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Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Other mentions of Egypt worth a skim

Other mentions of Egypt in the international news worth a skim include:

  • Egypt and Turkey sent artifacts — including antique gold coins — worth a combined total of USD 100 mn to the US in 2016, Live Science reports, citing US Census Bureau figures.
  • Local experts say Oil Minister Tarek El Molla’s decision last week to shuffle the heads of state-controlled oil and gas companies was a power play, according to Interfax Energy.
  • Egypt is upping the pressure on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end internal division and resuming Palestinian-Israeli peace efforts,” Al Jazeera says.
  • CBS News covers the story of 11-year-old Ziad Mohamed, the Egyptian boy who adapted to being born without limbs due to a rare disease by using soda bottles as prosthetics.
  • The discovery of an Ancient Egyptian colossus that was presumed to be of Ramsis II can make a difference by encouraging authorities to turn Matariya — which has fallen victim to illegal encroachment — into an open-air museum, Garry Shaw writes for Apollo Magazine.

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