[Ynet] A key Egyptian negotiator with the International Monetary Fund said on Sunday he has resigned as first deputy finance minister, in a potential blow to Cairo's prospects of an early IMF deal.
Hany Kadry Dimian has been the crucial point man in Egypt's protracted and so far fruitless negotiations to obtain a $4.8 billion loan needed to help combat a severe economic crisis.
It keeps getting worse...
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[Al Ahram] A misdemeanour court in Cairo ordered Monday the release pending trial of ten people who had been tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! at the festivities that erupted at Cairo's St. Mark's Coptic Cathedral on 7 April.
After the festivities, prosecutors announced that they had arrested a number of suspects, both Mohammedan and Christian, to investigate their possible involvement in the festivities.
Violence erupted at the church when unknown assailants attacked mourners as they exited the cathedral after a funeral for Copts killed in sectarian festivities in Qalioubiya, north of Cairo, a day before.
As the violence escalated, police fired teargas and birdshot directly into the cathedral compound. Two people died in the violence.
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Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, speaking at a Global Alcohol Policies Symposium on April 26, said beer was forced upon the masses as a means of modernization in the early years of the republic. Actually, the first beer factory in Turkey was state-owned and produced what was known as Tekel Birasi, (Monopoly Beer). But beer is not our drink he added. Indeed, our national drink is ayran (yogurt drink). This created uproar in social media, mostly among white Turks (traditional elite, well-educated and Kemalist upper class). Erdogan has mastered the game of touching the nerves of angry white Turks and alcohol presents a delightfully contested zone.
[Pak Daily Times] Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hassan has called for an all-parties conference (APC) on the unfolding uncertain situation ahead of the general election to make the election a possibility.
During his visit to Quetta on Monday, he met Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti at the Bugti House where both the leaders deliberated on seat adjustment.
"A committee has been formed, comprising the representatives of both the parties, to evaluate the possible seat adjustment between the JI and the JWP," he said. i.e., deciding who's going to win where.
He said that the postponement of election would bring very serious results, so the caretaker prime minister should hold an APC, ensuring the participation of the army and intelligence agencies, along with politicians, to make the general election a possibility.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Monday said that his party strongly believed in respecting each other, and had never resorted to character liquidation like others. Addressing a public rally in Okara, he said nobody could stop the PML-N from marching forward. "We will make Pakistain a citadel of peace and prosperity, if voted to power."
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h/t Instapundit
...This morning my friend lucked out and was able to buy several cases of ammo.
On the way home he stopped at the gas station where a drop-dead gorgeous blonde was filling up her car at the next pump.
She looked at the ammo in the back of his pickup truck and said in a very sexy voice, Im a big believer in barter. Would you be interested in trading sex for ammo?
He thought a few seconds and asked, What kinda ammo ya got?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Nawaz Sharif
