Sandstorm hits Egypt – Ahramonline

Top Headlines

• Prominent Al Jazeera journalist and Muslim Brotherhood supporter Ahmed Mansour has been released by the German authorities (Monday)
• Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza for the third time in a month (Tuesday)
• GCC is not expected to provide Egypt with additional aid during FY2015/2016 (Sunday) 

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Prominent Al Jazeera journalist and Muslim Brotherhood supporter Ahmed Mansour has been released by the German authorities
• United States provides two Fast Missile Craft to the Egyptian navy
• At least eight policemen and civilians were wounded when explosions hit two houses in Sinai’s Al-Arish
• Five suspected militants were killed in a security raid in North Sinai
• Egypt’s Sisi meets head of Sinai’s development body
• Discontent persists among families of activists excluded from the presidential amnesty
• Egypt’s endowments ministry to remove “extremist books” from mosques
• Egypt agrees deal with BP for LNG supply

Tuesday

• Egypt’s army receives multipurpose frigate in France
• Egypt digs trench along the border with Gaza to prevent smuggling
• Egypt opens Rafah border with Gaza for the third time in a month
• Released Egyptian journalist praises Erdogan and Davutoglu
• S. ambassador to Egypt lauded the Egyptian interior ministry’s efforts to combat terrorism
• British intelligence spied on an Egyptian NGO
• 2 journalists in custody on charges of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood
• Egypt has removed over 4,000 ‘encroachments’ on the Nile

Wednesday

• Russia to sign free trade zone agreement with Egypt
• Egyptian TV presenter Islam El-Beheiry was acquitted of blasphemy charges
• Sources: Government cancels a memorandum of understanding with Emirati investor on new capital
• Two wounded as mortar missile hits house in North Sinai
• Wikileaks cable reveals deal to exclude Saudi prince from Egypt’s smuggling probe
• Egypt’s ranking has deteriorated sharply over the last year in the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index
• UN official to visit Egypt Thursday to address sexual harassment
• Water pipe was bombed in Sharqiya

Thursday

• Egypt and the United States to hold a “strategic dialogue” in July
• Cameron repeated his hopes to welcome Sisi in Britain
• Two Brotherhood leaders have been detained for instigating the murder of army and policemen
• Egypt signs largest seismic exploration deal in the Mediterranean
• Egyptian security forces prevent migrants from entering Libya
• Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial of two Al Jazeera journalists to June 29
• Nine arrested in Cairo over an online execution video
• Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing on Thursday after a three-day opening period
• International credit agency Moody’s has marked Egypt’s draft budget as “credit negative”

Friday

• Egypt says the US Department of State’s annual human rights report “lacks accuracy”
• 10 suspected militants were killed in North Sinai
• Sources: Government bans press statements on new administrative capital project
• ISIS-inspired video shows man killed for alleged cooperation with police
• Abouel Fotouh’s early elections proposal has backfired
• Nour Party says it will not participate in June 30 celebrations (Arabic)
• Egypt seeks up to 175,000 tonnes of gasoline for August
• Egypt jumps 6 spots in Global Peace Index 2015
• Court upholds nationalization of Nile Cotton Ginning Company

 Saturday

• Egypt sees sandstorm and earthquake on the same day
• Sisi raises social pension by 10 percent
• Report: Stability achieved by authorities in Egypt is fake
• Dostor Party moves forward with new campaign after internal dispute
• Alexandria breaks world record for longest iftar table,ndespite scuffles
• 70 percent of Islamic Art Museum has been restored

Sunday

• Sisi receives draft protocol for “Joint Arab Forces”
• Small bomb explodes at Saudi consulate in Cairo‪
• Official: GCC is not expected to provide Egypt with additional aid during FY2015/2016
• Families of detained journalists Battawy & Shawkan commence sit-in at the journalist syndicate
• British army trains 31 Egyptian military officers
• Senior Israeli diplomat visits Cairo to discuss Palestinian peace talks
• Sisi announces ambitious plans for hepatitis C
• Disappeared Esraa El-Taweel to face prosecution for spreading false news
• Eating in public during Ramadan fast not a crime: Egyptian interior ministry‪
• Egypt sentences 3 to year in prison over racy music video

 Good reports

• Egypt’s imprisonment of journalists is at an all-time high. The Committee to Protect Journalists
• For Egypt, TV show’s shocking twist is its sympathetic Jews. David Kirkpatrick
• Welcome to Egypt’s fake wedding. Ahmed Feteha
• Who is Mansour, journalist sought by Egypt? BBC Monitoring
• From smuggling to trafficking: Is irregular migration from Egypt changing for the worse? Tom Rollins
• Egypt economic monitoring, spring 2015. The World Bank

Good Read

• Practicing Politics by Proxy: Turkey and Egypt. Magid Atef
• Why Corruption Lingers in Cairo. Nizar Manek and Jeremy Hodge
• Manipulating the Past: Who writes the history of Egypt? Ramy Oraby
• Ambassadorial Doaa El-Bey

From twitter

Interview

• TV series about history of Egypt’s Jews misleading: Albert Arie. Dina Ezzat

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Finally here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt