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CAIRO, Dec 28 (Aswat Masriya) – Our daily roundup of headlines in Egypt's main state-owned and private newspapers on Dec. 28, 2016:
Al-Akhbar:
- Al-Sisi: Providing all medicines with convenient prices.
- Prime Minister to the President: We reached a final agreement with pharmaceutical companies.
- 10% incentive for those who are not included in the civil service law to be added to January's payroll.
- Administrative Control Authority targets major corruption.
- EGP 150 million confiscated at a State Council general manager's home.
Al-Ahram:
- Expansion in civil products for military production.
- President: Highest levels of quality for local products to serve citizens' needs.
- Libyan intellects call on Cairo to stop the conflict immediately.
- Russia accuses Obama of escalating the global situation ahead of Trump's inauguration.
- Found by the Administrative Control Authority...EGP150m, different currencies found at a defendant's home charged with bribery.
- Zamalek objects to the Hungarian referee in a match with Al-Ahly.
Al-Masry Al-Youm:
- Russian tourism approaches.. "Nuclear" project in days.
- Moscow: We are ready to resume flights in January.. Decision is in Putin's hands.
- Shaker: Nuclear energy talks are in the final stage..We seek highest levels of safety.
- Health committee at the Parliament agrees on raising medicines prices.
- Iraqi ambassador: Enormous tube to transfer petrol and gas to Egypt worth USD 3 bn.
Al-Shorouk:
- The cabinet preliminary agrees on raising prices of medicine, and refuses to bear the difference.
- Medicine prices increase by 15-20%.. Ismail agrees on increasing medical treatment at state expense's budget with EGP 2 bn.
- The President assigns the "military production" to increase local manufacture to limit imports.
- Today..Al-Sisi in Port Said to inaugurate fish farming project, floating bridge, and opera house.
- ACA: EGP 149 million found inside an employee's house.
-10 defendants released on health grounds in Rabaa dispersal trial.
Al-Watan:
- Al-Sisi calls for increasing local produce to mitigate the burden on citizens.
- Parliament seeks imposing taxes on online trading.
- Interior ministry: The final match will be without audience.