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  • Party refuses Sudan decision to consider Halayib & Shalateen constituency

    Date: 2014-09-10 17:08:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:131 - ID:916070

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) - The Generation Party on Wednesday refused to the decision of the Sudanese government to consider Halayib and Shalateen as a Sudanese electoral constituency. In a statement, the party's chief Nagy al-Shehaby said that such ....

  • AOI delegation visits new Suez Canal project

    Date: 2014-09-10 17:01:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:128 - ID:916066

    ISMAILIA, Sept 10 (MENA) – A delegation of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI), headed buy AOI chief Abdel Aziz Seif el-Din, has visited the New Suez Canal project site. Seif el-Din hailed the project as historic, adding that the ....

  • Pope Tawadros opens alter of Anba Bishoy's church in Canada

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:55:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:125 - ID:916163

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria opened on Wednesday the altar of Anba Bishoy's Church in the Canadian city of Toronto. On September 3, Tawadros started a European visit that included, beside Canada, Austria and Switzerland. ....

  • Businessman turns himself in to investigative panel in Ahram corruption case

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:48:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:122 - ID:916071

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) - Egyptian businessman Ehab Talaat has turned himself in to an inquiry committee under counselor Tharwat Hamad for interrogation over state-run Ahram newspaper corruption case. During interrogation on Wednesday, Talaat said ....

  • Deal between govt, OFID for Assiut power plant

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:45:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:121 - ID:916095

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) - The Cabinet approved Wednesday a loan deal between the government and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for funding a power plant in Assuit. The plant aims to boost electricity supply for people in the ....

  • Legislative committee, Defense Ministry's representatives to meet on borders' security

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:36:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:120 - ID:916073

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) – The committee for the legislative reform will hold a meeting with representatives from the Defense Ministry on Sunday to discuss boosting the border security, an informed source said Wednesday. The meeting is expected to ....

  • SFD to sign protocol with World Bank,EU Saturday

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:33:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:119 - ID:915967

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) – Acting Secretary General of Social Fund for Development Hana Al-Hilali said on Wednesday that the Fund would sign Saturday a loan of 67 million euros with the World Bank and the European Union. The loan will be used in ....

  • Egypt, UK sign cooperation agreement in scientific research: Univ. President

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:13:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:116 - ID:916034

    BANHA, Sept 10 (MENA) - Banha University President Ali Shamsuddin said Wednesday that Scientific Research Minister Sherif Hamad will sign a cooperation agreement with UK Higher Education Academy. The agreement comes in the framework of Newton ....

  • Egypt judges hold emergency meeting Friday to 'face terror plots'

    Date: 2014-09-10 16:02:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:115 - ID:916080

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) - The club of the Egyptian judges is to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to confront what it called "terror plots against judges". The announcement made after a shootout at son of a Cairo court appeal judge Mahmoud El-Sayed ....

  • Alaa Abdel-Fattah, co-defendants retrial delayed to Monday

    Date: 2014-09-10 15:59:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:113 - ID:915981

    CAIRO, Sept 10 (MENA) – Cairo Criminal Court deferred till Monday the retrial of prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and 24 others over violence charges. The delay is to hear testimony of witnesses. They face charges of staging protests ....

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