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  • Border guards arrest 3 Palestinians while escaping through tunnel

    Border guards arrest 3 Palestinians while escaping through tunnel

    Date: 2013-08-13 15:34:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:239614

    Border guards in northeastern Egypt have arrested three Palestinians as they attempted to escape through a tunnel. The Second Field Army, meanwhile, seized a car full of 6,880 kilograms of the bango plant in Qantara Sharq. The Third Field Army ....

  • FM phones his Ugandan counterpart

    FM phones his Ugandan counterpart

    Date: 2013-08-13 15:29:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:239605

    Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy made a telephone call with Uganda's Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa on Tuesday. The contact came within the framework of Fahmy's contacts with his counterparts to discuss the latest developments in Egypt and ....

  • Governors to take oath soon

    Governors to take oath soon

    Date: 2013-08-13 14:09:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:239455

    Twenty-six governors will take an oath before interim president Adly Mansour soon, MENA learned Tuesday. Galal el-Saied and Tareq el-Mahdi have been appointed as governors of Cairo and Alexandria respectively. A governor of the Red Sea ....

  • Morsi's supporters stage rallies outside ministries of justice, higher education, Awqaf

    Morsi's supporters stage rallies outside ministries of justice, higher education, Awqaf

    Date: 2013-08-13 14:00:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:239434

    Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi staged rallies Tuesday outside the headquarters of the ministries of justice, higher education and Awqaf. They carried pictures of the former president and banners calling for his reinstatement. ....

  • Antiquities ministry's budget deficit widening: Minister

    Antiquities ministry's budget deficit widening: Minister

    Date: 2013-08-13 13:57:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:239423

    Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim held an urgent meeting with senior officials at the ministry to find ways to narrow the budget deficit of 1.3 billion pounds. The ministry has to pay off 1.3 billion pounds worth of debts to companies, he ....

  • Court withdraws from retrial of Ahmed Ezz on money laundering charges

    Court withdraws from retrial of Ahmed Ezz on money laundering charges

    Date: 2013-08-13 13:53:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:239416

    Cairo Criminal Court has withdrawn from retrying businessman Ahmed Ezz on charges of laundering some 6.5 billion pounds of public funds that he had illegally attained. The court said its decision was based on the fact that its chief justice ....

  • Foreign ministry denies detention of Egyptian ship crew in Cote d'Ivoire

    Foreign ministry denies detention of Egyptian ship crew in Cote d'Ivoire

    Date: 2013-08-13 09:18:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:238955

    Egyptian Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire Osama Saeed denied on Monday reports alleging that Ivorian authorities detained an Egyptian ship with 19 people on board. The Egyptian embassy in Abidjan contacted the crew of the ship and made sure that ....

  • Cabinet denies appointing Mansour's daughter in premier office

    Cabinet denies appointing Mansour's daughter in premier office

    Date: 2013-08-13 09:10:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:238938

    Egypt's cabinet media advisor Sherief Shawqy has denied reports about appointing the daughter of Interim President Adli Mansour in the technical office of the Prime Minister with a salary up to 35,000 pounds per month. Such reports are ....

  • Nour Party ready to participate in constitution-amending committee under some preconditons

    Nour Party ready to participate in constitution-amending committee under some preconditons

    Date: 2013-08-13 09:02:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:238924

    The Salafist Nour Party said Monday it is willing to participate in the 50-member constitution-amending committee, but under some preconditions. The Islamist party said the constitution amending process should be an inclusive one. It ....

  • More troops deployed in North Sinai

    More troops deployed in North Sinai

    Date: 2013-08-13 08:48:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:238906

    More troops have been deployed in North Sinai to back security forces in eastern Arish in combing and attacking the terrorists' hotbeds in the governorate. As many as seven developed armored vehicles were deployed outside Sheikh Zuwaid police ....

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