An Egyptian worker at a gas station fuels up in Cairo on Saturday. (Khaled Elfiqi/ EPA)

Main Headlines

Monday

• Most 30 June leaders are not celebrating the first anniversary
• In speech marking June 30 protests, Sisi vows to press forward with roadmap
• Two police officers were killed in explosions near Presidential Palace
• Sisi approves revised budget with deficit at 10 percent of GDP
• Egypt prepares for LE44 billion fuel subsidy cuts in new fiscal year
• Pro-Morsi alliance calls for “day of rage” on 3 July

Tuesday

• Prosecution claims men disguised as garbage collectors planted explosives near Presidential palace
• Egypt’s richest man Nassef Sawiris sentenced to 3 years in jail on tax evasion
• Mass food poisoningat iftar in Upper Egypt
• Ethiopian Damtripartite committee to meet soon in Cairo
• Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and UAE pardon 152 Egyptian prisoners
• Cairo University to donate 20 million pounds ($2.8 mill) to Sisi’s Fund. Arabic

Wednesday

• The office of Tony Blair has released a statement denies that Tony Blair is a formal advisor to Sisi.
• 17 students arrested during a student protest at Ministry of Education
• Prosecutions charge high school students with violating protest law
• Anti-Coup leaders arrested in ‘barbaric raids’: Muslim Brotherhood
• Court suspends jail sentence and fine in tax case against Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris following an appeal
• Army destroys tunnels, arrests ‘intruders’ and captures marijuana in Sinai
• Egypt imposes 10 percent tax on capital gains and stock dividends

 Thursday

• Cabinet agrees to phase out electricity subsidies over five years
• Interior Ministry: 196 were arrested in Thursday’s demonstrations –
• ‪Egyptian pound steady on official market, stronger on black market
• Police officer is implicated in Rafah Massacre suspect’s escape attempt
• Spokesman of pro-Morsi alliance was arrested on Monday
• Wanted Brotherhood member tells demonstrators the army is a legitimate target

 Friday

• Fayoum bomb kills four assemblers.
• Egyptian police defuse 150 explosive devices in 3 months: Spokesman
• 2 die in Cairo in clashes as pro-Morsi protestors mark a year after ousting
• Egypt’s prosecutor-general orders investigation into police rape claim
• ‪Egyptraises fuel prices by up to 78 percent from midnight
• Egypt’s deficit hits 9.3% of GDPin first 11 months of current fiscal year

 Saturday

• Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison
• Egypt raises gas prices for industries by up to 75%
• Egyptian microbus drivers concerned over petrol prices hikes
• Egyptian government says public transport fares immune are immune to price hike
• Imprisoned Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy ‪ has been admitted to hospital
• Wasat Party’s Sultan has been acquitted of charges of insulting judiciary
• Egyptian Popular Current to form a political party

Sunday

• ‪Egypt raises taxes on cigarettes and alcohol
• Sisi ‘wishes’ jailed Jazeera reporters had not been put on trial
• Sisi says independence for Iraq’s Kurds would be “catastrophic”
• Egyptian political parties weary of fuel price hikes
• ‘No shame’ in Egypt using Israeli gas through British oil company: Petroleum minister
• Egyptian stocks up despite low turnover as investors react to energy price hikes
• Hundreds of writers, intellectuals endorse call to rescind Egypt’s protest law
• Egyptian delegation in UAE to discuss investments

 Good Reports

• Catastrophic decline in human rights one year after ousting of Morsi. Amnesty
• Egyptians brace for broad price hikes after fuel subsidy cuts. Mada Masr
• Egyptians fume over fuel subsidy cuts. Summer Said
• More people, less water mean rising food imports for Egypt. Maggie Fick and Shadi Bushra
• Egyptian official denies torture, says prison is like a hotel. Laura King and Amro Hassan ‪
• New ‪ terror group adopting ‘lone wolf’ approach “lone wolf” approach. Al-Monitor

 Good Read

• The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s failures.Ashraf El-Sherif
• Where is Sisi taking Egypt? David Ottaway
• “Catastrophic” it is! Rana Allam
• Shame on Al-Masry Al-Youm Ursula Lindsey
• The fight over Egypt’s mosques: The state versus the pulpit. Randa Ali

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• Fast, eat and pray in the holy month of Ramadan
• 30 June 2013

Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt