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  • Growth rate rises to 3.7% - PM

    Growth rate rises to 3.7% - PM

    Date: 2014-10-16 12:17:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:1138041

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab stressed on Thursday that the growth rate in the final quarter of the past fiscal year reached 3.7 percent, up by 2.7% compared to the year before. Speaking in a conference titled "Towards an Arab-European Strategic ....

  • Ethiopia cares about common interests of all Nile-basin states -- minister

    Ethiopia cares about common interests of all Nile-basin states -- minister

    Date: 2014-10-16 11:47:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:1137713

    Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu stressed that his country cares about the common interests of all Nile-basin states and has no plans to harm any country. Addressing the second round of the tripartite committee - of Ethiopia, Egypt ....

  • FM: Egypt, EU share common goal in fighting terrorism

    FM: Egypt, EU share common goal in fighting terrorism

    Date: 2014-10-16 11:27:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:1137545

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri has said that Egypt and the European Union are sharing a common goal in curbing terrorism and achieving economic development. "We need to benefit from the EU expertise in these domains," Shoukri said at the ANSA-Al ....

  • Irrigation minister opens Ethiopia dam tripartite committee meeting

    Irrigation minister opens Ethiopia dam tripartite committee meeting

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:40:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:1136409

    Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi opened on Thursday the second meeting of the tripartite committee between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on Ethiopia's controversial Renaissance Dam. In his speech, the minister said the talks should be based on ....

  • Mortada Mansour to hold press conference at MENA Saturday

    Mortada Mansour to hold press conference at MENA Saturday

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:39:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:1136393

    The Middle East News Agency (MENA) will host a press conference on Saturday for Zamalek Club Chairman Mortada Mansour on his strategy for facing the clubs ultras, in general, and the Ultras White Knights Ultras (UWK), in particular. The press ....

  • Makeshift bomb defused near Tanta police station

    Makeshift bomb defused near Tanta police station

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:32:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:1136337

    Sappers defused on Thursday a makeshift bomb near a police traffic station but no casualties were reported. Gharbiya Security Chief Osama Bedair said the bomb consists of two carbonated beverage bottles attached to a cell phone and electric ....

  • Firefighters battle blaze at north Cairo power plant

    Firefighters battle blaze at north Cairo power plant

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:31:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:1136149

    Firefighters are battling a blaze at the North Cairo power plant on the Ismaeilia Canal road. "Sixteen fire engines are on the scene," said head of the Civil Protection Department Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Abdel Kader. The cause of the blaze and the ....

  • Sisi opens third phrase of medical complex in Kobri el-Qoba

    Sisi opens third phrase of medical complex in Kobri el-Qoba

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:13:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:1136117

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi opened on Thursday the third phase of the development works of the Armed Forces Medical Complex in Kobri el-Qoba. The president toured a number of new projects at the complex, including the new Kidney Disease ....

  • Govt to buy wheat from farmers for LE 420 per ardeb

    Govt to buy wheat from farmers for LE 420 per ardeb

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:11:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:1136081

    The Supply Ministry will buy wheat from farmers and local traders for 420 pounds per ardeb, Minister Khaled Hafni said Thursday. Wheat imports will start mid April in a bid to back farmers and provide necessary wheat for the new bread mechanism, ....

  • Petroleum min. visits key projects in Upper Egypt

    Petroleum min. visits key projects in Upper Egypt

    Date: 2014-10-16 09:10:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:1136065

    Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismaeil has visited the Upper Egyptian provinces of Assiut and Minya. The minister toured the ministry's key projects in the two provinces and held meetings with top officials. "Several projects will be launched in ....

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