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Mohamed ElBaradei is the interim PM of Egypt

Former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei who is also the liberal opposition leader in Egypt has been named as Egypt’s new Prime Minister...

July 10, 2013

Military coup in Egypt removes Morsy

The recently elected Islamist President of Egypt Mohamed Morsy has been removed from power in a military coup staged under the leadership of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, head of Egypt’s...

July 7, 2013

Chief Justice Adly Mansour declared interim President of Egypt

The Chief Justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour has taken over as the interim President of the nation’s hours after the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed...

July 7, 2013

Prism scandal: India among top 5 most monitored nations

As per reports in the UK newspaper, The Guardian, India is among the top 5 countries most extensively monitored by the NationalSecurity Agency (NSA), a US government agency tasked with foreign...

June 16, 2013

Egypt highest court declares Shura Council illegal

In a major blow to Islamists in Egypt, country’s highest court declared the nation’s Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel illegal questioning the legal basis of the Islamists’ hold...

June 4, 2013

Tension escalate b/w Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile water diversion

Dispute b/w Egypt and Ethiopia has resurfaced over the diversion of a major Nile tributary even as Ethiopia continues construction of Africa’s biggest dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,...

June 4, 2013

Seven pacts signed b/w India and Egypt

India and Egypt agreed to intensify defense relationship. Both the nations have inked seven agreements most of them aimed at building framework for a robust relationship in future....

March 28, 2013

Morsy proposes ‘E-BRICS’

Egypt’s first elected President Mohamed Morsy who is on visit to India have expressed keenness to join the BRICS and hoped to see itself in the E-BRICS (E...

March 26, 2013

Iranian President Ahmadinejad becomes first Iranian leader to visit Egypt since Islamic Revolution of 1979

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the first Iranian leader to visit Egypt after Tehran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. He visited Egypt capital Cairo for attending the summit of the...

February 9, 2013

Egypt gets new constitution

Egypt President Mohammed Morsi signed the controversial new constitution drafted by allies of Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist after it got approval from the countrywide referendum. With the approval...

December 29, 2012

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