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 [...]