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France to deliver arms to Iraqi Kurds
Date: 2014-08-13 15:11:14 GMT - France - International - SN:26 - ID:872485
France will supply arms to Iraq's Kurds "in the coming hours", French President Francois Hollande has announced. France has received approval from authorities in Baghdad for the decision, French media reports say. Kurdish forces have been ....
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Court sets Sept. 27 date for ruling in retrial of Mubarak, others
Date: 2014-08-13 14:16:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:872381
Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday set September 27 for issuing a ruling in the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, former interior minister Habib el-Adli and six of his aides. The retrial has started on May 11 last year. ....
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Mubarak denies at court all crimes against him
Date: 2014-08-13 14:13:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:872377
Former president Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday denied before court charges leveled against him of killing protesters in January 2011. He also denied, in his argument defending himself before Cairo Criminal Court, that he committed any corruption or ....
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Security forces on high alert over possible attacks by MB
Date: 2014-08-13 14:11:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:872374
The commander of Special Forces has asserted that the security forces are on high alert in anticipation of any violence acts on Thursday, the first anniversary of the dispersal of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) protest camps in August ....
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Interior Ministry raises security alert to utmost level
Date: 2014-08-13 13:36:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:872293
Interior Ministry Spokesman Major General Hani Abdel Latif said that the ministry has raised security alert to the utmost level in a bid to protect the public on Thursday amid threats to intimidate citizens on the occasion marking the first ....
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Plan set to secure new road network - traffic director
Date: 2014-08-13 13:02:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:872211
Director of the General Traffic Department Major General Mostafa Darwish said on Wednesday that his department has embarked on a plan to secure the new 3,000-kilometer road network, which President Abdel Fattah El Sisi vowed to establish as part of ....
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Street vendors to be relocated in Torgoman park within 10 days - Governor
Date: 2014-08-13 12:52:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:872192
Cairo Governor Galal el-Saeed said on Tuesday that street vendors would be relocated in Torgoman parking lot in downtown Cairo within 10 days. "The parking lot accommodates 1,750 peddlers who will be moved in two phases," the governor said. He ....
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Araby receives leader of Sudanese Ummah Party
Date: 2014-08-13 12:42:48 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:872172
Arab League (AL) chief Nabil El-Araby met on Wednesday with leader of the Sudanese Ummah Party Al-Sadek Al-Mahdy. The meeting took up the crises plaguing Sudan and the role of the AL on this score. In press statements after the meeting, Mahdy ....
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Former UN chief slams HRW Rabaa report
Date: 2014-08-13 12:39:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:872165
Former United Nations Secretary General Botros Botros Ghaly has criticized as biased the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the dispersal of the Rabaa el-Adaweya sit-in in August 2013. He added that the organization adopted the view point of ....
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Mubarak speaks at court to defend himself
Date: 2014-08-13 11:18:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:871952
Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday listened to a statement by former president Hosni Mubarak defending himself at court in his retrial over charges of killing protesters in January 2011 along with other charges of corruption and squandering public ....