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    Date: 2020-04-02 04:38:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:8379153

    CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - Following are the major headlines in Egypt's local press: -- AL AHRAM: - Sisi follows up state efforts to combat coronavirus - Health ministry: 179 coronavirus patients cured, 69 new cases recorded, 6 new deaths - ....

  • SSA mourns Islamic thinker Zaqzouq

    Date: 2020-04-01 20:10:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:75 - ID:8379010

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) – Al Azhar's Senior Scholars Authority (SSA) has mourned Islamic thinker Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 87. In a statement, the SSA expressed heart-felt condolences to his family, Muslim ....

  • Health Ministry: COVID 19 claims 6 more deaths, 22 recovered

    Date: 2020-04-01 19:52:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:71 - ID:8378993

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA)- The Health and Population Ministry said on Wednesday 22 people checked out of isolation hospital after receiving necessary medical care from coronavirus, to bring the number of recoveries to 179. The recovered cases ....

  • Pontifical council for interreligious dialogue mourns Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq

    Date: 2020-04-01 19:34:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:70 - ID:8378931

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) - President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue Miguel Ayuso Guixot mourned Dr Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, head of Al Azhar’s interreligious dialogue center and former awqaf minister, who died on Wednesday at the ....

  • Education ministry working assiduously to support students amid coronavirus crisis- minister

    Date: 2020-04-01 19:29:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:68 - ID:8378712

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) – Minister of Education Tarek Shawky said Wednesday that his ministry is working assiduously and sparing no efforts to help students inside the country and abroad to continue their study amid the coronavirus pandemic crisis. ....

  • Awqaf Minister mourns death of Islamic thinker Zakzouk

    Date: 2020-04-01 18:48:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:8378818

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) – Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa has mourned the death of great Islamic thinker Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk, who passed away earlier on Wednesday. Zakzouk was a former awqaf minister and a member of Al Azhar's Council of ....

  • 87 Egyptians stuck in France by COVID-19 pandemic back home

    Date: 2020-04-01 18:32:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:60 - ID:8378703

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) – Eighty-seven Egyptians, caught in limbo in France by a coronavirus-related flight suspension until April 15, arrived here on Wednesday aboard a flight operated by Air Cairo Airlines. Upon their arrival at Cairo ....

  • Communication Minister: Necessary measures taken to facilitate disbursement of pensions via post offices

    Date: 2020-04-01 17:58:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:8378783

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) - Communications and Information Technology Minister Amr Talaat said on Wednesday necessary steps were taken to facilitate disbursement of pensions via post offices nationwide in a bid to avoid any congestion as a precautionary ....

  • Egypt's Mufti mourns death of former awqaf minister

    Date: 2020-04-01 17:52:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:8378815

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) – Egypt's Mufti Shawqi Allam has mourned the death of former awqaf minister Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk, who passed away earlier on Wednesday. The Mufti extended his heartfelt condolences to the Islamic thinker's family. He ....

  • Sudanese party leader denies Egypt's involvement in 1970 Aba Island attack

    Date: 2020-04-01 17:49:41 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:8378645

    KHARTOUM, April 1 (MENA) - Chairman of the Sudanese Umma Party Al Sadiq al Hadi al Mahdi stressed on Wednesday that Egyptian pilots had not bombarded the Aba Island, south of Khartoum, in March 1970, an incident which left hundreds of the Ansar ....

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