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  • Cabinet convenes to discuss political, economic files

    Cabinet convenes to discuss political, economic files

    Date: 2015-07-29 14:42:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:3065269

    The Cabinet held a meeting on Wednesday under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to discuss political, economic and security files and ways of securing the Egyptian street and taking the necessary measures to confront terrorism. The meeting discussed ....

  • Interior minister delivers speech at graduation of Police Academy students

    Interior minister delivers speech at graduation of Police Academy students

    Date: 2015-07-29 12:52:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:3064265

    Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar has delivered a speech in the graduation ceremony of a new batch of Police Academy. Addressing the audience, who attended the ceremony on Wednesday, Abdel Ghaffar first welcomed President Abdel Fattah El ....

  • Azhar deplores terrorist attack on Niger Embassy in Cairo

    Azhar deplores terrorist attack on Niger Embassy in Cairo

    Date: 2015-07-29 12:48:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:3064237

    Al Azhar has strongly condemned an attack on the Niger Embassy in Cairo, which left one conscript dead and two others injured. In a statement on Wednesday, Al Azhar said that such terrorist acts are increasing nowadays due to Egypt's success in ....

  • US official: New Suez Canal to reduce oil prices

    US official: New Suez Canal to reduce oil prices

    Date: 2015-07-29 07:35:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:3061581

    Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs leading the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) at the US Department of State Amos J Hochstein underlined the importance of the new Suez Canal, noting that it would contribute to reducing ....

  • Egypt on way to eliminate Hepatitis C virus - min.

    Egypt on way to eliminate Hepatitis C virus - min.

    Date: 2015-07-29 07:34:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:3061553

    Egypt on its way to eliminate the Hepatitis C virus, Health Minister Adel Adawy said Tuesday. Adawy cited the progress Egypt achieved in endemic diseases such as Tuberculosis, Malaria, and poliomyelitis. The minister said the ratio of ....

  • Hani Shaker elected chief of musicians syndicate

    Hani Shaker elected chief of musicians syndicate

    Date: 2015-07-29 07:25:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:3061477

    Singer Hani Shaker Tuesday was elected chief of musicians syndicate. Shaker won 1,066 votes, defeating outgoing chief Mostafa Kamel, who got 928 votes and Mounir el Wessemi who got 129 votes. Also, Alaa Salama, Khaled Bayoumi, Mansour Hindi, ....

  • One policeman killed, 2 wounded in Niger Embassy attack

    One policeman killed, 2 wounded in Niger Embassy attack

    Date: 2015-07-29 06:48:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:3061273

    One conscript was killed while two others were injured in a fire attack at Niger Embassy in Giza early Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The statement said gunmen driving a private car opened fire at security personnel ....

  • Court upholds 15-year jail sentence against Zeina killers

    Court upholds 15-year jail sentence against Zeina killers

    Date: 2015-07-29 06:47:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:3061261

    The Juvenile Criminal Court upheld the 15-year jail sentence handed down against the two killers of a five-year-old girl in Port Said. Mahmoud Kasper, 17 and Alaa Abu Zeid, 16, are charged with kidnapping, rapping and killing the girl identified ....

  • Presidential decree to annul amendments to constitutional court law

    Presidential decree to annul amendments to constitutional court law

    Date: 2015-07-28 18:25:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:3060089

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has issued a decree to annul amendments to a number of articles of a law on the Supreme Constitutional Court. The amendments had been introduced following a 2014 presidential decree to that effect. The decree ....

  • Tayyeb: Terrorist organizations do not represent Islam

    Tayyeb: Terrorist organizations do not represent Islam

    Date: 2015-07-28 17:03:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:3059633

    Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr Ahmed el Tayyeb has stressed that the terrorist Daesh group and all other terrorist organizations do not represent Islam and have nothing to do with it, even if they claim so. Al Azhar plays an educational and cultural ....

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