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Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five others, the interior ministry said early on Tuesday.
“Armed elements riding in two vehicles approached a moving security convoy” around 11:45 pm Monday, the ministry said in a statement.
The convoy was crossing a roundabout that intersects with the main ring road that surrounds the capital, separating New Cairo and newer real estate projects from the city.
Police returned fire at the attackers’ vehicles, which police were pursuing “in an effort to apprehend the perpetrators,” the ministry said.
While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Egypt has been fighting an insurgency by a local affiliate of the Islamic State group in North Sinai province.
Hundreds of soldiers and policemen have been killed in the insurgency since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Following deadly church bombings last month, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency on April 10.
ISIS said it was behind the church bombings in Tanta and Alexandria on April 9 that killed 45 people.
The military has killed several of the group’s top leaders, but the extremists have increasingly expanded their attacks from Sinai to other parts of Egypt, including Cairo.
エマン・アフメド・アブド・エル・アティ（Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty）さんは今年2月、インド・ムンバイ（Mumbai）の病院に入院した際、体重が約500キロあった。だが、液体栄養剤のみの特別食で過ごし、一定の減量を達成した後、腹腔鏡下スリーブ状胃切除術を受けて、323キロという驚異的な減量に成功。現在の体重は176.6キロになったという。
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ロスタム氏の挑戦は、2012年、アフリカ最高峰とされるタンザニアのキリマンジャロ山（標高5,895m〕登頂から始まった。そして2013年、ケニア山（標高5,199m、ケニア最高峰であり、アフリカ大陸でタンザニアのキリマンジャロにつぎ、第2位〕に登り、2015年にはロシアのエルブルス山（標高5,642mで、ヨーロッパの最高峰であるほか、ロシア連邦自体の最高峰でもある〕を登った。その後、2016年にはインドのヒマラヤ山脈の麓まで登った。また同年、エジプト人女性として初めて、万里の長城マラソン（The Great Wall Marathon）（中国で開催される。万里の長城の階段5,164段がコースに含まれており、世界で過酷なマラソンの一つといわれる〕に参加した。彼女はこれらの旅に備え、エジプトのセント・カトリーナ山に登っていた。
ロスタム氏は最近、ある世界的なスポーツ会社が製品化した初のスポーツ用のかぶりもの〔NIKEが発表した、ムスリム女性がスポーツをする際に着用するためのNike Pro Hijabのこと〕の広告塔になることを選択した。しかし、彼女はまだ、エベレストまでの行程に要する高額な費用を確保していない。その費用は、10万ドルに達するかもしれない。
Egypt has blocked 21 websites, including Qatari-based news network Al-Jazeera, for content it said shows support for “terrorism, extremism,” state news agecny MENA reported late Wednesday.
In statements to the agency, a senior security source said the websites were blocked for their intention to spread lies.
The source only named seven of the 21 websites, including Al-Jazeera, Al-Sharq TV Channel Website, Misr El-Arabia, El-Shaab, Arabi 21, Rasd, and Hamas Online, adding that legal action would be taken against these sites.
Cairo accused several of the websites, including Al-Jazeera, of having ties with the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group, and linked others to being funded by Qatar.
Egypt has long accused Al-Jazeera of carrying out a hostile media campaign against the country since relations between Cairo and Doha soured following the ousting in 2013 of Egypt’s Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a key ally of the Gulf country.
Other websites that have banned in Egypt include independent news site Mada Masr, which was launched in 2013 by a group of journalists formerly of Al Masry Al Youm’s Egypt Independent, as well as Huffington Post Arabic.
The websites, however, were not explicitly named by the authorities.
Wednesday’s move comes one day after authorities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) blocked the main website of Qatar's al Jazeera TV, which Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.
From November, foreign visitors to Egypt can buy a ‘Cairo Pass’ which will allow them unlimited entry to archaeological sites and Islamic museums in Greater Cairo over a five-day period, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said earlier this week.
The ‘Cairo Pass’ is $100 for foreign visitors and $50 for students; this can be paid in other foreign currencies, such as the British pound or Euro. Tourists need to provide an ID photo and a photocopy of their passport. Students must provide their university ID.
The permits can be obtained from the headquarters of the Department of Cultural Relations at the Ministry of Antiquities in Zamalek, the Salah el-Din Citadel of Cairo, the Egyptian Museum or the Giza Pyramids.
“Foreign tourism companies requested this permit to be implemented in Cairo and Giza after its success in Luxor last year,” an official at the Ministry of Antiquities told Al-Borsa newspaper.
The goal of the ‘Cairo Pass’ is to improve the Ministry’s financial resources and increase foreign currency inflows into the country, the official added.
According to the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the total price of all tickets for foreign visitors at every archaeological site in Cairo and Giza—at LE8 to the dollar—is $147 (LE2,630) and $73 (LE1,315) for students. Therefore, tourists will save money by buying this pass.
Egypt’s tourism industry, a crucial source of hard currency, has suffered in the years of turmoil that followed the mass protests, as well as from the suspected bombing of a Russian plane in Sinai in 2015, which killed all 224 people on board.
Leading member of Hasm militant group killed in shootout with Egyptian police: Ministry h
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Egypt’s Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday that police killed a leading member of the militant group Hasm during a shootout in Fayoum governorate.
The ministry said that the National Security Agency received information that a meeting of the group’s members was set to be held in Fayoum’s Snores village to plan terrorist attacks.
The slain leader was responsible for recruiting young members and sending them to training camps affiliated with the group, the ministry added.
Hasm has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks against Egyptian security personnel in recent months, mostly targeting police checkpoints.
Egyptian security forces have arrested and killed dozens of suspected Hasm members in the past few months.
On Sunday, security forces in Giza said that two members of Hasm were killed in a shootout in 6 October City, a suburb of Greater Cairo.
According to interior ministry officials, the group is linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood organisation.
Ayat Al Tawy , Wednesday 12 Jul 2017
New "high-quality" buses similar to those seen on the streets of Europe have been put into service in Cairo in a bid to offer a possible alternative for private car owners to help ease increasing congestion in the traffic-choked capital, a transport official said.
Ten air-conditioned mini buses were put into service last week and 30 more will be operational on 1 August, the head of Egypt's General Transport Authority Rizk Ali told Ahram Online on Wednesday.
The 40 vehicles, which are part of private and state projects to provide hundreds of these buses in the next few years, will run across four lines serving areas including Shubra, Cairo International Airport, downtown's Ramses, Heliopolis and Obour City.
Egypt’s public buses are notorious for being poorly maintained and overcrowded, and are rarely used by well-off Egyptians. This has resulted in an increasing number of private cars on the streets, which causes congestion throughout the day in a capital of some 22.8 million people.
There are 2.3 million licensed private cars in Cairo, according to data released last month by state-run statistics body CAPMAS.
The new buses are fitted with a number of high-tech features including free Wi-Fi, USB sockets for passengers to charge their phones, CCTV cameras and digital displays showing upcoming stops, and entertainment screens.
More importantly, the buses will offer the use of pre-paid smart cards.
Tickets for the new 26-seater buses cost EGP 5, as opposed to the EGP 1 and EGP 2 tickets for regular public buses.
The Transport Authority will merely oversee operation of the vehicles, which are owned by the Egyptian Advanced Company for Public Transportation; 70 percent of which is owned by Emirates National Group.
The new buses are part of the company's EGP 1 billion plan to bring a total of 180 buses and mini buses into operation along 18 lines across Cairo in its first phase, the company said in a statement reported by local media on Wednesday.
The vehicles will be put into service gradually till June 2018, but Ali believes the plan could take longer, given a delay in running the first batch of 10 buses.
"We will supervise everything about the service, the Wi-Fi connection, the air-conditioning, etc. It would not be acceptable for passengers to pay EGP 5 and after one month find all these functions out of service," Ali told Ahram Online.
The authority plans to impose a strict system of regular maintenance on the vehicles, where a bus with a non-functioning feature will be suspended, Ali added.
In addition to the 180 privately owned buses, Ali said the authority plans to bring into operation over 160 more European-style buses with the same features.
These include 13 double-deckers that will go into operation in Cairo before the end of the year and 150 mini buses to be brought into service gradually over the first half of 2018.
The authority is also considering financial offers for its plan to run 300 natural gas vehicles in the capital.
"We aim to offer services that will eventually reduce energy consumption, air pollution, congestion and the impact on global warming."
Last month, the government hiked fuel prices by up to 50 percent, a sharp rise and further obstacle for many Egyptians struggling with soaring living costs.
One citizen was killed and 19 injured on Sunday in clashes between security forces and residents of Al-Warraq Island in Greater Cairo, according to health ministry figures reported by state-run MENA agency.
Thirty-one police personnel were also injured in the events according to an interior ministry statement, which described their actions on the island in Giza governorate as part of a campaign to remove illegal structures and encroachments on state property on the banks of the Nile.
The interior ministry said some of the residents gathered and attacked the police with stones and birdshot rounds, prompting forces to use tear gas to disperse them.
“Clashes with those gathered resulted in the injury of eight officers, 11 police personnel, and 12 conscripts with wounds resulting from birdshot rounds,” the statement said, adding that the police were able to control the situation.
The health ministry said the injuries of the 19 civilians involved include cases of asphyxiation and birdshot wounds. They are all in a stable condition.
Police arrested 10 people, who are currently being questioned for attacking the security forces, MENA quoted a second statement by the interior ministry as saying.
Reports of clashes emerged earlier on Sunday after both military and police forces cordoned off the bridges leading to the island on both sides.
According to media reports, some residents believe the campaign to demolish illegal buildings on the banks of the Nile is part of a plan to clear the whole island.
In a statement issued on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said that it was necessary for the state to reclaim its land, and that the campaign aimed at “restoring the people’s rights.”
Ismail also said that over 700 judicial decrees have been issued ordering illegal properties on Greater Cairo’s Warraq Island be removed, and that property owners can still legalise their illegally-build properties. He also said that no agricultural land will be evacuated or destroyed.
Giza Governor Mohamed El-Dali affirmed in statements to MENA news agency that the security campaign had targeted illegal constructions and violations on the island’s Nile banks.
“Although the campaign did not target any agricultural lands or inhabited buildings, residents began an assault on security forces, and so the governorate has decided to postpone its campaign”, the official announced.
Similar clashes between security forces and residents of the island took place last year when Egyptian authorities evacuated buildings on the island to construct the Rod Al-Farag axis road, either compensating residents by transferring them to different housing units or with financial compensation.
A nationwide campaign on Nile-side encroachments was launched in 2014.
Earlier this year the irrigation and water resources ministry announced that a total of 26,322 violations along the river’s banks had been removed.
The Egyptian parliament is set to vote on a draft law that would re-classify building encroachments on the Nile as a felony, and would mandate prison sentences for offenders.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that projected time frame for establishing the electric train between Salam City and the New Administrative Capital should be reduced to be completed within two years only.
He said that the project will provide a safe and modern means of transportation for commuters between Greater Cairo, and the New Administrative Capital, as well as facilitate the transport of goods and production materials to and from the cities and industrial areas located along the railway line.
Sisi said that the contract with the company establishing the project should be on the best terms that include regular maintenance of trains and training for project personnel, to ensure maintenance the level of service it would provide.
Sisi’s remarks came during a meeting with representatives of the Chinese companies’ alliance, which will establish the electric train project. Transport Minister Hisham Arafat was in attendance at the meeting.
The spokesman for the presidency, Alaa Yousuf, said that the meeting discussed the latest developments in the train contract negotiations, which comes within the framework of the plan implemented by Transport Ministry to develop the railway network across Egypt and improve the services it provides.
Yousuf added that the representatives of the Chinese companies alliance reviewed, during the meeting, the various stages of the project, which is expected to extend about 66 kilometers and includes 11 stops.
Chinese companies’ officials stressed their keenness for Egyptian construction companies to work with them in the civil work and installation of rails, which will provide thousands of jobs.
The Transport Minister explained that the project will contribute to enhancing the efforts of urban development along the course of the train, as well as the reduction of traffic congestion in addition to energy conservation and eco-friendliness.
Arafat pointed out that the electric train will connect with the third line of the subway in Salam City, linking the cities of Greater Cairo, Obour, Shorouk, Badr, and the New Administrative Capital through the 10th of Ramadan City.
Former Transport Minister, Hani Dahy, said in a 2015 statement that the project will be funded by the Chinese government and the Export-Import Bank of China.
