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Azhar Imam greets Egyptians on New Year
Date: 2013-12-31 21:38:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:163 - ID:472594
CAIRO, Dec 31 (MENA) - Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyeb greeted the Egyptian people on the New Year. The Grand Imam is scheduled to visit the St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasseya on Saturday to greet Pope of Alexandria and ....
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Jamaah Islamiyah member arrested in Qena
Date: 2013-12-31 21:34:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:162 - ID:472598
QENA, Dec 31 (MENA) - Security forces in Qena arrested on Tuesday a member of the so called "National Alliance to Support Legitimacy" over his involvement in inciting violence. The Jamaah Islamiyah suspect is charged with inciting violence and ....
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Gunmen blast gas pipeline in Sinai
Date: 2013-12-31 21:29:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:161 - ID:472595
EL-ARISH, Dec 31 (MENA) – Unidentified assailants exploded a natural gas pipeline in Sinai, security sources said on Tuesday. The attack took place in the central part of Sinai against a pipeline that carries natural gas to the industrial ....
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Khartoum sends aid to Juba, evacuates 200 Sudanese nationals
Date: 2013-12-31 21:13:58 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:160 - ID:472585
KHARTOUM, Dec 31 (MENA) – Sudan sent a plane on Tuesday carrying aid to Juba and evacuated more than 200 Sudanese nationals, a Sudanese official said. About forty tons of foods and medical supplies arrived in Juba on board a Sudanese plane ....
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Border tunnels, house in Rafah destroyed
Date: 2013-12-31 21:10:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:159 - ID:472566
EL-ARISH, Dec 31 (MENA) - Four tunnels and a house used in smuggling have been demolished during a wide-scale security campaign in the border city of Rafah, a security source said Tuesday. Security campaigns are ongoing on the border city to stop ....
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Morsi-era presidential spokesman Yasser Ali arrested
Date: 2013-12-31 21:00:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:158 - ID:472571
CAIRO, Dec 31 (MENA) - Security forces arrested Yassir Ali, a terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leader and former presidential spokesman of Mohamed Morsi. Ali was hiding in an apartment in El-Mokattam neighborhood in Cairo when he was captured, a ....
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GIS Al-Tur bureau chief dies in road accident – official
Date: 2013-12-31 20:57:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:157 - ID:472584
AL-TUR, Dec 31 (MENA) – The head of General Intelligence Service (GIS) office in Al-Tur, Sinai, died Tuesday in a car crash, an security source said. His car banged into a pickup car coming in the opposite direction, 30 km away from Al-Tur, on ....
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Sudan keen on coop with S. Sudan: Bashir
Date: 2013-12-31 20:51:28 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:156 - ID:472544
KHARTOUM, Dec 31 (MENA) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has stressed Sudan's keenness on cooperation agreements with South Sudan. In his speech on Tuesday remarking the 58th anniversary of Sudan's independence, Bashir said that his country ....
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Morsi supporters stage protest in Qena
Date: 2013-12-31 20:29:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:155 - ID:472568
QENA, Dec 31 (MENA) – Dozens of members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) staged a protest Tuesday in Qena calling for the reinstatement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the interim government's ....
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MB, FJP member disavows membership in terrorist group
Date: 2013-12-31 20:26:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:154 - ID:472512
BANHA, Dec 31 (MENA) – A member of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party, rendered his resignation Tuesday from the terrorist group in Toukh, Qalubiya. Lottfi Fathy, 50, reported to his nearby ....