Egypt

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  • Police officer shot dead in Ismailia

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:51:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:170 - ID:400277

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) – A police officer was shot dead in Ismailia by unidentified armed men on Thursday. Two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at a checkpoint in Mantaqa el Sabaa in Ismailia, injuring First Lieutenant Ahmed Radwan ....

  • Lawyers movement calls for retribution for martyrs

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:42:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:169 - ID:400223

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) – The self-proclaimed Lawyers for Justice Movement has called for retribution for soldiers who were killed in a terrorist attack on Wednesday in North Sinai. In a statement on Thursday, the movement offered condolences to the ....

  • 82 trucks loaded with construction materials enter Gaza

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:32:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:167 - ID:400208

    RAFAH, Egypt, Nov 21 (MENA) – Eighty-two trucks loaded with construction materials were allowed Thursday into the Gaza Strip via Rafah border crossing, an official source said. They included 67 trucks carrying 3,015 cubic meters of gravel, 10 ....

  • Tourism min. receives Russia, Britain decisions to lift travel ban on Egypt

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:29:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:166 - ID:400184

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) – Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Za'zou said on Thursday that Russia has a lifted travel ban on Egypt's coastal cities. In a press conference after a Cabinet meeting, Za'zou said he received a phone call from the British ....

  • Egypt embassy in Paris restores 6 artifacts looted in 2011

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:25:07 GMT - France - Egypt - SN:164 - ID:400207

    PARIS, Nov 21 (MENA) – Egypt's embassy in Paris has restored six ancient Egyptian objects that were looted and smuggled from Egypt in 2011. Egypt's Ambassador to France Mohamed Mustafa Kamel received the artifacts Thursday from the French ....

  • Sudan lauds Egyptian decision to bring Wadi El Nile radio back on air

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:22:17 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:165 - ID:400211

    KHARTOUM, Nov 21 (MENA) – Sudanese national radio chief Moatassem Fadel Abdel Kader has praised an Egyptian initiative to resume the broadcast of Wadi El-Nil Radio on the Nile Sat. During his meeting with director of the rebroadcast Sabry Abbas ....

  • Cabinet takes action to implement decision on maximum wages, relieve opera national performances from taxes

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:14:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:163 - ID:400161

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) – Egypt's Cabinet issued a package of orders Thursday to make a list of all state employees holding high positions in preparation for carrying out the maximum wages system set to be enforced as of January 2014. The orders ....

  • Miles of Smiles convoy crosses Rafah terminal into Gaza

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:09:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:162 - ID:400210

    EL ARISH, Nov 21 (MENA) – Miles of Smiles 23 Convoy on Thursday crossed the Rafah border into the Gaza Strip in a show of support for the besieged enclave. The convoy contains of two ambulances, wheelchairs, clothes and medical equipment, an ....

  • 29 suspected terrorists held in security campaign in Arish

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:08:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:161 - ID:400125

    ARISH, Egypt, Nov 21 (MENA) - As many as 29 suspected terrorists were arrested as part of an expanded security operation in Arish and Sheikh Zuwaid in North Sinai. Also, 14 houses and 29 huts, used by terrorists, were destroyed. (MENA) MM/RE ....

  • 5 people referred to criminal court over attacking prison vehicle

    Date: 2013-11-21 19:06:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:160 - ID:400036

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) - Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat ordered on Thursday referring five people for an urgent trial before the criminal court over charges of blocking the way of a prison vehicle at Nasr City suburb in Cairo in October. The ....

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