Egypt

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  • Egypt is strongly determined to eliminate terrorism - Interior Minister

    Date: 2014-11-02 15:48:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:93 - ID:1250553

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) - Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim on Sunday said Egypt's war on terrorism is not less important than the wars it had fought against its enemies over its long history. During a meeting with South Sinai security personnel, the ....

  • Trial of 55 MB members in Sohag postponed to Monday

    Date: 2014-11-02 15:30:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:91 - ID:1250549

    SOHAG, Egypt, Nov 2 (MENA) - Sohag criminal court adjourned Sunday the trial of 55 members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) till Monday. The defendants stand trial over charges of attacking police officers, possessing unlicensed firearms, ....

  • Grand Egyptian Museum to host 1st int'l conference on Tutankhamun

    Date: 2014-11-02 15:29:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:90 - ID:1249361

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) – The Board of Directors of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) headed by Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty decided on Sunday to host the first international conference on Tutankhamun in May of next year. The antiquities ....

  • PM urges setting time-table for one-million-feddan reclamation project

    Date: 2014-11-02 15:23:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:89 - ID:1249549

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) – Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab held a meeting on Sunday to get acquainted with progress in implementing the national project to increase the size of agricultural lands. The project comes within the framework of the government's ....

  • Trial of 17 senior MB members delayed to next Sunday

    Date: 2014-11-02 15:16:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:88 - ID:1250189

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court decided to postpone until next Sunday the trial of 17 senior members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) till the first day of November. The defendants are accused of killing peaceful demonstrators ....

  • Sisi raises number of university scholarships for Somali students

    Date: 2014-11-02 15:08:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:85 - ID:1250393

    ASWAN, Upper Egypt, Nov 2 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi had agreed to raise the number of scholarships for Somali students at Egyptian universities to 200 each year, Aswan University President Mansour Kabash said. Kabash made the remark ....

  • Mahlab discusses problems of Workers University

    Date: 2014-11-02 14:59:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:83 - ID:1250161

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has convened a meeting to discuss problems of the Workers University. The meeting was attended by ministers of manpower and migration Nahed El-Ashry and of electricity Mohamed Shaker in addition ....

  • Trial of lawyer, 2 journalists over libel charges adjourned to Dec. 7

    Date: 2014-11-02 14:49:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:82 - ID:1250193

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) - Giza Criminal Court adjourned to a December 7 session the trial of lawyer Essam Sultan, Al Masry Al Youm's journalist Sherine Rabie and executive editor in chief Mohamed Samir Saeed on libel charges. Sultan had been ....

  • AL expresses solidarity with Egypt against terrorism

    Date: 2014-11-02 14:48:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:81 - ID:1249697

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) - The Arab League council has condemned the terrorist attack that targeted Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai nearly ten days ago in which about 30 soldiers fell martyrs. The council expressed, in a statement after an ....

  • Court says activist's recusal lawsuit cannot be examined

    Date: 2014-11-02 14:45:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:79 - ID:1249881

    CAIRO, Nov 2 (MENA) – A Cairo appeals court said that a recusal lawsuit filed by political activist Ahmed Doma against the criminal court panel trying him over violence charges cannot be examined. As many as 293 defendants, including Doma, are ....

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