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  • Police thwart MB plot to instigate labor sector

    Date: 2017-02-14 18:27:16 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:89 - ID:6524249

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) – Egypt's National Security Sector has thwarted a plot by members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to instigate the labor sector nationwide. The MB members planned to hold a meeting to prepare for instigating the ....

  • FM meets with African ambassadors in Egypt

    Date: 2017-02-14 18:16:11 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:88 - ID:6523773

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) – Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Tuesday with the African ambassadors to Egypt. The meeting came as part of the Foreign Ministry’s keenness on continued contacts with all diplomats in Cairo to discuss the bilateral ....

  • Parliament allows lawmaker Mourtada Mansour to appear before public prosecutor

    Date: 2017-02-14 18:10:51 GMT - Egypt - Parliament - SN:87 - ID:6524005

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) - The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a request from lawmaker Mourtada Mansour to allow him to be heard before the public prosecutor in eight libel and defamation lawsuits. The parliament took the decision after ....

  • Presidential decree establishing national council for payments

    Date: 2017-02-14 17:44:03 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:86 - ID:6524013

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Tuesday issued decree no. 89 for 2017 to establish the national council for payments. The president, according to the official gazette, will chair the council. The council will be tasked ....

  • Sisi stresses need to help Arab countries facing crises

    Date: 2017-02-14 17:26:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:85 - ID:6523761

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has said it is important to help Arab countries which are facing crises. Action should be taken to restore stability to those countries, Sisi said in a meeting with President of the Arab ....

  • PM says met with 50 nominees ahead of cabinet reshuffle

    Date: 2017-02-14 17:07:53 GMT - Egypt - Parliament - SN:84 - ID:6523757

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) – Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said on Tuesday that he met with more than 50 nominees before he decided on the names of the new ministers in the reshuffled cabinet. Asked by Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal about the refusal ....

  • Sisi to hold talks with UN chief Wednesday

    Date: 2017-02-14 16:46:22 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:83 - ID:6523941

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will receive on Wednesday United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The two sides are scheduled to hold talks, which will be followed by a joint press conference between Guterres and ....

  • IOM: Egypt launches new counter migrant smuggling project

    Date: 2017-02-14 16:36:36 GMT - Switzerland - Egypt - SN:82 - ID:6522861

    GENEVA, Feb 14 (MENA) - The Government of Egypt last week (09/02) launched the project Preventing and Responding to Irregular Migration in Egypt (PRIME) supported by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in cooperation with IOM. PRIME responds ....

  • 8 takfiris arrested, 7 narcotic farms destroyed in central Sinai

    Date: 2017-02-14 16:27:32 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:81 - ID:6523489

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) - The law enforcement forces of the Third Field Army continued their raids on terror hotbeds in Central Sinai, and specific operations on Mount Helal for the third consecutive week, a military statement said Tuesday. The ....

  • FM meets UNESCO director general

    Date: 2017-02-14 16:21:43 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:80 - ID:6523473

    CAIRO, Feb 14 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Tuesday with UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova to discuss means of boosting cooperation inside Africa, the Nile Basin countries in particular. The meeting also took up efforts to ....

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