(Others) – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has retracted his Sunday decisions to increase tax burdens on the Egyptian people, and ordered the government to carry out a “social dialogue” on the measures before implementation.
In a statement issued on his official Facebook page at around 2 am on Monday, Morsi said he had put on hold the measures of raising sales taxes on a wide range of cons
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Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi opened a factory to produce styrene and polystyrene in Alexandria’s Dekheila Port at a total investment cost of $408 million. The factory, built with a 100% Egyptian capital, is expected to produce 200,000 tons annually and is part of national petrochemical projects. The project’s funding was the fruit of cooperation between the petroleum sector, Finance
A newcomer to international affairs, Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, has so far shown skill in moving Egypt back towards the centre of regional diplomacy and setting out his own foreign policy, without upsetting the Americans or Gulf states.
Tags: international affairs, regional diplomacy, Mohamed MorsiBeirut – Syrian opposition activists and rebels celebrated the electoral victory of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi as another triumph over dictatorial rule but said they were not expecting help from the Islamist leader for their own 16-month-old revolt.
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The Salafi group Jama'a al-Islamiya announced its support of Mohamed Morsi Friday evening, after preliminary results showed that the candidate they previously endorsed, Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh, is likely out of the race after coming in fourth.
Unofficial results on Friday showed that former Aviation and Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq and Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsy will be facing off in the 16 and 17 June run-off.
In a statement, the group said that Shafiq is a counter-revolutionary candidate, and the group will take whatever measures possible to prevent an anti-revolutionary figure from reaching the presidency.
The group said schemes by the dissolved National Democratic Party, including vote purchasing and media campaigns, are behind Shafiq’s second place victory.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
Tags: Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsy, Mohamed Morsi, Ahmed Shafiq, National Democratic Party 
Egypt’s political powers, presidential hopefuls and religious figures expressed sorrow and offered condolences over the death of the 89-year-old Pope Shenouda III on Saturday.
Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb in a lengthy statement expressed his sympathy with the Christian community over the death of Pope Shenouda, saying that he was a respected national figure. Al-Tayeb said that Al-Azhar “greatly remembers his vision towards Jerusalem and its history.”
The Freedom and Justice Party also issued a statement signed by Mohamed Morsi, the chairman of the party, in which the party commemorated Pope Shenouda, whose life, the statement said, was “a long journey of big contribution in various fields domestically and abroad.”
Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri said in a statement “I give my sincere condolences to the Coptic brothers home and abroad.” He said that Pope Shenouda was a “national character and a symbol for patriotism and he gained wide respect and appreciation from the Egyptian people.”
Former Prime Minister Essam Sharaf remembered Shenouda as a “devout clergyman, a good citizen and a valuable leader."
"His memory will remain in our hearts. His vision was always that Egypt is not the country that we live in; but the country that lives in us,” Sharaf said.
Presidential Hopeful Ahmed Shafiq also issued a statement, saying that Egypt has lost a “unique religious leader and a distinguished character in the national history.” He added that he trusts that the “Coptic church will pass this hard moment because of the great legacy of Pope Shenouda.”
Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa called Pope Shenouda “a great man who was working for the interests of the country. He was working for Egypt to stand as a unified front against the challenges facing the nation.”
As for Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, presidential candidate, his campaign said that Fotouh had spoken with Bishop Moussa, the Orthodox Church's bishop of the youth. In his call, his campagin said, he expressed his sincere condolences to the Coptic Church and Copts in Egypt and abroad.
As of late Saturday, no statement had been issued from any figures belonging to the hardline Islamist Salafi movement or from the Salafi Nour Party.
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