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By Mada Masr – Italy gave the go-ahead for the sale of two Fremm frigates to Egypt for an estimated value of 1.2 billion euros on Monday, according to Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. [...]

By Declan Walsh and Elisabetta Povoledo – The New York Times CAIRO — When an Egyptian student was arrested at the Cairo Airport recently, it was hardly an unusual event. Egypt’s security [...]

By Ruth Michaelson in Cairo and Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo – The Guardian – An Egyptian researcher who is studying in Italy has been arrested on arrival in Cairo on charges of “harming [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Despite Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s many pluralistic words and gestures, which have won him much praise from the nation’s Christians and moderates, he [...]

By BBC News – An Egyptian policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for shooting dead a Cairo rickshaw driver during an argument over a fare. Police Sergeant Mostafa Abdel Haseeb shot [...]

By Julian Miglierini – BBC News – The family of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni are waiting for Egyptian police and prosecutors to travel to Rome, in what they hope will mark a [...]