Egypt

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  • Minya security bodies search for vandals

    Date: 2014-09-05 05:35:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:907114

    MINYA, Upper Egypt, Sept 5 (MENA) – Security bodies are searching for unidentified persons who threw petrol bombs on three power transformers in Samalut, Minya, setting them on fire. Firefighters had doused the flames before maintenance officials ....

  • Firefighters put out fire at Giza power transformers

    Date: 2014-09-05 05:02:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:907103

    GIZA, Egypt, Sept 5 (MENA) – Firefighters controlled a fire that erupted at dawn in seven power transformers in the Giza district of Hadayek El-Ahram. Technicians have reported a malfunction in “Transformer 4” in the district on Thursday morning ....

  • Libya FM arrives in Cairo

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:54:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:129 - ID:907024

    CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) - Libya's Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdel Aziz arrived in Cairo on Thursday on a several days' visit to Egypt to take part in a meeting of the Arab foreign ministers slated for Sunday. The meeting is expected to discuss the ....

  • FM wraps up visit to Ethiopia

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:49:35 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:128 - ID:907023

    ADDIS ABABA, Sept 4 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry left here on Thursday wrapping up his one-day visit to Ethiopia. During the visit, the top Egyptian diplomat handed Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn a message from ....

  • Egyptians in Austria mourns leftist Abul-Ezz el-Hariri

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:42:52 GMT - Austria - Egypt - SN:127 - ID:907014

    VIENNA, Sept 4 (MENA) - The General Union of Egyptians in Austria paid tribute to prominent leftist politician and labor activist Abul-Ezz El-Hariri who died Wednesday. In a statement on Thursday, the union said Egypt has lost a prominent ....

  • AL Council meeting approves number of draft resolutions

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:38:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:126 - ID:907010

    CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) - The Arab League Council's two-day meeting at the level of permanent delegates prepared a number of draft resolutions that will be filed with the AL council at the level of ministers due on Sunday. The ministerial meeting is ....

  • Culture minister, NCW head ink cooperation memo

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:28:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:125 - ID:907013

    CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) - The Culture Ministry and the National Council for Women (NCW) signed Thursday a memorandum of understanding. The deal was inked by minister Gaber Asfour and NCW head Mervat Tellawi The memo aims at drawing up a strategy to ....

  • 16 militants killed, 30 arrested in five days in Sinai -- spokesman

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:17:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:124 - ID:906990

    CAIRO, Sept 4 (MENA) – Military spokesman Mohamed Samir said Thursday that 16 Takfiris were killed while 30 others were arrested in security campaigns during the past five days. In a statement, the spokesman said that the army and police joint ....

  • 736 cross Rafah terminal

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:11:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:123 - ID:906998

    RAFAH, Egypt, Sept 4 (MENA) - As many as 736 people crossed Rafah terminal between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, an official with the crossing said. As many as 380 people arrived in Egypt from Gaza, while 356 others left for the opposite ....

  • Explosive device defused in North Sinai

    Date: 2014-09-04 21:07:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:122 - ID:907012

    ARISH, Egypt, Sept 4 (MENA) – Sappers defused Thursday an explosive device on Arish-Rafah road. The bomb was planted to target passing security forces there, a security source said. The source added the bomb was similar to the one that ....

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