Egypt

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  • Religious celebrations by Shiites are banned in Egypt: ministry

    Date: 2013-11-11 14:49:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:104 - ID:381357

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - The Ministry of Awqaf will not allow holding any religious celebrations by Shiites in Egypt on the occasion marking Ashoura Day that will fall on Thursday. Minister of Awqaf Mohamed Goma said in press statements that the ....

  • Fahmy delegates his assistant to visit Myanmar

    Date: 2013-11-11 14:41:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:102 - ID:381399

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy delegated his assistant minister for multilateral affairs and international security to visit Myanmar as part of a high-level delegation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)'s ....

  • Youth ministry hosts Salmawy, El-Gebaly, El-Yazal in political awareness symposiums

    Date: 2013-11-11 14:31:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:99 - ID:381173

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Egypt's Youth Ministry has resumed its political awareness symposiums launched recently in the Egyptian governorates. On its theater, the ministry is scheduled to host constitutional law professor Raafat Fouda, member of ....

  • Irrigation minister opens pumping station in Kafr Sheikh

    Date: 2013-11-11 14:21:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:94 - ID:381288

    KAFR SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 11 (MENA) - Irrigation and Water Resources Minister Mohamed Abdel-Motleb opened on Monday a pumping station in Kafr el-Sheikh, north of Cairo. Abdel-Motleb, who inspected another water station in Motobas and some projects ....

  • Report: Umraniya child killed by MB members

    Date: 2013-11-11 14:08:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:93 - ID:381337

    CAIRO, Nov 11(MENA) - The National Council for Motherhood and Childhood on Monday received a response to the complaint it had lodged with the office of the prosecution general about the murder of a child in Al-Umraniya district during a march by the ....

  • Chief editor released on bail over charges of insulting the judiciary

    Date: 2013-11-11 13:58:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:89 - ID:381290

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Cairo Court of Appeal on Monday released chief editor of Al-Ummah newspaper Abdel Halim Qandil on 1,000 pounds bail pending probe in the case of insulting the judiciary. When faced with evidence showing he had insulted men ....

  • -Eryan held for more 15 days pending investigation on violence and murder related charges

    Date: 2013-11-11 13:46:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:85 - ID:381245

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood Essam El-Eryan was ordered by High South Giza Prosecution to be held for more 15 days pending investigation on violence and murder related charges. Eryan is accused of involvement ....

  • Cabinet: Butane gas cylinder crisis to be over within days

    Date: 2013-11-11 13:32:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:84 - ID:381049

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy is following up with the ministers of petroleum and supply ongoing measures to solve the problem of lack of butane gas cylinders. The crisis is going to be solved within the coming few days ....

  • Weapons caches found in Rafah, near border with Libya

    Date: 2013-11-11 13:31:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:83 - ID:381174

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Military troops have seized a weapons cache in Rafah in North Sinai, said an official military source on Monday. Ten machine guns and anti-aircraft rockets with a large quantity of ammunition were found at the site, said ....

  • Russian foreign affairs, defense ministers' visit to Cairo to herald new chapter in ties with Egypt - ambassador

    Date: 2013-11-11 13:15:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:80 - ID:381170

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Russian Ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kerbachenko said that the visit by the Russian ministers of defense and foreign affairs to Egypt on Wednesday would be a new chapter in Moscow-Cairo ties. In an exclusive interview with ....

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