During its drawn-out labor dispute with Health Ministry doctors, the government claimed that many of them really get paid at state hospitals while working in private clinics. So the doctors agreed to register at work so that their working hours would be verifiable.
When the system was launched yesterday, a full 40 percent of doctors refused to use it. They chose to forgo overtime payments in order to hide the time they spend away from their hospitals.



An Egyptian delegation is in talks with US congressmen over a fateful decision: will the United States continue its $1.3 billion annual aid to Egypt after the country falls to the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists in democratic elections?