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Illustrative: Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)
June 29, 2018, 8:31 am
With cries of ‘false news,’ Egypt looks to monitor popular social media users
Under new bill, users with 5,000 followers would be supervised by Supreme Council for Media Regulation, which would be able to suspend accounts
By Bassem Aboualabass and Aziz El Massassi
Egyptian MP Nawshi al-Dabi appears on Egyptian TV on January 3, 2018. (Screen capture: MEMRI)
February 5, 2018, 4:50 pm
Egyptian MP calls for scrapping ‘shameful’ peace deal with Israel
Nashwa Al-Dib accuses Israelis of ‘sucking the blood of the children,’ says kids must learn ‘our number one enemy is the Zionist entity’
By TOI staff
The Red Sea islands of Tiran, in the foreground, and Sanafir, in the background, sit at the the Strait of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
June 14, 2017, 7:01 pm
Egypt parliament okays island transfer to Saudi Arabia
Constitutional court still expected to review legality of deal for Tiran and Sanafir, which has angered many in the country
By AFP
The Red Sea islands of Tiran, in the foreground, and Sanafir, in the background, sit at the the Strait of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
June 11, 2017, 8:58 pm
Egypt parliament in tumultuous meet over Saudi islands pact
Speaker Ali Abdel-Al, a staunch Sissi backer, looks to win lawmakers’ approval for controversial transfer of Tiran and Sanafir to Riyadh
By Hamza Hendawi
In this Dec. 11, 2016 file photo, an Egyptian Coptic nun weeps as she looks at damage inside the St. Mark Cathedral in central Cairo, following a bombing. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
April 12, 2017, 3:32 am
Churches in southern Egypt will not celebrate Easter
Coptic diocese in city of Minya says festivities canceled in mourning for 45 Christians murdered in IS terror attacks this week
By MENNA ZAKI
Mohamed Anwar Sadat speaking in the Egyptian parliament. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 28, 2017, 6:53 pm
Egyptian parliament boots nephew of Anwar Sadat
Mohamed Anwar Sadat, whose president uncle was assassinated over peace deal with Israel, says his expulsion a warning to opposition
By AFP
Residents pass a kiosk, center, that is used as a clinic where girls are circumcised by a barber, in the Imbaba area of Giza, Egypt, Novenbe 26, 2012. (AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
August 31, 2016, 11:04 pm
Egypt parliament toughens penalties for female circumcision
Those caught carrying out genital mutilation, prevalent in Egypt but criminalized in 2008, could face 7 years in prison
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
MK Ksenia Svetlova of the Zionist Union party as a new member of the Israeli Knesset, March 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
June 8, 2016, 7:11 pm
Sissi’s peace push still on the table, Egyptian MPs tell Israeli MK
Zionist Union’s Ksenia Svetlova ‘cautiously optimistic’ for regional peace initiative after ‘positive’ talks on water issues with MPs from Arab states
By Marissa Newman
SodaStream’s West Bank factory was relocated to the Negev following international criticism. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/via JTA)
March 8, 2016, 2:35 pm
TOI talks: Finding Waze out of the occupation, gently down the SodaStream
On this week’s episode: Placing blame for the dismissal of Palestinian workers; a huge military clash in Qalandiya after two soldiers got lost; taking the Donald seriously; and fraying Israel-Egypt relations
By Raoul Wootliff
Haim Koren, Israeli ambassador to Egypt, October 2013 (screen capture/YouTube/medisraelforfred)
February 28, 2016, 11:23 pm
Israeli envoy to Egypt: I won’t be deterred by shoe-throwing
After Egyptian MP is attacked for hosting him, Haim Koren says he meets regularly with el-Sissi and ‘countries have shared interest in fighting terror’
By Tamar Pileggi
In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addresses parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. (MENA via AP)
February 13, 2016, 4:50 pm
Sissi claims Egypt has completed transition to democratic rule
In speech interrupted by shouts of ‘We love you, Mr. President!’ he also declares Palestinian cause is vital to all Egyptians
By TOI staff and AP
A man arrives to vote on October 17, 2015, on the eve of Egypt's parliamentary elections at the Egyptian Embassy in central London. (AFP/JACK TAYLOR)
October 18, 2015, 6:49 am
Egypt expected to rubber stamp pro-Sissi parliament at ballot box
No drama in store as voting kicks off, with almost all candidates for 596-member body, dissolved since 2012, backing popular president
By AFP
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, speaks at the funeral of the top public prosecutor Hisham Barakat, killed in a terrorist attack, June 30, 2015. (Egyptian Presidency via AP, File)
July 7, 2015, 5:52 am
Egypt anti-terror bill speeds trials, restricts press
Media bemoans ‘disastrous’ measures that would have reporters jailed for not toeing government line on attacks
By Sarah El Deeb
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi addresses the nation in a televised speech on Tuesday, July 2. (photo credit: AP Photo/Egyptian State Television)
July 3, 2013, 2:26 am
23 killed in Cairo overnight, but Morsi remains defiant
With miltary’s deadline looming, embattled Egyptian leader makes clear he won’t quit, accuses Mubarak loyalists of pushing for his ouster
By Michal Shmulovich and AP
Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo/File)
May 28, 2013, 1:39 am
Egypt president sends draft NGO law to parliament
Morsi says bill aims to enforce transparency and strike a balance with revolutionary principle of openness
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