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Egypt's Suez Lime to set up new manufacturing plant

Suez Cement said that its venture, Suez Lime Company, plans to build a manufacturing plant aiming to produce 300 tons of lime daily when its first kiln opens in 2011, using lime in cement production, Reuters reported. Managing...

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Gordon Brown sounded cheerful this morning – a moment to be treasured | Michael White

The PM was rather good as he explained his Afghan strategy today – calm, lucid and far from tetchy Did you catch Gordon Brown on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning? Shame if you didn't. He was rather good, calm and...

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Remembering our heroes

BIRMINGHAM’s fallen soldiers and those serving in current conflicts were honoured in a moving Remembrance Day ceremony. People of all ages looked on to see Lord Mayor Coun Michael Wilkes and Birmingham Cathedral’s acting dean,...

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Chinese premier proposes five ways to expand Egypt ties

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a five-point proposal to further expand cooperation between China and Egypt during a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Nazef here on Saturday. Wen said practical cooperation between the...

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1956: The UN General Assembly passes a resolution calling on Britain, France and Israel to...

Eden was a British Conservative politician who served as foreign secretary in three different decades and became prime minister in 1955. His premiership was overshadowed by the Suez Crisis and he resigned after little more than...

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Robert Fisk's World: The German Lawrence of Arabia had much to live up to – and failed

His name was Captain Leo Frobenius and he was the German Lawrence of Arabia, tasked to start an Arab Muslim insurgency against British rule in Sudan and Egypt. Colonel Lawrence's mission, of course, was to persuade the Arabs of...

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Sir Donald Logan

Career civil servant who knew the secrets of the Suez crisis Sir Donald Logan, who has died aged 92, played a small but important part in the Suez affair of 1956, the most turbulent of Britain's 20th-century political crises...

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Egypt invites India to build industrial zone

Egypt: The Egyptian government has offered to let India build an industrial zone in the Suez development area for setting up joint ventures with Egyptian companies, India's Economic Times has reported. The Suez development...

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Egypt invites Indian cos to start JVs

CAIRO: Egypt has invited India to build an ‘India industrial zone’ in the Suez development area for setting up joint ventures with Egyptian companies. Egypt’s Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, at a meeting with commerce and industry...

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