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Still current at: 31 July 2014
Updated: 31 July 2014
Latest update: Summary - the FCO now advise against all but essential travel to within 50km of the Libya border and the desert areas in...
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A-Four suggests: It is more than likely that he's moved over to 'the Betty Davis eyes group' on the Southbank.
You might be right. The present guy at MI6, John Sawyers, was ambassador here in Cairo...
A video released by Egyptian news website Masrawy showing teenagers shooting a pellet gun at a lion at Giza Zoo has triggered condemnation on social media.
The footage showed an agitated female lion...
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Nice one Zooropa.
Comes from raising three generations of children with very inquiring minds.
Ride in style: Egypt's pioneering female motorcyclists
Ahram Online speaks to the increasing number of women who are challenging social norms by riding motorcycles and scooters
Ingy Deif, Sunday 27...
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I'll have a look see and see if I can find a copy of Khul Khaal . Thanks for the suggestion. Am sure I'd enjoy it.
Planning to take a Riverboat trip on the Nile from Luxor to Cairo soon. Has anyone made such a journey recently? Any details would be gratefully received.
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My friend is the manager for a German travel firm here, only yesterday she told my she had guests doing this very cruse, fourteen days in total. It has never stopped since it first started....
I have seen quite a few of these grasshoppers (if that's what they are) in what looks like a stunned state, not sure if the flying insect (don't have a name for it) stunned the grasshopper first or...
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There are parasites that infect many species. The worst ones are the ones you cant see... :cg
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Hmmm...I can think of a few that can be seen. The only problem is you don't know they are...
Tourists visiting Egypt in June declined 20.5 percent compared to the same period the year prior, according to the latest report by the Ministry of Tourism.
A total of 785,652 foreign tourists spent...
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I've been travelling to the Caribbean & Mexico for the past few years and they have no problem at all putting out offers to get people there AND while the actual tourist count is down it is nothing...
I haven't been on here in ages. After Sara died, it has taken me a long time to get back into things. I have finished my novel and I have a question about Egypt courts and how they...
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It dose pay to read a post first, not use it as yet another excuse to once again bombard us...:urm:
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I have a question....How does the legal system work in this case ?
Egypt's Minister of Social Solidarity said Tuesday that the starting age of smokers has dropped down to 10 years old, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.
Ghada Wali said during the...
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What always continually amazes me is how a people living on wages that amount to a pittance can afford to smoke.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi donated LE500,000 on Monday to a bank account he recently opened to field donations to improve the country's ailing economy, a statement from the presidency...
Cigarettes will now cost around LE2 more per pack, while taxes on beer and wine are set to go up by 200 and 150 percent, respectively.
Local and imported cigarettes and alcohol will cost more as of...
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This President to me seems to know exactly what is required, he realises that he will not get money in from the coffers via income tax because half the population I would think are not even...
It hasn't taken long for people to jump on the fuel price hike to make a bit extra . Here in Hurghada bus prices went up 50% yesterday....notwithstanding that fuel represents a much smaller...
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I don't know about Egypt, but in the UK, you are supposed to suspend the price increase until you have exhausted current pre tax increase stock , as CE pointed out, it does not stop some from...
Egypt's government to raise electricity and petrol prices next month.
Egypt's government is planning to raise the prices of electricity and all state-subsidised fuels with the start of the 2014-2015...
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So Petrol/Diesel prices went up yesterday, after an hour lecture by my taxi driver and how much they had gone up by, I :up put to him the following questions
Egypt are to apply Capital Gains Tax from this coming Monday, the amount has not yet been advertised.
Seems like they are really looking to Western World Ways of raising funds, in a way that...
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Update on petrol.
92 Octane which was 185LE per litre is now 260LE. At my local garage it will take a little while to amend the pump gauges and a queue of cars is building up while we await the man...
Going to Hurghada (see Bombay I have learnt how to spell it) on the bus I have booked the hotel it's in Makadi Bay, now looking at the map that is miles from the bus station. Has anyone any idea how...
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Thank you all for your help. Unfortunately I have had a phone call this morning to say that the buses are not running tomorrow because of Ramadan so I have booked a taxi from Luxor to take me. I have...
Harassment of women may be getting more violent, but activists are fighting back.
It is a sordid tale: A 16-year-old girl is groped while walking along the street. She responds by spitting in her...
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As an add on, how far do you think you have to wade through back posts to find one that does not attempt the reenactment of the crucifixion towards one of CE's posts?
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