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  • Essam Sultan moved to heavily-guarded prison

    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 ....

  • Body of Egyptian amb. to Tanzania arrives at Cairo airport

    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. ....

  • Rafah crossing re-opened

    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 ....

  • Police: 15 die after blasts hit Somalia restaurant

    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 ....

  • Retrial of 11 Port Said massacre defendants postponed to Oct

    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 ....

  • Trial of Beltagy, Hegazy, 2 doctors postponed to Oct. 5

    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, ....

  • Egyptian army had no choice over move to topple Morsi - Blair

    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 ....

  • 9 MB supporters remanded in custody for 15 days over storming police stations

    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 ....

  • Army foils bombing operation of Suez-Ismailia railway line

    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. ....

  • Morsi remanded for 4 days pending probe into insulting judicial authority

    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 ....

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