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Egypt-Tunisia talks
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak held talks over two days with his Tunisian counterpart Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali this week to discuss the Middle East peace process, regional economic issues, EgyptÍs bid to join the Arab Maghreb Union and CairoÍs ongoing partnership negotiations with the European Union. -read on-
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Defending 'the right to water'
An international working group has met in Aswan to discuss how to better manage and develop the world's fresh water resources, Dahlia Hammouda writes
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Of democracy, freedom and globalisation
The speaker of the People's Assembly, in an apparent retraction of an earlier statement, said that the individual candidacy system will be retained in next year's parliamentary elections. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
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Rough weather for Sudan moves
What impact would the Djibouti Declaration of Principles issued by Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and opposition leader Sadeq Al-Mahdi have on the joint Egyptian-Libyan initiative, or that of IGAD? Not a very positive one, reports Dina Ezzat
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MPs sit-in the dock
Three MPs, standing trial in what is dubbed by the local press as the loan deputies case, staged an unusual sit-in inside the dock to protest a judicial order that hearings be postponed
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