Egypt

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  • Egypt's stability contributed to increasing tourists: Zaazou

    Date: 2014-09-16 14:41:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:97 - ID:951653

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) - Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said that the stability experienced by Egypt over the past period had contributed to increasing tourism movement, mainly Arab tourists. Addressing the 39th meeting of the World Tourism ....

  • Health min. visits Beni Suef bus crash victims

    Date: 2014-09-16 14:30:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:91 - ID:951665

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) – Health Minister Adel Adawi visited on Tuesday victims of a road accident in Beni Suef who are receiving medical treatment in Beni Suef General Hospital. Earlier in the day, a bus collision ended the life of nine people and ....

  • El-Zend files EGP 1m defamation suit against newspaper

    Date: 2014-09-16 14:11:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:87 - ID:950265

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) - Head of the Judges' Club Ahmad el-Zend filed a defamation lawsuit against Al Ahram newspaper's website. El-Zend filed an EGP one million lawsuit against the website, the writer of the article and the executive chief ....

  • Bomb blast hits water pipeline in 10th of Ramadan city

    Date: 2014-09-16 14:10:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:86 - ID:951021

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Sept 16 (MENA) - Unidentified men detonated the main water pipeline in the 10th of Ramadan city causing a water supply interruption. "The pipeline was detonated using a homemade bomb," a security source said. Nno causalities were ....

  • Azhar Grand Imam receives Brunei ambassador in Cairo

    Date: 2014-09-16 14:08:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:84 - ID:951297

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) - Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayyeb received on Tuesday Brunei's Ambassador in Cairo Dato Paduka Hj Mahdi on the occasion of the expiry of his tenure in Egypt. Mahdi thanked el-Tayyeb for his efforts to serve Islam and ....

  • 9 MB loyalists sentenced to three years in jail

    Date: 2014-09-16 13:00:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:80 - ID:950661

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Sept 16 (MENA) – A criminal court in Zagazig on Tuesday sentenced nine loyalists to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group to three years in prison over violence charges. The defendants are accused of rioting, partaking in ....

  • Independent fact-finding committee says probe into June 30 incidents impartial, objective

    Date: 2014-09-16 12:59:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:79 - ID:950505

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) - An independent fact-finding committee probing incidents that followed the June 30 Revolution issued a statement Tuesday, stressing it is not working with the government. The committee is independent, impartial and ....

  • Sisi allocates land to water, sanitation authority

    Date: 2014-09-16 12:57:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:78 - ID:950561

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued on Tuesday a decree approving the re-allocation of State-owned lands to the National Authority for Drinking Water and sanitation. The allocated land is located in Aswan, Assuit and Red ....

  • Egypt expresses grave concern over continuing deterioration in Syria

    Date: 2014-09-16 12:56:17 GMT - Switzerland - Egypt - SN:77 - ID:950713

    GENEVA, Sept 16 (MENA) - Head of Egypt's mission to the United Nations in Geneva Amr Ramadan said o Tuesday Egypt is following up with growing concern the continuing deterioration in Syria and its worsening negative impact on security, human rights, ....

  • Egypt to increase growth rate by 5% in 3 years: Minister

    Date: 2014-09-16 12:51:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:73 - ID:949209

    CAIRO, Sept 16 (MENA) - Finance Minister Hany Kadry said Egypt tries to rease the growth rate to five percent over the next three years. Speaking at the Euromoney’s Egypt Conference, the minister expected achieving a rate of three percent in ....

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