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Ehab Salah spara e uccide la moglie

CAIRO – Il noto anchorman della tv di Stato egiziana Ehab Salah è stato arrestato per aver ucciso a colpi di pistola la moglie, la 35enne Magda Waheed. Il dramma si sarebbe consumato al termine di una lite. La notizia è riportata dal sito web del quotidiano [...]

Liver cancer risk greatest for men

CAIRO – Hanging around a hospital lobby has become a daily pastime for 50-year-old labourer Ahmed Ismail. Every morning for the past few weeks the liver cancer sufferer has been going to al-Demerdash Hospital in Cairo in the hope of having his malignant hepatic tumour surgically removed.

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Surviving on a crust in Cairo’s expanding slums

CAIRO – For seven-year-old Ahmed Yasser, it is normal to have just a crust of bread to munch on throughout the afternoon as he plays with other children in a narrow alley in the sprawling slum of Arab al-Maasarah, 20km south of Cairo.

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Shortfall in blood donations threatens patient health

CAIRO – Outside downtown Cairo’s teeming Ramses train station, the crowd studiously ignores the health official, despite his repeated pleas for travellers to spare a few minutes to donate blood in a nearby minivan.

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Time for action on - heart disease of the poor

CAIRO – Ayman Mahdi Saleh, 32, started to feel pain in his chest soon after he was diagnosed with Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD). “I started to experience eye blurring, chest pain and dizziness last year but the symptoms have started to become more serious now,” he told IRIN at the National Heart Institute (NHI) in Cairo where he was seeking treatment.

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Anti-trafficking law - not sufficient

CAIRO – In the dock stood her parents, a lawyer and a broker, a woman who earned a living marrying underage Egyptian girls to wealthy old men from the Gulf. They pleaded not guilty to trafficking charges at their first court hearing on 20 April.

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Pig-cull induced street rubbish a national scandal

CAIRO, 26 January 2010 (IRIN) – The Egyptian government’s decision to cull all of the country’s 300,000 pigs in May 2009 is increasingly being viewed by experts and officials as a gross mistake as piles of organic waste the pigs once ate accumulate in Cairo’s streets, posing serious health hazards.

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Displaced flood victims still waiting for aid

CAIRO, 25 January 2010 (IRIN) – Days after flash floods killed several people and forced hundreds of families out of their damaged homes in the Sinai Peninsula, government assistance is yet to arrive, survivors say.

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Signs of rising sectarian tension

CAIRO, 13 January 2010 (IRIN) – A 6 January drive-by shooting on a Coptic Christian congregation leaving midnight mass on their Christmas Eve in Nagaa Hammadi, southern Egypt, has focused attention on decades-old tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt.

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