Egypt

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  • Armed Forces celebrate new Hijri year

    Date: 2014-10-22 14:35:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:70 - ID:1177513

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - Minister of Defense and Military Production Sedki Sobhi extended greetings to the Armed Forces on the new Hijri year 1436. In an address read out on his behalf by Assistant Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Medhat ....

  • 4 policemen wounded in blast in Giza's Nahda Square

    Date: 2014-10-22 14:31:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:69 - ID:1178021

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - Three police officers and a conscript were wounded Wednesday after a home-made bomb exploded at Giza's Nahda Square, a security source said. Police are now combing the area in search for any other explosives, he added. ....

  • Police exchange fire with smugglers in Sinai

    Date: 2014-10-22 14:08:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:67 - ID:1177533

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - An official source said on Wednesday security forces exchanged fire with smugglers in Sinai. There are no reports of causalities among the security forces. A manhunt was launched for the smugglers, the source ....

  • Boutros-Ghali: EU institutions should review stances against Egypt

    Date: 2014-10-22 14:05:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:66 - ID:1176365

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali warned on Wednesday about the hostile European Union institutions' stances toward the Egyptian people. In a statement, Ghali asserted that these European institutions should ....

  • Universities more capable of facing on-campus riots -- president of Cairo University

    Date: 2014-10-22 14:02:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:65 - ID:1176393

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - Universities have become more capable of facing on-campus riots, said the president of Cairo University, stressing that academic studies have been going on normally at all universities since day one of the new academic ....

  • ID issuance for Egypt expats in US extended to Friday

    Date: 2014-10-22 13:57:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:63 - ID:1176949

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - A delegation of the Civil Registration Authority has decided to extend its stay in the United States of America for an additional three days. The decision is to allow the largest number of Egyptians to update their ....

  • Cabinet reviews security, economic files

    Date: 2014-10-22 13:56:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:1177549

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - The Cabinet, under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, reviewed on Wednesday a number of security end economic files in Egypt. Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said the ministry will step up its efforts to arrest terrorists and ....

  • Celebration held to mark Suez's national day

    Date: 2014-10-22 13:53:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:1176945

    SUEZ, Egypt, Oct 22 (MENA) - A celebration was held in Suez province to mark its national day. Suez Governor El-Arabi el-Serwi and the province's security director Tareq el-Gazzar laid wreaths at the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier. Suez ....

  • Sisi meets Beblawi on occasion of taking post in IMF

    Date: 2014-10-22 13:46:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:59 - ID:1177521

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received Wednesday former prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi who has just assumed the post of executive manager of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Presidential spokesman Alaa Yousef said ....

  • Interior min. greets top army commanders on new Hijri year

    Date: 2014-10-22 13:40:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:1176401

    CAIRO, Oct 22 (MENA) - Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has sent two cables to Defense Minister Sedky Sobhy and Chief of Staff Mahmoud Hegazi to greet them on the new Hijri year. In his cables, Ibrahim wished Sobhy and Hegazi great success in ....

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