Egypt close to securing deal for up to 100 South Korean FA-50 light attack aircraft
Egypt is in advanced negotiations with South Korea to buy up to 100 FA-50 light attack aircraft, Egyptian Ambassador to
French Algerian writer Kamel Daoud has won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centered on Algeria'scivil war between the government and Islamists in the 1990s, organizers said. The jury needed just one round of voting to award the coveted prize to Daoud, who is based in Algeria, for his novel "Houris" about what has become known as Algeria's "black decade".
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