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I received the following message from Cairo…
اليوم لقي عامل بشركة مطاحن جنوب القاهرة فرع السيدة زينب مصرعه تحت عجلات ونش بالشركة اثناء تأدية عملة و الادارة تمتنع عن اعتبارها موت اثناء العمل
“Today, a worker at the South Cairo Grain Mills, Sayyed Zeinab Branch, died under the wheels of a forklifter inside the company, during [...]

From Reporters Without Borders…
One month after asking Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak to investigate the circumstances in which Israeli soldiers fired on Palestinian cameraman Imad Ghanem on 5 July in the Gaza Strip, Reporters Without Borders today called for the results of the investigation to be published. Ghanem, who lost both legs as a [...]

From Electronic Intifada…
On a Saturday morning in mid May 2006, Hamdi Aman, aged 30 from Gaza, had his world turned upside down. Four members of his family died in an Israeli air strike aimed at an Islamic Jihad activist in Gaza.
He is concerned that his daughter, Maria, set to celebrate her sixth birthday next [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Up to eight million Iraqis require immediate emergency aid, with nearly half of the population living in “absolute poverty”, according to a report by Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi groups.
About four million people are lacking food and “in dire need of different types of humanitarian assistance”, said the report, released in Amman [...]

Egyptian blogger al-Qassam took part in the solidarity trip organized by bloggers and journalists to Rafah last weekend…

You can find his report with more videos here…

Via Common Dreams…
“Our course in Iraq has lost contact with our vital national security interests in the Middle East and beyond. … The vitality of the U.S. economy and the economies of much of the world depend on the oil that comes from the Persian Gulf.”
With these statements, Republican Sen. Richard G. Lugar of [...]

Via al-Zaher…

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From the Daily Star Egypt…
Although scheduled to be issued yesterday, the administrative court has postponed the final decision on Ayman Nour’s early release until July 31, due to his critical health condition.
Nour’s wife Gamila Ismail told The Daily Star Egypt that postponing the final hearing another three weeks is even better than a quicker [...]

A blog has been launched by the activists involved in the campaign against the privatization of the State Social Insurance system. Click on the banner below to check it out…

An Al-Ahram Weekly article by journalist and friend Serene Assir…
Approximately 5,000 Palestinians have been stranded in Rafah and Arish owing to a sudden border closure imposed, ever since Hamas’s seizure of power in Gaza 9 June. Banned by Egyptian security forces from approaching the Rafah border crossing — where Palestinians have usually congregated despite [...]