From the IMEMC…
Senior Fatah leader, Hani Al-Hassan, one of the founders of the movement and member of the central committee of Fatah was harshly slammed by other Fatah officials and leaders following an interview he gave to Al-Jazeera satellite channel during which he accused a group of Fatah leaders of being part of a [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
South African public sector unions have called off a four-week strike after agreeing a 7.5 per cent general pay rise with the government.
About 600,000 teachers, nurses and other civil servants had halted work on June 1 to push for a 12 per cent pay hike in one of the largest industrial actions since [...]

From AP…
President Bush held up Israel as a model for defining success in Iraq, saying Thursday that the goal of the U.S. mission there is not eliminating attacks but enabling a democracy that can function despite continuing violence.
With his Iraq policies under increasing fire from the American public and lawmakers from both parties, Bush [...]

From the BBC…
Egypt has announced that it is imposing a complete ban on female circumcision, also known as genital mutilation.
The announcement follows a public outcry after a young girl died during the operation.
A ban was introduced nearly 10 years ago but the practice continued to be allowed in exceptional circumstances.
A health ministry spokesman said [...]

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1500 workers from Ta’awon Ghazl el-Mahalla, are threatening a strike if they don’t recceive the same bonuses as their colleagues did in the mother company Ghazl el-Mahalla.
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Al-Azhar teachers’ strike continues, as Central Security Forces troops deploy around Al-Azhar schools and polytechnics…
UPDATE: Here’s a report in English from the Daily Star Egypt… 

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… as some people are wondering after Ashraf Marwan, and Soua’ad Hosni… but they tend to forget too General El-Leithy Nassef, Sadat’s former head of the Republican Guards, who played a central role in the 15 May 1971 “Corrective Revolution” against Nasser’s old-guards…
And guess what…? General Nassef also jumped off from a London balcony… in [...]

I never liked this guy….
An Egyptian billionaire financier who feared for his life after being accused of being a Mossad spy was found dead outside his Mayfair flat yesterday in suspicious circumstances.
Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late President Gamel Abdel Nasser, was found beneath his fourth-floor flat in Carlton House Terrace.
Police were treating [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
At least 12 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes and artillery fire in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials have said.
Palestinian medics said the Israeli army’s incursion on Wednesday into Gaza City and the southern town of Khan Younis, the biggest raid on the territory since the Hamas takeover two weeks ago, [...]

From the BBC…
The Palestinian Hamas movement has criticised the appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as an international Middle East peace envoy.
The Islamist militants, now in control of Gaza, said Mr Blair had not been honest or helpful while prime minister.
But the move has been welcomed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Life resumed at the Mansoura-España Garments Company Wednesday, after the the workers received their work order from the management.
Following the end of their sit-in last Thursday, the workers showed up daily at the factory starting from Saturday, and used to stay from 7am to 3pm (the official working hours) but neither production orders nor raw [...]

Thousands of Al-Azhar school teachers are on strike in six provinces refusing to correct the exams for the High School Diploma and Preparatory School Dimploma, protesting the government’s decision to exclude them from an employment reform package decreed for teachers. The strike includes, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm, around 22,000 teachers.
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Blogger Tamer Mabrouk of Port Said continues his anti-corruption, anti-police brutality campaign…
Tamer has just posted an audio-recording of a phone conversation between Police Officer Ahmad Tawfeeq and a woman teacher he allegedly mistreated by the name Ibtessam as a favor for one of Mubarak’s NDP members Ali el-Alfi. In the conversation, Ibtessam accuses the officer [...]