CAIRO: Egypt's Prime Minister Sharif Ismail left the country Thursday for a three-week course of medical treatment and surgery in Germany amid speculation he would be permanently replaced in a cabinet shuffle.

The cabinet said on Wednesday evening that Ismail would head to Germany for "three weeks" for the treatment.

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