Egypt
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Essam Sultan moved to heavily-guarded prison
Date: 2013-09-07 13:52:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:277677
Detained Laywer Essam Sultan has been transferred to the highly-guarded Al-Aqrab Prison, south of Cairo, a security source at the Prisons Sector said. In exclusive statements to MENA, the source said that Sultan was transferred after assistant ....
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Body of Egyptian amb. to Tanzania arrives at Cairo airport
Date: 2013-09-07 12:46:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:277552
The body of Egypt's Ambassador to Tanzania Ahmed Khalaf arrived on board an Egyptian plane, coming from Dar es Salaam, on Saturday. The ambassador breathed his last after he fell from the eighth floor in a residential area. ....
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Rafah crossing re-opened
Date: 2013-09-07 12:42:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:277545
Rafah border crossing was reopened on Saturday for traffic from both sides after it was shut down during the weekend, a security source in the terminal said. Since the adoption of a new operational mechanism on May 28, 2011, the number of ....
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Police: 15 die after blasts hit Somalia restaurant
Date: 2013-09-07 12:35:00 GMT - Somalia - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:277536
Somali militants attacked a restaurant near Mogadishu's seat of government for the second time in less than a year on Saturday, detonating two large bombs that killed at least 15 people and wounded nearly two dozen, an official said. The force of ....
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Retrial of 11 Port Said massacre defendants postponed to Oct
Date: 2013-09-07 12:29:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:277533
Port Said Criminal Court postponed to October the retrial of 11 defendants who were formerly handed death sentences in absentia for their role in the Port Said massacre. The postponement came due to the absence of the defendants.Port Said ....
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Trial of Beltagy, Hegazy, 2 doctors postponed to Oct. 5
Date: 2013-09-07 11:50:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:277454
North Cairo Criminal Court decided to postpone the trial of two Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leading figures and two doctors to October 5. Mohamed el-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy, and two doctors, identified as Mohamed Ali el-Zanati and Abdel-Azim Ibrahim, ....
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Egyptian army had no choice over move to topple Morsi - Blair
Date: 2013-09-07 11:49:46 GMT - Japan - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:277450
Former British prime minister Tony Blair affirmed that he totally supports the decision taken by the Egyptian Armed Forces to protect their country. In a speech he delivered before the Global opinion leaders summits, which were held here, Blair ....
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9 MB supporters remanded in custody for 15 days over storming police stations
Date: 2013-09-07 11:48:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:277445
Prosecution in Qalyubia decided to detain nine supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group for 15 days pending investigations. They face charges of burning and storming police stations, a matter which injured four police officers. They ....
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Army foils bombing operation of Suez-Ismailia railway line
Date: 2013-09-07 11:43:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:277435
Military and police troops in Suez Saturday combed the railway line between Suez and Ismailia after the army foiled an attempt to blow it up. Explosives experts defused bombs that had been placed along the railway between the two Canal cities. ....
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Morsi remanded for 4 days pending probe into insulting judicial authority
Date: 2013-09-07 11:39:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:277423
Ousted president Mohamed Morsi has been remanded in custody for four days pending a probe into charges of insulting the judicial authority. Investigating judge Tharwat Hammad and counselors Ayman Farahat and Baher Bahaa interrogated Morsi inside ....