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  • Egypt following up with concern anti-Islam measures in Angola: spokesman

    Date: 2013-11-26 16:53:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:124 - ID:408379

    CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) – Egypt is following with concern press reports that the Angolan government is taking measures against Islam and restricts the building of mosques, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Information about these ....

  • Court sentences two Muslim Brotherhood members to five years in prison over forming armed gang to rob people in Qalyoubia

    Date: 2013-11-26 16:52:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:123 - ID:408208

    BANHA, Egypt, Nov 26 (MENA) - Shubra el-Khaima Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced two Muslim Brotherhood members to five years in prison over forming an armed gang to rob people in Qalyoubia. The case started when Qalyoubia Security Director Major ....

  • Fahmi discusses coop with ESCWA chief

    Date: 2013-11-26 16:40:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:120 - ID:408309

    CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi met Tuesday Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Rima Khalaf. During the meeting, the two sides discussed cooperation between Egypt and ESCWA and ....

  • Ministers of local development, health, planning meet in Qena to discuss Upper Egypt investment plan

    Date: 2013-11-26 16:11:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:116 - ID:408251

    QENA, Upper Egypt, Nov 26 (MENA) - The ministers of local development, health and planning met Tuesday with the governors of Qena, Luxor and Sohag to discuss an urgent investment plan for Upper Egypt. Some 29.7 billion pounds have been allocated ....

  • 2 topics need to be further explained in constitution's preamble -- Salmawy

    Date: 2013-11-26 16:06:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:115 - ID:408301

    CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) - The spokesman for the committee of 50 entrusted with amending Egypt's constitution said that there are two questions in the preamble of the rewritten draft of the national charter that need to be further profoundly and ....

  • Security forces detain 20 protesters who took part in a rally at Shura Council

    Date: 2013-11-26 15:11:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:109 - ID:408149

    CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) - Security forces have detained up to 20 protesters who took part in a rally at the Shura Council on Tuesday calling for cancelling military trials articles in the new constitution. The forces dispersed the protesters with ....

  • EU embassy in Cairo: envoy did not describe June 30 as revolution

    Date: 2013-11-26 14:37:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:103 - ID:407996

    CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) - The European Union embassy in Cairo said Tuesday that a translated interview with its envoy here included misinterpretations, the most striking of which was the wrongly stated "June 30 Revolution". Egypt Independent wrongly ....

  • Prosecution in Suez remands for 15 days 12 leaders of Islamist and Salafist groups supporting ousted president Morsi.

    Date: 2013-11-26 13:56:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:95 - ID:407939

    SUEZ, Egypt, Nov 26 (MENA) - The Military Prosecution in Suez on Tuesday decided holding in remand for 15 days 12 leaders of Islamist and Salafist groups, who are supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi. A judicial source with the Military ....

  • MB students organize march at Fayyoum University

    Date: 2013-11-26 13:55:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:94 - ID:407976

    FAYYOUM, Egypt, Nov 26 (MENA) - Dozens of Fayyoum University students supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood group organized an on-campus march Tuesday against the new bill regulating protests in the country. The students chanted slogans calling ....

  • No security problems facing tourists in Egypt -- minister

    Date: 2013-11-26 13:44:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:93 - ID:407955

    CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) - Minister of Tourism Hisham Zazou on Tuesday said that no security problems are facing tourists visiting Egypt. At a meeting with a media delegation from Slovakia, he added that tourists in Egypt are not targeted. He ....

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