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  • Engineering students disrupt mid-term exams at Zagazig University

    Date: 2013-11-17 14:11:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:85 - ID:391630

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Nov 17 (MENA) – A number of students at the Faculty of Engineering in Zagazig University closed the gates of the campus for the second day on Sunday, announcing that they will be staging a sit-in, preventing their colleagues from ....

  • Bahraini Interior and Justice Ministers arrive in Cairo

    Date: 2013-11-17 14:05:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:84 - ID:391460

    CAIRO, Egypt, Nov 17 (MENA) - Bahrain's Minister of Interior Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa arrived in Cairo on Sunday accompanied by Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Khaled bin Ali Al Khalifa on a private flight. They will meet some ....

  • Retrial of Ibrahim Suleiman in SODIC case delayed till Jan. 21

    Date: 2013-11-17 14:02:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:83 - ID:391961

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned its ruling in the retrial of former housing minister Ibrahim Suleiman and other former officials at New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA) to January 21. The defendants are facing charges of ....

  • Court adjourns ex-minister Shafiq corruption trial till Wednesday

    Date: 2013-11-17 14:01:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:82 - ID:391993

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned till Wednesday the "pilots housing" corruption case in which former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq is accused, with 10 others, of embezzling public funds. The postponement came in order to ....

  • Constitutional panel did not receive until now agreement of judicial authorities - Salmawy

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:59:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:81 - ID:391910

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - Spokesman of the 50-member panel tasked with drawing up a new constitution Mohmed Salmawy said that the panel did not receive until now any official statement regarding a final approval from the judicial authorities on its ....

  • Russian plane loaded with medical aid arrives to Syria

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:57:24 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:391121

    MOSCOW, Nov 17 (MENA) - A Russian plane laden with medical aid supplies landed in Syria's Latakia Airport, RIA Novosti reported Sunday. Head of the health department accompanied by dozens of soldiers received the plane to unload the 40-ton aid ....

  • Egypt away from external debt -- minister

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:56:09 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:79 - ID:391911

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Cooperation Zeyyad Bahaaddin said on Sunday that Egypt will not encounter the risk of external debt, noting that the ministry's agreements differ from the commercial ones. ....

  • Head of Egypt's feminist union welcomes women's representation in local councils

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:54:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:78 - ID:391912

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - Egypt's Feminist Union, led by Dr Hoda Badran, welcomed the voting of the constitutional panel regarding women's representation in the local councils by 25 percent. Badran, meanwhile, urged officials to implement the same ....

  • Militia attack on Tripoli protesters raises fear of fresh conflict in Libya -- newspaper

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:53:45 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:77 - ID:391764

    LONDON, Nov 17 (MENA) – The Libyan capital was braced for fresh violence on Saturday night after a day in which at least 37 were killed and more than 400 wounded in a confrontation outside a militia headquarters, according to a Guardian report on ....

  • Kuwaiti Emir meets with Saudi Minister of State

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:48:44 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:76 - ID:391730

    KUWAIT, Nov 17 (MENA) – Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Saudi Minister of State and Council of Ministers' member Dr Musaad Bin Mohammad Al-Aiban in Bayan Palace on Sunday. According to the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA), ....

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