Regional contacts
SAUDI Crown Prince Abdullah wrapped up a four-day visit to Egypt on Saturday, after several rounds of talks with President Hosni Mubarak.
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Nurturing talent
 MRS SUZANNE Mubarak was honoured last Thursday at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), headquarters in Geneva by Kamil Idris, director general of the WIPO, where she received a citation for her leadership in stimulating creativity and innovation among children and for enhancing respect for the notion of intellectual property.
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Back to the future
Stability in the Middle East requires more than a happy ending for the troubled peace process, says Foreign Minister Amr Moussa. Dina Ezzat reports
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Trying to be united
Solidarity was urged by Islamic parliamentarians but a rift over who would be chair, among other divisive issues, showed a fair measure of disunity, writes Gamal Essam El-Din
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Chasing away the cloud
IN AN EFFORT to prevent the return of the "black cloud" which hovered over Cairo last summer and spewed soot over large parts of the capital, state minister for environmental affairs Nadia Makram Ebeid made a surprise field visit on Saturday to areas peppered with metal-smelting foundries in Giza. reports Mahmoud Bakr
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Corruption stigma haunts NDP
Corrupt ruling party MPs, and their business confederates, had the book thrown at them at the conclusion of the so-called "loan deputies case" last week. Can the NDP wipe the stain? Gamal Essam El-Din investigates
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Lawyers strike back
A decision to delay Bar Association elections indefinitely has sparked protests by lawyers throughout the country, reports Mona El-Nahhas
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Prominent NGO figure arrested
Does the state object to the foreign funding of civil society organisations in principle, or merely to the mishandling of these funds? One of many questions raised by the arrest, this week, of Saadeddin Ibrahim, a prominent sociologist and NGO figure. Mariz Tadros and Jailan Halawi report
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More space in space
Egypt's second media satellite will soon be launched. Rehab Saad looks at an improved and even cheaper model
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Obituary: In the name of the rose
Amidst a flood of memories, Fatemah Farag watches a subdued funeral from the placid waters of the Nile
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