El-Zend, who replaces a minister dismissed over classist comments, also has a record of controversial remarks and stances
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Journalists and other employees launched a partial strike and are threatening to institute a full strike by the end of the week if their demands are not met
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Activist Shaimaa El-Sabagh was shot by a policeman at a peaceful protest, causing local and international outcry
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224 pilots submitted resignations on Wednesday over objections to a newly-issued financial bylaws
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Smart cards aim to curb smuggling, and monitor consumption towards future rationing, minister tells Ahram Online
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi launched the fund in 2014 to create projects to bolster the economy
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Move stirs debate over whether future posts by activists and journalists will have legal consequences
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The warning follows a complaint from Al-Azhar that the show has attacked the fundamentals of Islam
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During a visit by the state's human rights body, prisoners say they were severely beaten, faced solitary confinement and not allowed basic rights of food and toilets
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To date, no women have been appointed as judges in Egypt's criminal courts
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An alleged leaked communiqué from the Cabinet to the agriculture ministry orders Brotherhood loyalists and sympathisers to be hunted down
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Leaders of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia announce on Monday from Khartoum a tentative solution to disputes over Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance dam
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Sharm El-Sheikh summit draws initial investment deals of up to $60 billion, as well as $12.5 billion in Gulf aid
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Ahram Online follows day two of the EEDC; Suez development project to cover 500 square kilometres and include three major economic zones
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El-Sisi opens Sharm conference for development; four Gulf countries pledge $12.5 billion in aid to Cairo; international leaders declare support for Egypt in war against terrorism
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Four parliaments have been disbanded in the last 30 years over unconstitutional elections laws
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Prominent human rights lawyer Abu Seada tells Ahram Online his forecast is based on the president's promise on Sunday to release a group of 'unjustly imprisoned Egyptians'
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The 25 defendants have been sentenced in absentia to 15 years in jail for an unauthorised protest in 2013 and are facing a retrial
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Ahram Online looks at cases of Egyptian truck drivers held by gunmen for ransom, Coptic Egyptians abducted and murdered in Libya since October 2013
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Egyptian private dollar accounts held up to $3.5 billion between 1988 and 2007, according to leaks
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