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Egypt/Riot Interior Ministry: Police are facing terrorist groups seeking to spread chaos in homeland
Date: 2013-08-14 16:43:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:241534
The Egyptian police are standing up to terrorist groups who are seeking to create chaos in the homeland, said the Interior Ministry in a press release on Wednesday. It added that the policemen are bravely fighting these terrorist groups and ....
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Foreign Ministry forms working group to follow up foreign reactions over internal situation
Date: 2013-08-14 16:40:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:241526
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday has formed a working group of senior officials to follow up foreign reactions over the current political situation in Egypt. According to the ministry's official spokesman, the group, which was set up ....
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Decision to disperse MB sit-ins was "crucial" - Sawiris
Date: 2013-08-14 16:07:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:35 - ID:241462
Founder of Free Egyptians Party and businessman tycoon Naguib Sawiris said that the country's decision to disperse the sit-ins of Muslim Brotherhood was necessary. He further said that the two sit-ins staged by supporters of deposed president ....
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State of emergency declared in Egypt
Date: 2013-08-14 16:04:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:241446
Interim President Adly Mansour on Wednesday declared a state of emergency nationwide in Egypt for one month as of 4:00pm. A presidential statement indicated that the measure comes in light of acts of riot and sabotage in the country that are ....
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219 MB members arrested in Giza -- Security source
Date: 2013-08-14 15:24:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:241362
As many as 219 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group have so far been arrested in Giza, a high-profile security source said on Wednesday. Some of them had three Grinov guns, the source told MENA, adding that police are currently sorting out ....
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One Morsi loyalist killed while attempting to storm Assiut police station
Date: 2013-08-14 14:27:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:241223
One supporter of deposed president Mohamed Morsi was killed while trying, among others, to storm a police station in Assiut, Upper Egypt, on Wednesday. Security forces fired birdshots and tear gas canisters to drive them away from the ....
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Security tightened at Cairo airport
Date: 2013-08-14 14:25:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:241213
Security forces reinforced their presence at Cairo airport on Wednesday, tightening security on all entrances and exits to the airport in anticipation of any angry reaction following the breakup of Rabaa Adaweya and Nahda sit-in camps. More ....
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Tamarod calls for vigilantes to protect churches
Date: 2013-08-14 14:25:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:241212
The Tamarod (Rebel) Movement has called on Muslim and Christian youth to form popular committees to protect churches. The Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to foment sectarian tension, the movement charged. This is their last card after the ....
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Morsi loyalists cut off road to Moustafa Mahmoud Square in Mohandeseen
Date: 2013-08-14 14:18:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:241090
Loyalists of deposed president Mohamed Morsi gathered in front of Moustafa Mahmoud Mosque in the district of Mohandeseen, broke the pavement's stones and threw them at passing vehicles. They also set tyres ablaze to block the road. They ....
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Number of Rabaa, Nahda wounded rises to 26 - Health
Date: 2013-08-14 14:13:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:240819
The number of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi who were wounded while security forces were clearing out their protest camps at Nahda and Rabaa Adaweya squares rose to 26, Dr Khaled Khattib, head of the central administration of critical ....