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  • 11 injured in pile-up accident in Minya

    Date: 2014-01-04 16:42:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:98 - ID:479285

    MINYA, Egypt, Jan 4 (MENA) – Eleven people, including two students and a conscript, were injured on Saturday when three cars collided on the western highway near Bani Mazar town in Minya governorate. The wounded were admitted to Bani Mazar General ....

  • Security forces manage to convince protesters not to block railway in Nag Hammadi

    Date: 2014-01-04 16:41:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:97 - ID:479229

    QENA, Egypt, Jan 4 (MENA) - Security forces in Qena convinced scores of people to end their protest after they had tried to block the railway movement in Nag Hammadi city because of a three-day water cut off in Nagib village. An official source ....

  • Hurghada airport receives 10,000tourists on board 69 planes

    Date: 2014-01-04 16:26:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:96 - ID:479098

    HURGHADA, Egypt, Jan 4 (MENA) - Hurghada International Airport received on Saturday around 10,000 tourists on board of 69 planes including 12 domestic flights. Director of the airport Samy Abdel-Menim told MENA that the airport received 138 ....

  • Fact-finding committee prepares draft law to protect witnesses

    Date: 2014-01-04 16:08:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:95 - ID:479099

    CAIRO, Jan 4 (MENA) - Spokesman for fact-finding committee in incidents which followed June 30 revolution Omar Marawan said the committee started to prepare a draft law to protect witnesses. In statements to parliamentary reporters at the Shura ....

  • Ethiopia aims to finish dam in 3 years - says project manager

    Date: 2014-01-04 16:01:20 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:94 - ID:478929

    ADDIS ABABA, Jan 4 (MENA) - Project manager Semegnew Bekele described the mega-dam as a "flagship" project for Ethiopia, ultimately aimed at improving citizens' lives. Ethiopia hopes to finalize construction of its $4.7 billion hydroelectric dam ....

  • South Sudanese FM to visit Khartoum Monday

    Date: 2014-01-04 15:50:55 GMT - Sudan - World - SN:93 - ID:479039

    KHARTOUM, Jan 4 (MENA) - South Sudan's Foreign Minister Barnaba Benjamin said that he will visit Khartoum on Monday to meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to hand him a message from his counterpart Salva Kiir pertaining to the current crisis ....

  • Syrian opposition turns on al-Qaeda-affiliated Isis jihadists near Aleppo

    Date: 2014-01-04 15:50:19 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:92 - ID:479152

    LONDON, Jan 4 (MENA) - The Syrian opposition seemed to be overturned on al-Qaeda-affiliated Isis jihadists near Aleppo, The Guardian reported Saturday. The most serious clashes yet between the Syrian opposition and a prominent al-Qaeda group ....

  • 6 passengers held for bid to travel to Tripoli by fake Libyan visas

    Date: 2014-01-04 15:50:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:91 - ID:479142

    CAIRO, Jan 4 (MENA) - Cairo Airport authorities canceled on Saturday flights of six passengers who tried to travel to Tripoli using fake Libyan passports. The prosecution was notified to open a probe. (MENA) AA/RG ....

  • Russia expects Iranian president's visit in fall of 2014 - Russian diplomat

    Date: 2014-01-04 15:49:40 GMT - Iran - World - SN:90 - ID:479179

    TEHRAN, Jan 4 (MENA) - Moscow expects Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to visit Russia in the fall of 2014 to take part in the 4th meeting of the heads of the Caspian states in Astrakhan, Russian Ambassador to Iran Levan Dzhagarian said. "I would ....

  • 24 MB elements referred to prosecution in Qalubiya

    Date: 2014-01-04 15:49:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:89 - ID:479148

    BANHA, Egypt, Jan 4 (MENA) – Qalubiya security forces referred 24 members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to prosecution over charges of staging unlicensed protests on Friday, possessing bangers and the four-fingered yellow Rabaa ....

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