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    Egypt Limits Official Contact With Israel

    Apr 03, 2002 10:15 PM EST

    Egyptian Information Minister Safwat el-Sherif told the Middle East News Agency on Wednesday, "Egypt will suspend all diplomatic contacts with Israel except those that serve the Palestinian cause." The decision means official communications between the two countries will be curtailed and the Israeli ambassador, while allowed to stay in ...

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    Egyptian Train Fire Kills at Least 370, Injures Dozens

    Feb 20, 2002 10:00 PM EST

    ... the Associated Press reports. The government did not claim responsibility for the fire. The train was an old, slow-moving model used mostly by poor Egyptians. It was also used to carry daily newspapers to villages along the River Nile. The rail crash is Egypt's deadliest in more than ...

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    Aftershocks in Egypt

    Nov 30, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    ... applicants. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: They can't apply for being a candidate. DR. ESSAM ELERIAN: Yes. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Dr. El Erian is vice president of the Egyptian Doctor's Syndicate, a professional union, and he said he fears it could be shut down now by the government just because he, a ...

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    Newsmaker: Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher El Sayed

    Nov 28, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    Following a backround report, Margaret Warner talks to Egypt's foreign minister, Ahmed Maher El Sayed, about the future of Afghanistan and the roots of Islamic terrorism and anti-Americanism in the Arab world.

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    Man of Letters: Egyptian Playwright Ali Salem

    Nov 27, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    ... expressing their ancient views clouded by hatred emanating from other, from other stages of history. These people who hate America are not representatives of the Egyptian people. People in Egypt were horrified when they saw the destruction of the two towers-- were horrified, were very sad, very gloomy. So we ...

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    Egypt's Reaction: The U.S. and the War Against Terrorism

    Nov 23, 2001 05:00 AM EST

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Dia'a Rashwan has studied Egypt's radical Islamic movements for two decades at the "al-Ahram" think tank. He said the men in Imbaba may fear they could be targeted next. DIA'A RASHWAN: You could have, in my mind, many... a lot of new groups which ...

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