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Mubarak 'stable' after abdominal surgery
PRESSTV Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:27:16 GMT
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is reportedly in a "stable condition," having undergone a surgical operation for the removal of his gall bladder,
Egypt murder conviction quashed
BBC Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:45:48 GMT
An Egyptian court has ordered the retrial of an Egyptian tycoon who was convicted and sentenced to death for killing his Lebanese pop star lover.
Egyptian blogger trial criticised
BBC Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:13:24 GMT
Egypt is strongly criticised by Human Rights Watch for trying a blogger who wrote about corruption before a military court.
Massive head of famous Egyptian pharaoh unearthed
BBC Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:55:38 GMT
A huge red granite head of one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs is unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, officials say.
ElBaradei: Youth can change undemocratic Egypt
PRESSTV Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:49:50 GMT
Former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei, a potential candidate for presidency in Egypt, says the country will only change through the young, report says.
ElBaradei to form 'change' group
BBC Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:27:38 GMT
Former IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei has announced he is forming a group promoting political change in Egypt.
Cartoon : Israeli's Crimes (contd.)
WORLDPRESSNETWORK 23 Feb 2010
By cartoonist Leon Kuhn whose work can also be seen on his own website http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk where postcards of some of his cartoons can be ordered.

See Leon Kuhn's page on "SpideredNews | Politics" at http://www.spiderednews.com/LeonKuhn.htm
Egypt Coptic murder trial opens
BBC Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:06:04 GMT
A court in Egypt adjourns the trial of three Muslim men charged with killing six Coptic Christians and a policeman.
Oh, brother
BBC Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:55:34 GMT
Conservatives head Egypt's new-look Muslim Brotherhood
Egypt arrests 3 top Brotherhood leaders
PRESSTV Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:47:32 GMT
Egyptian authorities have detained thirteen members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, including three senior leaders.
Egypt arrests Brotherhood members
ALJAZEERA Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:20:23 GMT
Security forces detain senior leaders and several activists in early morning raids.
Three times lucky
BBC Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:58:19 GMT
Cairo overjoyed as Egypt wins African Cup football
Egypt eye Cup record
BBC Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:01:07 GMT
Egypt will be seeking a record seventh Africa Cup of Nations title when they play Ghana in the final on Sunday.
Egypt's Mubarak defends construction of Gaza barrier
HAARETZ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:17:09 GMT+02:00
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has defended an underground steel wall along the border with neighboring Gaza as necessary for his nation's security. ...
Pan-Arab TV police plan 'disturbing': media watchdog
YAHOO Sat, 23 Jan 2010
A proposal to create a pan-Arab television monitor is a "disturbing" move that could could lead to censorship of broadcasts critical of Arab governments, a media watchdog said on Saturday.

The Saudi-Egyptian proposal to establish a regional office to supervise satellite broadcasters is aimed directly at Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, the Palestinian Hamas group's Al-Aqsa TV and Hezbollah's Al-Manar channel, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said.

"This proposal is disturbing, to say the least," the group said in a statement.

"The danger is that this super-police could be used to censor all TV stations that criticise the region's governments. It could eventually be turned into a formidable weapon against freedom of information."
Temple of ancient cat goddess found in Egypt
PRESSTV Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:34:28 GMT
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old temple as well as 600 Ptolemaic statues in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
INTERVIEW WITH HUNGER STRIKER, JOE FALLISI
PALTELEGRAPH Wed, 20 Jan 2010
We're in a room at the 'Sun Hotel' in Cairo where Joe Fallisi, an Italian tenor and human rights activist, has been on a hunger strike for the last 12 days to obtain a permit from the Egyptian authorities to enter the Gaza.

Joe, I know that you were at the hospital this morning for a check-up. How are you doing, physically?

I'm a bit tired, but I'm OK. They asked me if I might stay there under observation until tomorrow evening, but I prefer the hotel. I feel free-er.
The perils of young Egyptians' secret marriages
BBC Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:56:56 GMT
The BBC's Yolande Knell reports from Cairo on the practice of urfi marriages, informal and secret marriages between couples.
Hull sign Zaki for rest of season
BBC Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:25:44 GMT
Hull sign Egypt striker Amr Zaki on loan until the end of the season from Zamalek.
Egypt reach quarter-finals
BBC Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:34:01 GMT
African champions Egypt reach the last eight of the Africa Cup of Nations thanks to a 2-0 win over Mozambique.
Egypt builds anchorage to tighten Gaza siege
PRESSTV Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:57:05 GMT
The Egyptian government is building a dock at the Rafah border in an attempt to tighten up and make the blockade on Gaza stricter.

“The new anchorage will enhance the work of the Egyptian patrol boats on the sea border with Gaza and prevent any attempts of smuggling by sea,” a security source in North Sinai told Reuters on Thursday.

“It is to secure the area. It will be used to direct fishing boats in the area to ensure they do not cross the Israeli sea border and risk getting fired at,” he added.

According to Egyptian security sources, the anchorage will be 10 meters deep and 25 meters long.

The Egyptian building work was condemned by Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri who called it a “clear plan to cement the blockade and the siege on Gaza.”

The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli siege ever since the Hamas resistance movement won parliamentary elections in 2007.

To help Israel implement the siege, Cairo has also been building an underground wall along its border with the impoverished coastal sliver.

The wall destroys many tunnels along the border that have served as a crucial lifeline since Israel sealed off the strip from almost all vital supplies. The wall will be 9 to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) long, and will go as deep as 20 to 30 meters into the ground.

Palestinians say they use the tunnels to transport basic necessities including food and medicine to the besieged Gaza Strip.
Tombs of the pyramid builders discovered in Giza, Egypt
INDEPENDENT Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:21:42 GMT
An archaeological team led by Dr. Zahi Hawass has discovered several new tombs that belong to the workers who built the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre. “This is the first time to uncover tombs like the ones that were found during the 1990’s, which belong to the late 4th and 5th Dynasties (2649-2374 BC),” said Dr. Hawass.
Israel plans wall for Egypt border
ALJAZEERA Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:58:01 GMT
Israel's premier authorises new barrier on part of the Egyptian-Israeli border.
Israel to construct Egypt barrier
BBC Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:49:24 GMT
Israel's government approves plans to build a barrier along its border with Egypt in a bid to keep out illegal migrants and militants.
Egyptian MP resigns in protest of steel wall
PRESSTV Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:16:05 GMT
An Egyptian lawmaker has resigned in protest of parliament's agreement with the government to build a steel wall on the border with the Gaza Strip.
Egypt clashes after Copt killings
BBC Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:55:27 GMT
Clashes have broken out in the southern Egyptian town where seven people were killed in a drive-by shooting outside a Coptic Christmas Eve Mass.
MP Galloway deported from Egypt
BBC Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:23:07 GMT
Respect MP George Galloway has been deported from Cairo.
Pro-Gaza activists under siege - imposed by Egypt and Hamas
HAARETZ Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:56:56 GMT+02:00
The departure from Ramses Street in Cairo, in about 20 buses, was set for the morning of Monday, December 28. However, the organizers of the Gaza Freedom March knew the buses would not arrive. Just as on Sunday night, the buses hired by a group of French activists never made it to their starting point - Cairo's Charles de Gaulle Street, near the French Embassy and across from the zoo. ...
Egypt 'deports aid convoy leader'
ALJAZEERA Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:10:42 GMT

George Galloway, the British MP leading the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to the Gaza Strip has been forced to leave Egypt, the group has said on its website.

Galloway was apparently picked up by Egyptian officials at the Rafah border crossing on Friday and driven to Cairo where he was placed on a flight back to London.

Galloway told Al Jazeera by telephone from the airport that he had been harassed by about 25 Egyptian police officer as he attempted to re-enter Gaza to join the rest of the Viva Palestina activists. 

He said Egyptian officials told him he was being sent out of the country and was now "persona non grata".

The Egyptian foreign ministry later issued a statement saying Galloway would not be allowed to return to the country.

Galloway has been vocal in his criticism of Egyptian authorities in recent days after their decision not to allow the about 200 vehicles in the convoy to arrive in Egypt through the port at Nuweiba.

Cairo insisted that the aid be sent back through Syria and then by ferry to the port of El-Arish on the Mediterranean.

Egypt deports MP George Galloway
INDEPENDENT Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:15:14 GMT
George Galloway was deported from Cairo today despite wanting to return to Gaza to help members of a humanitarian convoy who have reportedly been arrested, a spokeswoman for the convoy said.
BRITISH MP GEORGE GALLOWAY in CAIRO ‘Deportation’
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Fri, 08 Jan 2010
British MP George Galloway was officially deported from Cairo today (Friday), when Egyptian uniformed plain clothes police officers bundled him onto a London plane. Galloway had been trying to return to Rafah after news broke that seven of the Viva Palestina convoy members were said to be arrested.

Police – who at one point were numbered at 25 mainly plain clothes officers, refused him to return.
Several officers even followed Galloway to the toilet, rest room and a BA lounge.

Picture below is of one officer, presumed to be from Mukhabarat which was taken outside the BA lounge airside.
The incident began after George Galloway and his colleague Ron McKay arrived at the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt. As soon as they emerged onto Egyptian soil both Men were forcibly pushed into a van, refused exit and told that they were leaving the country. They were then driven off in a police convoy.

Viva Palestina convoy of 550 people from 17 countries was attacked by Egyptian riot police and plain clothes intelligence officers in the early hours of Wednesday (6th January). 55 of the convoy members were injured and 7 were also arrested.

However Galloway and Turkish MP’s struck a deal with Egyptian authorities, part of this deal was that the 7 detainees were released without charge.

On the enforced drive to Cairo, news came through of the imminent arrest of the 7 but when Galloway demanded to return to Rafah, permission was repeatedly denied.

For further information please call Alice Howard on Tel: 07944 512 469 or via email at alice@vivapalestina.org

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Alice Howard
Viva Palestina UK – Administration Manager
Tel: +447944 512 469
Email: alice@vivapalestina.org
Website: http://www.vivapalestina.org/
George Galloway deported from Egypt
GUARDIAN Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:08:27 GMT
Respect MP has spent past month travelling from London to deliver aid and supplies to Gaza Strip George Galloway was deported from Egypt today after plainclothes police officers bundled the Respect MP on to a plane bound for London.
Protest outside Egyptian embassy in Paris
PRESSTV Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:09:05 GMT
A crowd of French Muslim thronged in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Paris Wednesday, protesting the country's policies of collaboration with Israel against the Palestinians.
Galloway: New Gaza convoys won't cross Egypt
PRESSTV Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:48:27 GMT
British lawmaker George Galloway says no more aid convoys destined for the besieged Gaza Strip will pass through Egyptian territory as its authorities caused troubles for Viva Palestina convoy to enter the Palestinian enclave.
Turks protest Egypt's attack on Viva Palestina
PRESSTV Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:56:56 GMT
Thousands of angry protesters in Turkey have staged a demonstration in the capital Istanbul to condemn the Egyptian police crackdown on a Gaza-bound aid convoy.
VIVA! VIVA! PALESTINA!
Viva Palestina Starts Entry To Gaza - Report by George Galloway
INFORMATIONCLEARINGHOUSE Thu, 07 Jan 2010
The Viva Palestina Convoy, and after facing ongoing Egyptian rejection and violent attacks by the Egyptian security forces, started on Wednesday evening to roll into the besieged Gaza Strip.

Thousands of Palestinians, carrying flowers and flags, gathered in the streets while the convoy continued to move in.

A Press conference would be held on Thursday and would be followed by the official ceremony of handing the international humanitarian aid.

The Qatar-based Al Jazeera reported that a convoy of eight truck started crossing the Rafeh Terminal.

On its website the Viva Palestina reported that “convoy continues to move into the strip to be greeted by flowers and flag-waving crowds. Press conference later to be followed tomorrow with ceremony to hand over the aid”.
Dozens hurt in Egypt-Gaza clashes
BBC Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:25:41 GMT
Egyptian security forces clash with activists seeking to take a convoy of trucks carrying relief supplies to Gaza.
Egyptian forces wound 2 Palestinians on Gaza border
REUTERS Wed, 6 January 2010
Egyptian forces shot and wounded at least two Palestinians on Wednesday during a violent protest on the Egypt-Gaza border against an underground steel wall Egypt is building to block smuggling tunnels, medical officials said
Egypt opens Rafah crossing for three days
PRESSTV Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:33:18 GMT
Under intense international pressure, Egypt has temporarily opened the Rafah border crossing, allowing those with permits to cross into the Gaza Strip.
Egypt temporarily opens Gaza border crossing - Numerous protests have been held in Egypt and Israel against the Gaza siege - The Viva Palestina convoy, with 210 lorries, which set out from the UK nearly a month ago, arrived in the Egypt on Sunday.
ALJAZEERA Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:36:16 GMT
Cairo announces three-day opening as Gaza march activists begin to head home.

On the Egyptian side of the border, hundreds of international activists held repeated protests around Cairo this week demanding the authorities permanently reopen the crossing point.

Around 1,300 members of the Gaza Freedom March (GFM) had gathered in Egypt from more than 40 countries to march to Gaza with aid and supplies as a sign of solidarity with the Palestinians there.

However, Egyptian authorities barred the group from crossing the border, citing security reasons, and instead offering to allow 100 members to cross.

Up to 92 delegates did eventually cross into Gaza, meeting with non-governmental organisations and witnessing first-hand the devastation wrought by last year's war and the continuing siege of the Strip, march organisers told Al Jazeera.

Many of the GFM activists were leaving Cairo on Sunday for their respective countries with a sense of accomplishment, Ann Wright, a co-ordinator for the march, said.

On Friday, the Gaza Freedom March approved the "Cairo Declaration" , a document calling for the end of Israeli occupation and Palestinian self-determination, as well as for "boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to compel Israel to comply with international law".

Meanwhile, a long-delayed aid convoy destined for the Gaza Strip is expected to arrive in the coastal territory on Monday.

The Viva Palestina convoy, with 210 lorries full of medicine and other supplies, set out from the UK nearly a month ago.

A ferry carrying the supplies reportedly arrived in the Egyptian port El Arish on the Mediterranean on Sunday after sailing from Latakia in Syria.
Gaza aid convoy leaves Syria
ALJAZEERA Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:22:48 GMT
Lorries carrying long-delayed humanitarian supplies expected to reach Gaza on Monday.
Egyptian police attack pro-Gaza activists
PRESSTV Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:39:01 GMT
Egyptian police have attacked some 1,200 international activists who had gathered at the Rafah border crossing to protest against the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Falk slams Egypt for Rafah wall
PRESSTV Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:08:20 GMT
A UN human rights expert has deplored the construction of a wall along Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, terming it as a sign of complicity between Washington and Cairo.
US to sell 24 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt
PRESSTV Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:03:24 GMT
US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has agreed to sell 24 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in a deal worth $3.2 billion, a company spokesman says.
Egypt blocks US activists' march
ALJAZEERA Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:51:33 GMT
Police in Cairo attempt to stop US activists from approaching the American embassy.
Stop building steel wall, Nasrallah tells Egypt
PRESSTV Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:49:14 GMT
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has called on the Egyptian government to halt the construction of a huge steel wall along its border with the besieged Gaza Strip meant to cut supply tunnels.
Galloway in fresh Gaza convoy plea
ALJAZEERA Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:59:21 GMT
UK politician again urges Egypt to allow aid convoy access to Gaza through Red Sea port.
Palestinians protest Egyptian steel barrier
PRESSTV Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:12:46 GMT
Palestinians have held a mass demonstration against Egypt's construction of an underground wall along the border with the Gaza Strip which claimed its first victim on Friday.
VIVAPALESTINA3 - International Aid Convoy HUNGER STRIKE
WORLDPRESSNETWORK Sun, 27 Dec 2009
Members of the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to Gaza will begin a hunger strike at 11.25 am tomorrow (27th) in protest at the Egyptian government's refusal to allow the convoy entry onto its soil.

Diplomatic negotiations are also taking place between the Turkish and Egyptian governments over the convoy's entry to Egypt. IHH, Turkey's main humanitarian aid agency, has 63 vehicles travelling on the convoy.

The Syrian government has also provided aid and vehicles, as has the government of Malaysia. More than 400 people from 17 countries are travelling on the 150 vehicle convoy, which is taking medical, humanitarian and educational aid to Gaza.

The convoy departed London on 6 December and have travelled nearly 3,000 miles across Europe and the Middle East. However, the convoy and its cargo of aid is now stopped in the Jordanian port town of Aqaba, having been denied entry into Egypt.

British MP, George Galloway, who is travelling with the convoy, said: 'Israel has kept Gaza under siege for three-and-half years against international law. It has not allowed aid or rebuilding materials in following its attack on Gaza earlier this year. Our convoy is determined to break the siege and take in urgently needed supplies Spirits are high in our camp in Aqaba, and we are going nowhere except to Gaza.'

It was at 11.25 am on December 27 2008, that Israel dropped its first bombs on the besieged population of Gaza. Three weeks later, following a sustained air, land and sea assault, more than 1,400 Palestinians had been killed.

The Viva Palestina hunger strikers will consume only liquids until the convoy is allowed entry into Egypt.

Convoy members will also mark the first anniversary of the beginning of Israel's Operation Cast Lead by holding a march through Aqaba, jointly with the Jordanians. In the evening, more than 1,400 candles will be lit for a vigil.

The convoy has been jointly organised by the charity Viva Palestina and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the UK's largest organisation campaigning for solidarity with the Palestinian people.

For more information on Viva Palestina and updates visit"...

http://www.vivapalestina.org
Egypt using 'bureaucracy' against besieged Gazans
PRESSTV Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:36:13 GMT
British lawmaker and anti-war activist George Galloway says Egypt is using bureaucracy as a pretext to impede humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
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