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N. Sinai governor forms operation room to support Christian families in peninsula
Date: 2017-02-25 15:50:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:6586777
Al ARISH, Egypt, Feb 25 (MENA) – Governor of North Sinai Abdel Fatah Harhour issued a decision Saturday to form an operation room that would follow up the status of Coptic Christian families in the peninsula after deadly attacks. The room was ....
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Irrigation ministry denies injecting EGP 600 billion into state treasury over adjusting conditions of 500,000 feddans on Nile River
Date: 2017-02-25 15:48:53 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:61 - ID:6586405
CAIRO, Feb 25 (MENA) – The Irrigation Ministry denied on Saturday a report published by a newspaper about injecting EGP 600 billion into the state treasury over adjusting conditions of 500,000 feddans on the Nile River. The paper alleged that the ....
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Jordan condemns Sinai terrorist attack
Date: 2017-02-25 15:47:22 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:60 - ID:6586385
AMMAN, Feb 25 (MENA) – Jordan denounced Saturday the attack that left seven Egyptian Coptic Christians dead after they were targeted by a terrorist group in Al Arish city, in the Sinai Province on Friday, Petra news reported. Jordan’s State ....
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Court acquits Zakaria Azmi of corruption charges
Date: 2017-02-25 15:46:02 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:59 - ID:6586381
CAIRO, Feb 25 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court decided Saturday to release former chief of presidential staff Zakaria Azmi of charges of illicit gains. Azmi, who served under the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak, was sentenced in 2012 to seven ....
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Interim Libyan cabinet urges UN to take firm stance towards Tripoli incidents
Date: 2017-02-25 15:44:51 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:58 - ID:6586401
TRIPOLI, Feb 25 (MENA) - The interim Libyan cabinet urged the United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take a firm stance towards incidents taking place in the Libyan capital Tripoli. In a statement issued on ....
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45 out of 103 Al Arish Christian families received in Ismailia - bishop
Date: 2017-02-25 15:43:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:6586373
ISMAILIA, Egypt, Feb 25 (MENA) - Bishop Seraphim of Ismailia on Saturday said 45 out of 103 Christian families fleeing the North Sinai city of Al Arish have arrived in Ismailia. Meeting Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali at the residence of ....
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Petroleum Minister says refineries improved within major plan to turn Egypt into regional energy hub
Date: 2017-02-25 14:19:14 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:56 - ID:6585613
ALEXANDRIA, Feb 25 (MENA) - Petroleum and Mineral Wealth Minister Tarek el Molla on Saturday said developing and raising the efficiency of refineries represents an important theme in the achievement of a national plan to turn Egypt into a regional ....
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Death toll from al Bab blasts rises to 80
Date: 2017-02-25 14:18:11 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:55 - ID:6585565
LONDON, Feb 25 (MENA) – The death toll, from the twin suicide attacks that rocked the Syrian city of al Bab, rose to nearly 80 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The first blast struck an opposition security post in ....
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Manpower Ministry agrees on points raised in State Council’s feedback on labor draft law: minister
Date: 2017-02-25 13:45:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:6585353
CAIRO, Feb 25 (MENA) - Minister of Manpower Mohammed Safan said on Saturday that the ministry agreed on a number of comments raised by the State Council about the proposed labor law draft which is scheduled to be discussed by the parliament. In ....
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Fugitive escaped from prison during Jan. 25th Revolution nabbed
Date: 2017-02-25 13:38:10 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:53 - ID:6585733
ALEXANDRIA, Feb 25 (MENA) - Security bodies here arrested a fugitive who escaped from Abu Zabel Prison during the January 25th Revolution. He was sentenced to three years in jail for dealing in drugs. All legal measures were taken in the ....