Égypte-actualités

Le président égyptien, Mohamed Morsi, a prévenu, le 15 juin au soir, qu'il agirait "avec détermination" pour préserver la « stabilité » du pays. Allusion faite aux mouvements de jeunes et d'opposants qui ont appelé à manifester à la fin du mois pour une présidentielle anticipée.

Devant des milliers d'islamistes rassemblés dans un stade du Caire, Mohamed Morsi a affirmé qu'il agirait "avec détermination" face à "ceux qui pensent qu'ils peuvent détruire la stabilité", les qualifiant de "partisans et de vestiges de l'ancien régime".

"Ils essayent de pousser le pays dans une spirale de violences et de chaos", a encore accusé le président égyptien issu des Frères musulmans. Et d'ajouter : "Ceux-là n'ont absolument pas leur place parmi nous".

Mohamed Morsi a toutefois tenu à préciser qu'il ne s'adressait pas aux "enfants de la révolution du 25 janvier" qui ont renversé le président Hosni Moubarak, ni "ceux qui s'opposent et veulent faire entendre leur voix", mais "ceux qui tentent en vain de nous faire reculer, ceux qui veulent utiliser la violence par tous les moyens".

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Vidéo publiée le 3 avril 2013

On the House floor on Friday, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert accused various federal agencies of aiding Islamic terrorists organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America in their attempts to enact Sharia Law.

"We need to address the political correctness that is blinding our agencies and blinding our military of its ability to see who the enemy is, because it's getting people killed," Gohmert said. "When you refuse to acknowledge that the Afghans you're training, may be willing to turn their guns you're training them on and kill you...until you recognize that and who our enemy is, and that our enemy can be among us, and that our enemy can be in uniforms that we're supposed to be friendly with, then more Americans are going to be killed needlessly."

In the agency's annual bulletin on employment-related statistics, average weekly wages for these sectors increased by 28.6% in comparison with 2011, reaching 845 Egyptian pounds ($121).

The report also revealed that the financial and insurance sectors boasted the highest weekly wages of 2,025 Egyptian pounds ($289), while the average weekly wage for transport and storage was estimated at 920 Egyptian pounds ($132), and jobs related to electricity, natural gas, steam supplies and air conditioning came in at 838 pounds ($120).

"The increase in income is noteworthy in light of the economic conditions Egypt has been going through, which indicates domestic sectors are healthy, sustainable and keeping up with the relative hike in annual price rates," said Misbah Khair al-Din from the agency's studies department.

Al-Shorfa

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By Ola Noureldin / Daily news Egypt

The New Cairo Court rejected on Saturday the appeal submitted by Salafi preacher and TV anchor Abdallah Badr.

The court upheld his imprisonment, sentencing him to one year in prison and fining him EGP 20,000 for libel against actress Elham Shahin.

Mamdouh Ismail, Abdallah Badr‘s lawyer said: “I reject the verdict and we intend to appeal again.”

Badr first attempted to appeal the verdict in December, but his initial appeal was rejected in April.

Shahin filed a lawsuit against him for defamation and for insulting her on his television show broadcast on Al-Hafez satellite channel.

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/06/15/court-upholds-defamation-charges-against-salafi-preacher/

Monica Hanna's reputation as an archaeologist has grown far beyond her native Egypt — but not without risk.

As she and several journalists documented looting at an ancient burial site here, several men – one with a shotgun slung over a shoulder — threatened her.

“I heard one man say, ‘Beat her and take her camera,' ” Hanna said afterward.

When the men phoned for police, she hid her camera's memory card in her shirt. After 45 minutes of argument, she was allowed to leave.

“The locals, who are a part of the looting, don't want the photos out there because then their business stops,” she explained.

Hanna, 30, is a leader in exposing the antiquity-looting that has exploded since Egypt's 2011 revolution. She appears on Egyptian television debating government officials, takes reporters to looted sites, and encourages Egyptians to protect their heritage.

Read more:http://triblive.com/news/editorspicks/4198483-74/hanna-heritage-archaeological#axzz2WMGc0spl

A wispy-haired mummy's head, bleached skulls, and arm and leg bones are piled outside looted tombs.

A mummified hand with leathery-skinned fingers pokes from the sand.

Ancient burial wrappings from mummified bodies — torn apart to find priceless jewelry — unravel across the desert like brown ribbon, or tangle near broken bits of wooden coffins still brightly painted after nearly 3,000 years underground.

With bones scattered everywhere, this 500-acre plot looks like the aftermath of a massacre rather than an ancient burial ground.

“You see dogs playing with human bones, children scavenging for pottery,” says Egyptian archaeologist Monica Hanna, stepping cautiously around grisly remains and deep pits dug into tombs by looters.

Salima Ikram, an expert in tombs and mummification who heads the Egyptology unit at American University in Cairo, gasps in horror in her home while examining Tribune-Review photographs of the site.

“These scattered remains … brutally pulled apart in search of one shiny piece of metal,” Ikram says in disgust.

“This is most horrific — someone's ribs!” she suddenly exclaims. “Oh, God! It's like the killing fields!”

Read more: http://triblive.com/usworld/world/4198276-74/bones-tomb-egypt?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+alltribstories+%28TribLIVE+News%29#axzz2WM6naNWp

En 2011, le « printemps arabe » apporte un espoir immense aux Égyptiens, toutes religions confondues.

Egypt's opposition Tamarod campaign has backed Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) President Manar el-Beheiry to replace President Mohamed Morsy, a founding member told London's pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat Saturday.

Discussing the campaign's decision, member Mohamed Abdel Aziz said if Morsy was ousted during 30 June protests the SCC president "would take power as part of a government of technocrats and a national defence council with 65-percent military members."

“Islamists look to intimidate people to prevent them from taking to the streets” on 30 June, Abdel Aziz claimed, stressing that anti-government protesters would maintain peaceful demonstrations on the day.

Activists will meanwhile form committees to ensure protesters are kept safe, he added.

Black Bloc activist groups, according to Abdel Aziz, had already agreed to not use Molotov cocktails at protests in order to keep protests peaceful.

“We are working on the final arrangements with revolutionary forces for the day,” Abdel Aziz revealed, claiming that millions of Egyptians will take to the streets nationwide to express anger and disappointment at President Morsy's leadership.

The president had failed to fulfil the revolution's founding demands, he added.

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/tamarod-backs-scc-president-replace-morsy