city:alexandria

Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/world/siri-alexa-ai-gender-bias.html

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Why do most virtual assistants that are powered by artificial intelligence — like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa system — by default have female names, female voices and often a submissive or even flirtatious style?

The problem, according to a new report released this week by Unesco, stems from a lack of diversity within the industry that is reinforcing problematic gender stereotypes.

“Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”

One particularly worrying reflection of this is the “deflecting, lackluster or apologetic responses” that these assistants give to insults.

The report borrows its title — “I’d Blush if I Could” — from a standard response from Siri, the Apple voice assistant, when a user hurled a gendered expletive at it. When a user tells Alexa, “You’re hot,” her typical response has been a cheery, “That’s nice of you to say!”

Siri’s response was recently altered to a more flattened “I don’t know how to respond to that,” but the report suggests that the technology remains gender biased, arguing that the problem starts with engineering teams that are staffed overwhelmingly by men.

“Siri’s ‘female’ obsequiousness — and the servility expressed by so many other digital assistants projected as young women — provides a powerful illustration of gender biases coded into technology products,” the report found.

Amazon’s Alexa, named for the ancient library of Alexandria, is unmistakably female. Microsoft’s Cortana was named after an A.I. character in the Halo video game franchise that projects itself as a sensuous, unclothed woman. Apple’s Siri is a Norse name that means “beautiful woman who leads you to victory.” The Google Assistant system, also known as Google Home, has a gender-neutral name, but the default voice is female.

Baked into their humanized personalities, though, are generations of problematic perceptions of women. These assistants are putting a stamp on society as they become common in homes across the world, and can influence interactions with real women, the report warns. As the report puts it, “The more that culture teaches people to equate women with assistants, the more real women will be seen as assistants — and penalized for not being assistant-like.”

#Assistants_vocaux #Genre #Féminisme #IA #Ingtelligence_artificielle #Voix

Electronic exams fail again across Egypt on Sunday - Egypt Independent
▻https://www.egyptindependent.com/electronic-exams-fail-again-across-egypt-on-sunday

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On Sunday morning first secondary grade exams began electronically for about 600,000 students, and was plagued by a host of technical issues.

About 10,772 students in Damietta had problems with the exam on their tablets just minutes after the exam started.

The examinees resorted to a hardcopy starting 9:30 am, after the electronic exam system failed.

At 11 am the electronic systems were operational, however the Education Ministry decided to continue the examination on paper to avoid confusion.

The situation was the same in Alexandria, as students used a hardcopy for the exam after a failure in the electronic system that continued until 9:15 am.

In North Sinai schools, exams were conducted for 2,617 students in 29 schools affiliated to six educational departments.

The exam was carried out using paper in 26 schools, while students at three Arish schools underwent the exam electronically.

At south Marsa Alam, students conducted the examinations using paper following a power outage.

Nora Fadel, Director General of the Education Department in the Red Sea, said that all first secondary grade students at the Red Sea schools performed exams electronically, except for Abou Ghosoon School in Marsa Alam, which had only eight students.

The failure of electronic system in Beheira caused the Beheira Directorate of Education to revert to paper for the Arabic language exam, delaying exams and forcing students to leave schools to buy pens and other tools.

#Egypte terrain d’essai pour les big brothers de l’éducation en ligne ?

Chelsea Manning Released from Alexandria Detention Center After Grand Jury Lapses
▻https://www.sparrowmedia.net/2019/05/chelsea-manning-released-from-alexandria-detention-center

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Alexandria, VA — Earlier today Chelsea Manning was released from the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria, VA. Chelsea’s release follows the expiration of the term of the EDVA Grand Jury that previously demanded her testimony. Chelsea was in jail for 62 days, after she was found in contempt of court for her refusal to give testimony. The following is a statement from Chelsea’s legal team:

“Today marked the expiration of the term of the grand jury, and so, after 62 days of confinement, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria Detention Center earlier today.

“Unfortunately, even prior to her release, Chelsea was served with another subpoena. This means she is expected to appear before a different grand jury, on Thursday, May 16, 2019, just one week from her release today.

“It is therefore conceivable that she will once again be held in contempt of court, and be returned to the custody of the Alexandria Detention Center, possibly as soon as next Thursday, May 16.

“Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions, and will use every available legal defense to prove to District Judge Trenga that she has just cause for her refusal to give testimony.”

A more detailed statement from Chelsea is forthcoming.

‘Knock Down the House’ Review: #Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez Win in Context – Rolling Stone
▻https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/knock-down-house-documentary-review-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-829001

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You could argue that Knock Down the House is gilding the lily by giving so much of its running time to AOC, trading in her burgeoning popularity to win audiences for this Netflix doc. Fair enough. But the inherent and more crucial message in this probing #film is that many women would have to fail in order for one to succeed.

#femmes #politique

Reality Winner Has Been in Jail for a Year. Her Prosecution Is Unfair and Unprecedented.

▻https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort

THIS IS A tale of two defendants and two systems of justice.

Christmas was coming, and Paul Manafort wanted to spend the holiday with his extended family in the Hamptons, where he owns a four-acre estate that has 10 bedrooms, a pool, a tennis court, a basketball court, a putting green, and a guest cottage. But Manafort was under house arrest in northern Virginia. Suspected of colluding with the Russian government, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump had been indicted on a dozen charges involving conspiracy, money laundering, bank fraud, and lying to federal investigators.

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Paul Manafort’s Hamptons estate, left, and the jail in Lincolnton, right.

A lobbyist who became mysteriously wealthy over the years, Manafort avoided jail by posting $10 million in bond, though he was confined to his luxury condo in Alexandria, Virginia. That’s why, in mid-December, his lawyers asked the judge to make an exception. Manafort’s $2.7 million Virginia home could not provide “adequate accommodations” for his holiday guests, some of whom would have difficulty traveling because of health problems, the lawyers stated. A day later, the judge agreed to the request. Manafort could have his Christmas getaway in the Hamptons.

Hundreds of miles away, another defendant in an eerily related case was not so blessed. Reality Winner, an Air Force veteran and former contractor for the National Security Agency, was sitting in a small-town jail in Lincolnton, Georgia. Arrested a year ago today, on June 3, 2017, Winner was accused of leaking an NSA document that showed how Russians tried to hack American voting systems in 2016.

The bail system plays to the advantage of wealthy defendants like Paul Manafort and Harvey Weinstein (who paid his $1 million bond with a cashier’s check), because they can provide the government with fantastic sums; freedom is quite literally for sale, as in a story Anton Chekhov might have written about czarist Russia. The poor and the unlucky are stuck behind bars, punished before their guilt is determined. Defendants who are unable to pay bail have sometimes been held for years without a trial.

IMAGINE THAT YOU are facing trial but are forbidden from searching for evidence to prove you are innocent. It is a scenario from a totalitarian “Alice in Wonderland” – you may do anything you want to defend yourself except the one thing that might actually help.

That’s a rough approximation of the situation Winner’s lawyers have faced due to a strange twist in her case. She is accused of potentially causing “exceptionally grave damage” to national security by leaking a classified document that, the government claims, contains “national defense information.”

Winner’s lawyers have stated in public filings that they needed to search on the internet to determine whether information in the document was known to a large number of government officials or was in the public domain. This was crucial to their effort to prove that the document did not merit NDI status. But because the document is classified, and because researching its contents on the internet could disclose search queries to hackers who theoretically could compromise the lawyers’ computers or access their routers, they were prohibited from Googling key phrases, according to court filings. In essence, Winner’s lawyers were forbidden from finding out if the document was as sensitive as the government claimed.

Rain of terror: Egypt to crack down on ’fake’ weather reports | World news | The Guardian

Meteorological authority prepares draft law to ban unauthorised forecasts

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/30/egypt-crackdown-fake-weather-reports-meteorological-association

Donald Trump may routinely rail against the “fake news media”, but Egypt is going one better by cracking down on “fake” weather reports.

The head of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority has said it is the only government body authorised to make predictions about the country’s weather, and is preparing a draft law to ban unauthorised forecasts.

Ahmed Abdel-Al, the EMA chairman, said during a television interview that the bill seeks to punish anyone “talking about meteorology, or anyone using a weather forecasting device without our consent, or anyone who raises confusion about the weather”. The EMA is Egypt’s primary, if not sole, source of domestic information on the country’s weather patterns.

Egypt’s media is under increasing pressure, with frequent accusations of fake news levelled at reporters and outlets, even those reporting in favour of the state. But false reports about the weather are rare, except perhaps for the annual repetition of doctored photos showing snow covering the pyramids and sphinx of Giza.

Weather reports have occasionally become political, however, such as when Egypt’s interior ministry claimed in 2015 that flooding in the coastal city of Alexandria was caused not by infrastructural failings, but by members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood blocking drains with cement.

Egypt : All for the kids |
The story of a Filipina domestic worker in Cairo
MadaMasr
▻https://www.madamasr.com/en/2018/04/21/feature/society/all-for-the-kids

On a hot summer day in 2012, two smartly clad Filipina women arrived at the JW Marriott Hotel on Cairo’s ring road, toting handbags in the crooks of their arms as they had often observed their madams doing. They lingered in the lobby for hours over small cups of coffee as they waited for a phone call.

In one of the rooms upstairs was Coco, another Filipina woman, in Cairo for the first time. She was accompanying her madam from Alexandria and had prepared carefully for the occasion, bringing along a scarf to cover her hair so as to avoid being questioned by the hotel staff. She knew she would not be able to take any belongings with her when she left and so had resorted to layering multiple sets of underwear beneath her dress.

In the late afternoon, Coco’s madam was deeply absorbed in a televised game show she had been avidly following that summer. Taking this as her cue, Coco snuck into the bathroom. She pulled the flush hard and with its sound masking that of the room’s door, slipped out. The keycard she had taken, which she hoped would operate the lift, did not work. Coco saw a guard approaching and grew nervous. She turned to take the stairs and he caught up. The hotel guard questioned her in Arabic, a language Coco had yet to learn. Her heart thumping, she made a phone signal with her hands and feigned an air of calm while repeating the word raseed, so as to give the impression that she was simply heading out to buy cell phone credit. The guard conceded. Once in the lobby, Coco dialed the number she had memorized months ago. On the other end, Sandra, who was sipping cold coffee in anticipation of this call, instructed Coco to head to the taxi stand. Coco was frantic. What does a taxi in this city look like? she wondered. Still terrified of being caught in the act of escape, she scanned the windows for something resembling a white car with a yellow sign on top.

Art et Liberté: Egypt’s Surrealists | by Charles Shafaieh | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

▻http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/02/03/art-et-liberte-egypts-surrealists

In March 1938, the Egyptian poet and critic Georges Henein and a small group of friends disrupted a lecture in Cairo given by the Alexandria-born Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti, who was an outspoken supporter of Mussolini. Six months later, Henein, along with the Egyptian writer Anwar Kamel, the Italian anarchist painter Angelo de Riz, and thirty-four other artists, writers, journalists, and lawyers, signed the manifesto “Vive l’Art Dégénéré!” (“Long Live Degenerate Art!”) that would inaugurate Art et Liberté, a short-lived but influential artists’ collective based in Egypt that is the focus of an illuminating exhibition currently at the Tate Liverpool, in Britain, covering the years 1938–1948. Printed in Arabic and French, with a facsimile of Guernica on its reverse, the declaration was a direct challenge to the previous year’s Nazi-organized exhibition “Entartete ‘Kunst’” (“Degenerate ‘Art’”), which presented art by Chagall, Kandinsky and other modern artists, largely Jewish, that the Nazi Party deemed decadent, morally reprehensible or otherwise harmful to the German people.

Internationalist in orientation and opposed as much to fascist-endorsed art as to the Egyptian academy’s own nationalist-minded aesthetics that resurrected ancient symbols in the name of “Egyptianness,” the group declared that it was “mere idiocy and folly to reduce modern art… to a fanaticism for any particular religion, race, or nation.” Surrealism—in its rejection of tyranny in any form and by championing uninhibited freedom of expression—was a fitting counterpoint that the group believed could also be harnessed to bring about social change.

‘The Route is Shut’: Eritreans Trapped by Egypt’s Smuggling Crackdown

Since Egyptian authorities cracked down on people smuggling last year, the Eritrean population in Cairo has swelled. As the E.U. heaps praise on Egypt’s migration control measures, Eric Reidy examines their consequences for a vulnerable community.

In comparison, around 11,000 of the more than 180,000 people who made the journey to Italy last year set out from Egypt. Following a crackdown on clandestine migration by Egyptian authorities this year, that number has dropped to fewer than 1,000.

Last September, an estimated 300 people drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Alexandria, making it one of the biggest single tragedies in a year with a record-breaking 5,143 migrant and refugee deaths in the Mediterranean. The majority of the victims were Egyptians, and the incident galvanized support for a crackdown on people smuggling in Egypt.

▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/08/01/the-route-is-shut-eritreans-trapped-by-egypts-smuggling-crackdown

#réfugiés #asile #migrations #réfugiés_érythréens #Egypte #passeurs #smuggling #smugglers #mourir_en_mer #décès #naufrage #parcours_migratoires #itinéraires_migratoires #routes_migratoires #frontières #fermeture_Des_frontières #contrôles_migratoires #contrôles_frontaliers

The World according to Eratosthenes

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Description: A facsimile of the world map by Eratosthenes (around 220 BC). Eratosthenes is the ancient Greek mathematician and geographer attributed with devising the first system of Latitude and Longitude. He was also the first know person to calculate the circumference of the earth. This is a facsimile of the map he produced based on his calculations. The map shows the routes of exploration by Nearchus from the mouth of the Indus River (325 BC, after the expedition to India by Alexander the Great), and Pytheas (300 BC) to Britannia. Place names include Hellas (Greece), Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), Mare Caspium (Caspian Sea), Gades (Cadiz), Columnæ Herculis (Gibraltar), Taprobane (Sri Lanka), Iberes (Iberian peninsula), Ierne (Ireland), and Brettania (Britain), the rivers Ister (Danube), Oxus (Amu Darya), Ganges, and Nilus (Nile), and mountain systems. The map shows his birthplace in Libya (Cyrene), the Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Syene (Aswan) where Eratosthenes made his calculations of the earth’s circumference, and the latitudes and longitudes of several locations based on his measurements in stadia.

Place Names: A Complete Map of Globes and Multi-continent, Europa, -Libya, -Asia, -India, -Scythia, -Arabi
ISO Topic Categories: society
Keywords: The World according to Eratosthenes, physical, -historical, kEarlyMapsFacsimile, physical features, topographical, society, Unknown, 220 BC
Source: Ernest Rhys, Ed., A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia (New York, NY: E.P. Dutton & CO., 1912) 2
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman

#cartographie #cartographie_ancienne

An Attack on All of Us : How the Right Hopes to Use the Shooting in Alexandria
▻https://crimethinc.com/2017/06/15/an-attack-on-all-of-us-how-the-far-right-hopes-to-use-the-shooting-in-al

Those who wish to carry out acts of violence always seek to frame themselves as victims. James Hodgkinson’s attack on Republican representatives in Alexandria is a godsend for the far right. Source: CrimethInc

Egypt-Saudi Arabia Handshake between king and president points to waning tensions | MadaMasr

▻http://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/04/13/feature/politics/handshake-between-king-and-president-points-to-waning-tensions

Some signals suggest a possible de-escalation between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, whose usually tight relations have recently witnessed turbulence.

The Jordan Arab Summit, held on March 29, saw the leaders of both countries, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and King Salman bin Abdulaziz, meet and shake hands, while their respective ministers of foreign affairs agreed to set up a “committee for political follow-up.”

Meanwhile, earlier in February, King Salman visited the Egyptian wing at the Jenaderiyah cultural festival, in what was interpreted as a gesture of restoring relations.

One of the latest points of contention between the two countries concerns the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which Egypt ceded sovereignty over in April 2016, following an agreement between the two governments. However, the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court ruled on January 16 against the agreement, declaring the islands Egyptian. The court argued that the Egyptian government failed to submit documents in support of Saudi sovereignty.

But the legal contest didn’t stop here. On April 2, a court of urgent matters annulled the supreme court’s ruling. Parliament took a decisive step forward on April 10, one day after Coptic Christian churches in Alexandria and Tanta were bombed in attacks claimed by the Province of Sinai. In its first session after the bombings, Parliament referred the case to its legislative and constitutional affairs committee, where it will undergo a preliminary vote before a final vote takes place in the general assembly. It is a development aligned with what officials have said in closed quarters for some time. 

“Saudi Arabia has reassurances from Cairo that it will receive the two islands in any case. But it also blames Cairo for managing this issue poorly,” says an Egyptian official working at the General Secretariat of the Arab League, who spoke to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity.

Slow response to past crashes could hinder EgyptAir search, experts say | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egyptair-airplane-search-technology-idUSKCN0YE1SH

Teams searching for the black box flight recorders of a missing EgyptAir jet that crashed with 66 people aboard face technical constraints that aviation experts increasingly blame on a slow regulatory response to earlier disasters.

As a three-year deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 draws toward a close in the Indian Ocean without finding the airplane, another is starting in the Mediterranean Sea where the lessons of previous crashes have yet to be applied.

Rescuers have barely 30 days until the batteries die on two underwater beacons designed to guide them to the black box flight recorders as they scour 17,000 square kilometers of sea north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.

After previous crashes at sea, regulators agreed to increase the transmission time and range of such beacons to increase the chances of finding evidence and preventing future accidents.

The changes, trebling the life of the ’pingers’ to 90 days, were first recommended by French investigators in late 2009, six months after the crash of an Air France plane in the Atlantic.

But they do not come into effect until 2018: too late to help find EgyptAir 804.

Why Nature Prefers Hexagons - Issue 35: Boundaries
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How do bees do it? The honeycombs in which they store their amber nectar are marvels of precision engineering, an array of prism-shaped cells with a perfectly hexagonal cross-section. The wax walls are made with a very precise thickness, the cells are gently tilted from the horizontal to prevent the viscous honey from running out, and the entire comb is aligned with the Earth’s magnetic field. Yet this structure is made without any blueprint or foresight, by many bees working simultaneously and somehow coordinating their efforts to avoid mismatched cells. The ancient Greek philosopher Pappus of Alexandria thought that the bees must be endowed with “a certain geometrical forethought.” And who could have given them this wisdom, but God? According to William Kirby in 1852, bees are (...)

Perception - eL Seed – – Zaraeeb – Egypt |
▻http://elseed-art.com/el-seed-perception-zaraeeb-egypt

In my new project ‘Perception’ I am questioning the level of judgment and misconception society can unconsciously have upon a community based on their differences.
In the neighborhood of Manshiyat Nasr in Cairo, the Coptic community of Zaraeeb collects the trash of the city for decades and developed the most efficient and highly profitable recycling system on a global level. Still, the place is perceived as dirty, marginalized and segregated.
To bring light on this community, with my team and the help of the local community, I created an anamorphic piece that covers almost 50 buildings only visible from a certain point of the Moqattam Mountain. The piece of art uses the words of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, a Coptic Bishop from the 3rd century, that said: ‘Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first.’
‘إن أراد أحد أن يبصر نور الشمس، فإن عليه أن يمسح عينيه’

The Zaraeeb community welcomed my team and I as we were family. It was one of the most amazing human experience I have ever had. They are generous, honest and strong people. They have been given the name of Zabaleen (the garbage people), but this is not how they call themselves. They don’t live in the garbage but from the garbage; and not their garbage, but the garbage of the whole city. They are the one who clean the city of Cairo.

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#calligraffiti #street_art #calligraphie #coptes #éboueurs

How tight does airport security need to be?

IN THE wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, airports across the globe have upped their security. Europe has, of course, led the way. France has called up an extra 1,600 police officers to bolster security at its borders and transport facilities, including at Charles de Gaulle airport (pictured). Nigeria has deployed dogs to conduct special checks. In Egypt, top security officials are personally handling security checks in and around airports, although that did not prevent the hijacking of a plane bound for Alexandria from Cairo this morning. (Thankfully, that incident has since ended without catastrophe and the hijacker, who reports suggest was wearing a fake explosive belt, has been arrested.) Even Jacksonville International Airport in Florida, the 55th-largest airport in the United States and hardly a top terrorist target, now has police officers carrying long guns.

▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/03/control-shift?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/controlshifthowtightdowewantairportsecuritytobe
#aéroports #sécurité #surveillance

Egypt Labor unrest from north to south | Mada Masr

▻http://www.madamasr.com/sections/politics/labor-unrest-north-south

Thousands of workers across the country are protesting against what they call unfair employment with a spate of industrial actions that have picked up steam in recent weeks.

Protests have been concentrated at the Suez Canal Authority, at hotels and resorts in the Red Sea town of Sharm el-Sheikh, the Shebin al-Kom Textiles Company in Monufiya, the state-owned Petrotrade Company in Alexandria and a fertilizer company in the Upper Egyptian City of Assiut.

In Suez, 2,000 workers employed by companies affiliated with the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) have been holding sit-in protests and partial strikes for close to two weeks.

Le gouvernement égyptien trouve des boucs émissaires sur qui rejeter la responsabilité d’une #inondation qui a fait 15 morts à #Alexandrie

17 alleged Brotherhood members arrested for ‘drowning Alexandria’ - Daily News Egypt
▻http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/11/07/17-brotherhood-members-arrested-for-drowning-alexandria

Fifteen people were killed, including one child, from electrocution due to the floods, and 27 other were injured in Beheira, while two were killed and one was injured in Gharbeya due to the flooding.

One child died, and his sibling was injured in a building collapse in Alexandria due to floods on Friday. The building collapsed when the ceiling of the top floor cracked and fell on its residents, killing three-year-old Mohamed A. and severely injuring his older brother in the head, according to the initial police investigations reported by state-run news agency MENA.

Residents were evacuated until the building is reviewed by the committee for brittle buildings.

Deaths from flooding are a yearly phenomenon, with many coastal and Delta cities flooding during the winter season. It is widely believed that the poor infrastructure is the cause for the repeated yearly deaths.

cf. mon post sur Amman : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/426279 où le gouvernement rejette la responsabilité sur les victimes qui n’auraient pas du habiter là.

A Former #CIA Interrogator on Death, #Torture and the Dark Side
▻http://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/16/former-cia-interrogator-david-martines-story-380520.html

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When David Martine arrived at the redbrick federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, in the summer of 2011, he was three years past his retirement and had not participated in an interrogation since 2007, when he was one of the CIA’s top inquisitors. On this day, however, he was not going to be asking questions. He was going to be answering them.

“#nos_valeurs” #Etats-Unis

C’est pas en Egypte que l’UE voulait externaliser sa politique d’asile ? WOW...

Illegal Immigration : Cairo Deports 36 Sudanese Migrants For Attempting To Reach Italy

Cairo deported 36 Sudanese migrants back to Khartoum, Sudan, after they attempted to emigrate illegally to Italy last week, a government agency reported Thursday, according to Ahram News. The migrants were found on a fishing boat off the northern coast of Egypt.

▻http://www.ibtimes.com/illegal-immigration-cairo-deports-36-sudanese-migrants-attempting-reach-ita
#push-back #refoulement #asile #migration #Egypte #externalisation #réfugiés #Soudan #renvoi #déportation

Egypte et Russie organisent leur 1er exercice militaire conjoint en Méditerranée - Reuters

Russia and Egypt are holding their first ever joint naval exercise, Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday, strengthening the ties between two states which were once Cold War allies.

The eight-day drills off the Mediterranean Egyptian port of Alexandria, beginning today, will include supply and communication at sea, search operations, all forms of defence at sea and firing exercises.

“The goal of the exercise is to strengthen and develop military co-operation between Egypt’s navy and Russia’s navy in the interests of security and stability on the sea,” the ministry said.

Russia is contributing the missile cruiser Moskva, corvette Samum, landing ship Alexander Shabalin, tanker Ivan Bubnov and a tugboat, while Egypt is contributing the frigates Taba and Damiyat, the tanker Shatalin, two patrol boats and two F-16 fighters.

Last month Russia held similar naval exercises with a Chinese squadron in the Mediterranean.

Since Western powers imposed economic sanctions on Russia last year over the Ukraine conflict, Moscow has accelerated attempts to build ties with Asia, Africa and South America, as well as warming relations with its former Soviet-era allies.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been cultivating ties with Egypt, a Soviet ally for much of the Cold War and traditional export market for Russian arms.

He visited the country in February for talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whom Putin has strongly backed.

Le jour même où la planète entière reproche à Seymour Hersh d’utiliser des sources anonymes : CIA’s Jeffrey Sterling Sentenced to 42 Months for Leaking to New York Times Journalist
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/11/sterling-sentenced-for-cia-leak-to-nyt

Alexandria, VA — Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent convicted of sharing classified information with a New York Times reporter, was sentenced today to three and a half years in prison, a significantly shorter term than had been expected.

Sterling’s lawyers had asked the judge not to abide by sentencing guidelines calling for 19 to 24 years behind bars. They argued Sterling should be treated with the same leniency shown to former Gen. David Petraeus, who was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and avoid prison after admitting to leaking classified information to his biographer and then-girlfriend, Paula Broadwell. Sterling’s lawyers also pointed to the case of former CIA agent John Kiriakou, who was recently released from jail after a 30-month sentence for disclosing the name of a covert agent to a reporter, and to the 13-month-sentence handed down to Stephen Kim, who pleaded guilty to talking about a classified document with a Fox News reporter.

Egypte : La peine de prison des 2 policiers qui ont battu à mort Khaled Saïd confirmée. Son décès a été l’un des déclencheurs de la révolte de 2011 - Ahram

A Cairo court on Wednesday rejected appeals by two policemen, upholding 10-year jail sentence over the torturing to death of Alexandria native Khaled Said, whose murder in June 2010 galvanised the protest movement that led the outbreak of the 25 January revolution, a judicial source told Ahram Online.

The decision by the Court of Cassation, Egypt’s highest criminal court and legal authority, is final and cannot be appealed.

The pair were sentenced to seven years in prison in 2011.

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#Egypt Textile workers killed in factory collapse, shot in labor protest | Mada Masr

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Egypt’s textile industry was dealt a hand of fatal blows this week when a garment factory collapsed in Obour City, claiming at least five lives, and at least seven textile workers were shot by police forces in Alexandria when a labor protest turned violent.

On Tuesday, rescue teams recovered the fifth body from the rubble of a garment dying factory that collapsed early on Monday morning in Obour City, an industrial area outside of Cairo. The incident also reportedly injured more than 30 workers, who were on the night shift at the time of the accident.

Libyan-Egyptian truck traffic to be halted - Daily News Egypt
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Egyptian authorities declare state of emergency around Libyan border,
Egyptian authorities are due to halt the movement of trucks from Egypt to Libya on 18 July, General Anani Hassan, security director of the Matruh governorate, told state-owned Al-Ahram on Tuesday.

Authorities also declared a state of emergency from Western Alexandria to the Egyptian-Libyan border.

Hassan said they received a notification about the deteriorating security situation from the Libyan side Monday night. Following the notification, Egyptian authorities decided that only Egyptian workers leaving Libya can enter Egypt, while only Libyan migrants and Libyan trucks, driven solely by Libyans, can enter Libya, effective by Friday 18 July.