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  • Shoukri meets EU human rights envoy

    Date: 2014-10-20 18:11:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:131 - ID:1165265

    CAIRO, Oct 20 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri met on Monday with Stavros Lambrinidis, the EU Special Representative for Human Rights, currently visiting Cairo. Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti said the meeting dealt with efforts ....

  • Head of Damietta port, UAE investors discuss establishing global logistics region

    Date: 2014-10-20 18:07:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:130 - ID:1165261

    DAMIETTA, Oct 20 (MENA) – Head of Damietta Port Authority Ayman Saleh held a meeting Monday with a delegation of UAE investors to discuss establishing a global logistics region for grain at the port. In statements on Monday, Saleh said that the ....

  • Education min. not sacked: Source

    Date: 2014-10-20 18:04:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:129 - ID:1164993

    CAIRO, Oct 20 (MENA) - A well-placed source at the education ministry has said the minister of education was not sacked. "Rumors that Education Minister Mahmoud Abul-Nasr was dismissed are unfounded," the source told MENA. (MENA) AF/AI ....

  • 70 million cubic meters dug in new Suez Canal project

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:33:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:126 - ID:1164969

    SUEZ CANAL, Oct 20 (MENA) - The total digging operations at the new Suez Canal project hit 70 million cubic meters till Thursday after the end of the digging of a sub-canal connected to the main canal course. The deputy supervisor of the project ....

  • Economists hail upgrading Egypt's credit outlook

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:32:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:125 - ID:1164909

    CAIRO, Oct 20 (MENA) - Economists have welcomed Moody's Investors Service decision to change Egypt's outlook to stable from negative. Executive Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies Sheriff Diwani said the political and security ....

  • 10 wanted people arrested in N. Sinai

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:24:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:122 - ID:1165085

    ARISH, Egypt, Oct 20 (MENA) – North Sinai Security forces have arrested 10 wanted people, security sources said on Monday. As many as 30 terrorist hotbeds and 10 motorcycles belonging to takfiri elements were destroyed in the campaign that ....

  • Arab delegation to Gaza Strip postponed

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:24:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:121 - ID:1164953

    CAIRO, Oct 20 (MENA) - The visit to Gaza Strip by an Arab Ministerial delegation has been postponed. An Arab League source said Monday that the visit, which was due to start today (Monday) under Kuwaiti foreign minister Sabah al-Khaled, was ....

  • Aswan to celebrate solar phenomenon at Ramsis II temple

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:16:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:116 - ID:1163793

    ASWAN, Egypt, Oct 20 (MENA) - Aswan will celebrate on Tuesday the phenomenon of the falling of sun rays perpendicularly on the face of King Ramsis II statue at Abu Simbel Temple in the presence of the governor and a number of officials from the ....

  • 36 referred to trial over terrorist crimes

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:16:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:115 - ID:1164445

    CAIRO, Oct 20 (MENA) - As many as 36 terror suspects were referred to trial Monday over collection of donations from participants in Rabaa el-Adawiya and el-Nahda sit-in camps to buy arms and ammunition. As many as 14 others are still at ....

  • Economic committee probes preprations for Egypt friends conf.

    Date: 2014-10-20 17:13:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:113 - ID:1164433

    CAIRO, Oct 20 (MENA) The Ministerial Economic Committee held a meeting Monday under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab. The meeting dealt with the preparations for Egypt's friends conference early next year, as well as the financial and monetary ....

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