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  • E-passports center issues 3.000 passports during one day

    E-passports center issues 3.000 passports during one day

    Date: 2015-06-01 14:27:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:2708777

    Foreign Ministry Spokesman Badr Abdel Aatti said that the biometric passports center, affiliated to the ministry, issued 3,000 passports in one day which is considered four times more than the normal issuance rates. In a statement issued on ....

  • Culture minister opens forum on African culture

    Culture minister opens forum on African culture

    Date: 2015-06-01 14:26:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:2708773

    Culture Minister Abdel-Wahed El-Nabawi opened on Monday a symposium on African culture in Cairo. The minister called for establishing a body for boosting cultural ties and cooperation between African nations. He said the ministry floated a ....

  • PM Mahlab visits one of most impoverished villages in Egypt

    PM Mahlab visits one of most impoverished villages in Egypt

    Date: 2015-06-01 12:46:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:2707749

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Monday visited Assiut's Menqabad, one of the poorest villages in the country, promising to meet their demands in better water and education services. The prime minister said three million pounds were earmarked to ....

  • Health care program for social pensioners now applicable in Assiut

    Health care program for social pensioners now applicable in Assiut

    Date: 2015-06-01 11:39:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:2706961

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab visited on Monday a health unit at an Assiut village to witness the launching a health care program for social pension beneficiaries totaling 123,511. The program services, that comes as part of the new medical ....

  • Egypt takes part in meeting of PAM political committee

    Egypt takes part in meeting of PAM political committee

    Date: 2015-06-01 11:14:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:2706289

    Egypt took part in a meeting of the political committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) that was recently held in the Moroccan capital. A statement by the Foreign Ministry said Monday the meeting focused on a number of ....

  • Mahlab inaugurates Assiut power station

    Mahlab inaugurates Assiut power station

    Date: 2015-06-01 11:12:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:2706837

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab inaugurated on Monday Assiut Power Plant after three units went operational yesterday. Ministers of electricity, housing, health, youth and sports, solidarity, transport and irrigation along with Assiut Governor ....

  • Defense minister approves new batches of students of military academies, institutes

    Defense minister approves new batches of students of military academies, institutes

    Date: 2015-06-01 11:10:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:2706809

    Minister of Defense General Sedqi Sobhi on Monday agreed to accept new batches of students wishing to join military academies and institutes. Applicants should be holders of Thanaweya Amma degree or its Azhari equivalents or having a technical ....

  • No national reconciliation before accountability – min.

    No national reconciliation before accountability – min.

    Date: 2015-06-01 11:09:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:2706801

    National reconciliation cannot be achieved before accountability and can only happen under the people’s consensus, Transitional Justice Minister Ibrahim el Henedi said. During a press conference Monday, Henedi said he does not mind national ....

  • 22 defendants sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment on violence charges

    22 defendants sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment on violence charges

    Date: 2015-06-01 11:06:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:2706769

    Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Monday 22 defendants to 10 years rigorous imprisonment and fined them 20,000 pounds on charges of violence. The court also placed them under state parole supervision for an additional five years. Seven other ....

  • Housing Ministry agrees to increase lot coverage of public schools

    Housing Ministry agrees to increase lot coverage of public schools

    Date: 2015-06-01 10:18:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:2706269

    Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouli had agreed to increase the maximum lot coverage of public schools from 30 to 35%, Education Minister Moheb el Rafei said. The decision was taken after the education minister had sent a letter to the housing ....

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