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Egypt’s Fuel Price Hike Deepens Economic Strain Amid IMF Reforms$

Egypt has raised domestic fuel prices sharply as part of a multi-faceted effort to stabilize the country's economy amidst persistent fiscal pressure and regional turbulence. Effective October 17, 2025, all grades of gasoline, diesel, and compressed natural gas used in...

Egypt: Challenged Energy Sector Faces Another Brutal SummerF

Egypt faces a deepening energy crisis as natural gas production crashes 39%, forcing a return to costly LNG imports and the unpopular decision to use polluting fuel oil. With multinationals like Chevron exiting failed exploration blocks and summer blackouts looming,...

Syria’s New Ruler Faces Jihadist Rebellion and Internal StrifeF

Ahmed Al-Charaa, once a top jihadist leader, now rules Syria after toppling Bashar al-Assad. But his grip on power is fragile. While rebranding himself as a moderate, he faces opposition from the Islamic State, which sees him as an apostate, and from former allies who...

Under pressure, Egypt releases from prison six activistsF

By Mona Salem Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolution, just days after Washington warned Cairo over a crackdown on rights activists. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014, the...

Egyptian law to punish state employees who show dissenting viewsF

Egypt's parliament Monday authorised the dismissal of public workers listed as government opponents and "terrorists", after a string of deadly rail accidents blamed on the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, lawmakers said. The legislation stipulates that all public...

Egypt: The bizarre sentencing in Egypt of TikTok influencersF

An Egyptian court has sentenced two women TikTok influencers to six and 10 years in jail respectively for "human trafficking", a lawyer representing one of them told AFP on Monday. The ruling against Haneen Hossam and Mowada al-Adham was handed down late Sunday by the...

Egypt: Nine people executed over 2013 raid on police stationF

Egyptian authorities executed nine people Monday over the storming of a police station in 2013 in which 13 policemen were killed, a security source said. The executions took place "this morning", the source told AFP. Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt,...

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