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19 parliament committees formed to review previous laws
Date: 2016-01-12 07:30:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:4096313
The House of Representatives agreed on Monday to form 19 subcommittees under Speaker Ali Abdel Aal to discuss the decree laws that had been issued in the absence of the parliament. The subcommittees should end their task on Saturday. Earlier ....
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2 bodies, 3 injured retrieved, 7 missing in Sharqia collapsed building
Date: 2016-01-12 07:22:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4096273
Two bodies of 15-year-old and 7-year-old sisters were recovered from the six-storey building which collapsed in Sharqia's town of Minya El Qamh, the governorate's Security Chief, Major General Hassan Seif, said Monday night. Also, three injured ....
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Parliament secretary: No fire in parliament building, short circuit prompted fire sirens to ring
Date: 2016-01-11 11:11:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:4090933
Secretary of the House of Representatives Counselor Ahmed Saad Eldin on Monday denied reports that a fire broke out in the parliament building, noting that such reports are groundless. In statements to MENA, Saad Eldin said a limited short ....
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Interior Minister honors some police troops
Date: 2016-01-11 09:29:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:4090021
Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar Monday honored troops that foiled a terrorist attack on a hotel in the Red Sea city of Hurghada on Friday. The troops were able to arrest the attackers. The minister also honored Col. Yasser Hassan Asr of ....
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Fire inside Azhar University cafeteria controlled
Date: 2016-01-11 08:11:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:4089373
Civil defense troops were able to put out a fire that erupted inside a cafeteria at Al Azhar University early Monday. The fire was caused by a short circuit and resulted in the explosion of a gas cylinder inside the cafeteria. No word of ....
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Sherif named deputy speaker of Egyptian parliament
Date: 2016-01-11 08:08:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4089361
MP el Sayyed Mahmoud el Sherif has been elected deputy speaker of parliament for five years. Aly Abdel Aal, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, said that a runoff vote will be held between MPs Alaa Eddin Abdel Men'em and Seliman Wahdan ....
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FM: Egypt's foreign policy to focus on entrenching regional role in 2016
Date: 2016-01-10 09:56:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:4083749
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry underlined that Egypt's foreign policy will focus in 2016 on backing stability in the country, entrenching Egypt's regional role and combating terror. Addressing a seminar late Saturday at the Egyptian Association ....
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Beheira governor orders evacuation of cracked house from explosion of storage cooler
Date: 2016-01-10 08:42:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:4083269
Beheira Governor Mohammad Sultan has ordered the evacuation of a house that was cracked by the explosion of a fruit storage cooler in Mahmoudiya city, said Media Spokesman of Beheira Governorate Wahdan el Sayyed. The governor is following up the ....
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Traffic at Cairo airport not affected by power failure in control tower - official
Date: 2016-01-10 07:59:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:4082993
A technical failure that caused power outage at Cairo Airport control tower on Saturday was fixed in two hours, the head of the National Air Navigation Services Company (NANSC) said. In a NANSC statement on Sunday, Ehab Mohy said traffic at the ....
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Parliament holds its first procedural session
Date: 2016-01-10 07:57:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4082981
The parliament started on Sunday its procedural session with all lawmakers invited to attend. All lawmakers will be sworn in to start performing their duties as MPs. ....
