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  • State Council's club rejects suggestions to reduce the body's powers

    State Council's club rejects suggestions to reduce the body's powers

    Date: 2013-10-20 15:11:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:345909

    The State Council's Judges Club sent on Sunday a memo to the constitution committee, expressing full rejection of attempts to curtail the council's jurisdiction. Stripping the council of the power to rule in cases connected with public contracts ....

  • Cairo-Lower Egypt train traffic resumes as of Tuesday

    Cairo-Lower Egypt train traffic resumes as of Tuesday

    Date: 2013-10-20 14:25:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:345805

    The train movement between Cairo and Lower Egypt will return back to normal as of Tuesday after its suspension since August, Transport Minister Ibrahim el-Demery announced Sunday. The Cairo-Lower Egypt train movement has been suspended since ....

  • Security forces did not raid Azhar campus - source

    Security forces did not raid Azhar campus - source

    Date: 2013-10-20 14:19:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:345787

    A security source denied news broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV that security forces stormed the campus of Al-Azhar University on Sunday. The Interior Ministry urges Al-Azhar University students to commit to peaceful expression of opinion and stay away ....

  • Foreign ministry contacts Libyan side on Egyptians held in Ajdabiya

    Foreign ministry contacts Libyan side on Egyptians held in Ajdabiya

    Date: 2013-10-20 13:39:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:345718

    The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that it is continuously contacting the Libyan side to guarantee the safety of a number of Egyptian drivers who were held in Libya on Thursday. The Egyptian embassy in Tripoli and the general consulate ....

  • Salloum crossing operating on both sides - official

    Salloum crossing operating on both sides - official

    Date: 2013-10-20 13:05:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:345646

    Salloum border crossing is operating normally on both sides however, Egyptian passengers are not allowed to transit the terminal for security reasons in conformity with a decision taking by the National Security Bureau Chief, an official source at ....

  • Egypt FM arrives in Uganda - 1st leg of African tour

    Egypt FM arrives in Uganda - 1st leg of African tour

    Date: 2013-10-20 12:32:04 GMT - Uganda - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:345566

    Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy arrived Uganda Sunday, leading a ministerial delegation, on the first leg of an African tour that will take him later to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The accompanying delegation includes ....

  • Protests by MB's Azhar students intensify

    Protests by MB's Azhar students intensify

    Date: 2013-10-20 12:11:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:345508

    The tempo of protests by Azhar students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood grew more intense on Sunday inside and outside campus. A group of the protesting students reportedly left the campus and tried to block the road to disrupt traffic near ....

  • FM calls for implementing Egypt's initiative on WMDFZ in Middle East

    FM calls for implementing Egypt's initiative on WMDFZ in Middle East

    Date: 2013-10-20 11:52:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:345444

    Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi called for exerting more strenuous efforts to put into effect Egypt's initiative on Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (WMDFZ) in the Middle East. This came in letters sent to the Arab League and UN secretaries, ....

  • 3 soldiers wounded in attack on military commuter buses in Sehikh Zweid

    3 soldiers wounded in attack on military commuter buses in Sehikh Zweid

    Date: 2013-10-20 11:36:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:345419

    Three soldiers were wounded Sunday in an armed attack on military commuter buses in Sheikh Zweid on the Arish-Rafah highway. The unidentified gunmen ambushed the buses on the road and sprayed them with bullets, leaving the driver of one of them ....

  • Beblawy, Ghali review roadmap

    Beblawy, Ghali review roadmap

    Date: 2013-10-20 11:30:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:345412

    Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy conferred here on Sunday with former UN secretary general and honorary chairman of the National Council for Human Rights Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the latest developments in Egypt and steps taken as part of the roadmap ....

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