the current internal conflict gripping the country, said Hanafy El-Gebaly, speaker of Egypt's parliament.
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Egypt
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Politics
12/18/2022 6:29:07 PM
Egyptian MPs voted Sunday in favour of a new bill allowing local banks and authorities to exchange tax information with member countries of the Global Forum for Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
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Egypt
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Society
12/13/2022 4:34:00 PM
On Sunday, Egypt will start implementing Law 154/2019, published by the Official Gazette today, that requires owners of hundreds of thousands of unlicensed shops to legalise their businesses and that introduces restrictions on cafes serving shisha.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/13/2022 3:36:05 PM
An Egyptian parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Hanafy El-Gebaly left for Qatar’s capital of Doha on Tuesday to hold discussions on issues of mutual concern to the two countries.
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Egypt
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Society
12/6/2022 8:23:27 PM
Divorce rates in Egypt have soared, with the country recording approximately 25 divorces for every 100 new marriages, Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine El-Qabbaj said in the Parliament on Monday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/26/2022 12:25:00 PM
Egypt's parliament – the House of Representatives – lashed out on Friday at a European Parliament (EP) resolution on human rights in Egypt, describing it as “arrogant” and including a host of incorrect and misleading information.
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Egypt
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Politics
11/23/2022 9:52:00 AM
Egyptian MPs voted on Tuesday in favour of amendments banning the import, manufacturing, assembly, possession, use, operation, installation or marketing of any telecom equipment that is considered a threat to national security.
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Egypt
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Politics
11/21/2022 4:05:27 PM
Egyptian MPs approved on Sunday in principle legal amendments that would allow contractors who have suffered losses because of recent economic reforms to obtain financial compensation from the government.
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Egypt
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Politics
11/21/2022 2:31:37 PM
Egyptian MPs approved in principle on Sunday legislative amendments that would allow contractors who have suffered losses due to the recent economic reforms to obtain financial compensation from the government.
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Egypt
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Politics
10/16/2022 10:21:36 PM
The Egyptian parliament’s deputy speaker Ahmed Saadeddin said that a final vote on amendments to the 1966 Agriculture Law, which imposes harsher penalties for illegally building on farmland, will be postponed to a later session.
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Egypt
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Politics
10/12/2022 11:02:37 PM
The Egyptian Cabinet approved on Wednesday a new draft law on reconciliation on building violations after an outdated law, passed in March 2019, failed to address much of up to 2.8 million reconciliation requests submitted by citizens to the government.
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Egypt
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Politics
10/2/2022 6:13:54 PM
The pro-government Mostaqbal Watan (the Nation's Future) Party has dominated the elections for the leading posts of the Egyptian parliament's 25 committees for the third legislative season, which kicked off on Sunday.
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Egypt
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Society
8/11/2022 9:37:14 PM
The Egyptian parliament's Human Rights Committee slammed on Thursday foreign reports on the sudden death of a man detained by police in Alexandria, saying the reports are "unbalanced and politicised."
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Egypt
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Politics
7/4/2022 9:46:05 PM
The House of Representatives — the lower house of Egypt’s bicameral Parliament — approved on Sunday a number of legislative amendments to the law regulating the fund supporting disabled citizens (Law 200/2020) that was drafted and submitted by the Mostaqbal Watan Party, which holds a majority in the House.
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Egypt
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Politics
6/21/2022 10:20:01 PM
A report prepared by the Egyptian parliament's Budget Committee showed that the state's new FY 2022/23 budget will increase allocations to the country's 596-member parliament – the House of Representatives — to EGP 1.572 billion, up from EGP 1.471 billion in FY 2021/22.
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Egypt
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Politics
6/18/2022 7:07:46 PM
Egyptian MPs will submit urgent statements to the House of Representatives this week on Minister of Public Enterprise Hesham Tawfik’s plan to the liquidate El-Nasr Coke and Chemicals Company and to sell off public sector hotels.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/11/2022 10:19:47 PM
Speaker of Egypt's parliament – the House of Representatives – Hanafy El-Gebaly and Head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Al-Alimi met on Saturday to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries.
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Egypt
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Politics
6/4/2022 6:17:26 PM
Egypt’s Parliament — the House of Representatives — will reconvene this week to hold plenary sessions on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday to question Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea and Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad on their policies.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/30/2022 7:01:52 PM
The Russia-Ukraine crisis has led to Egypt’s projected growth rate being downgraded to 6 percent at the end of the current fiscal year and to an expected 5.7 percent in FY2022/23, Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El-Said said in a statement before the Senate – Egypt's consultative upper house.
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