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  • Tayyeb in UAE tomorrow to meet VP, receive Quran award

    Tayyeb in UAE tomorrow to meet VP, receive Quran award

    Date: 2014-07-15 17:41:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:52 - ID:829104

    Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Dr Ahmed el-Tayyeb will leave for the UAE Wednesday to meet with Vice President Mohamed bin Rashed and a number of senior UAE officials. Tayyeb will also attend a ceremony in which he will receive the Dubai International ....

  • 4 Brotherhoods arrested over making explosives in Fayyoum

    4 Brotherhoods arrested over making explosives in Fayyoum

    Date: 2014-07-15 17:40:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:829101

    Four supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood group were arrested Tuesday for implicating in making explosives in Fayyoum Governorate, southwest of Cairo. They were discovered after a blast occurred on Friday, July 4 in workshop, set for making ....

  • Pope Tawadros leaves for Austria

    Pope Tawadros leaves for Austria

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:32:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:829047

    Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese has left for Austria on a therapeutic trip. The pontiff is suffering from back pain and will undergo physiotherapy there. This is the pope's second visit to Austria within ....

  • Awqaf minister thanks Sisi for appointment on top of pilgrimage mission

    Awqaf minister thanks Sisi for appointment on top of pilgrimage mission

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:27:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:829035

    Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa has thanked President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi for appointing him head of the pilgrimage mission for the Hijra year 1435. Gomaa, in a statement Tuesday, vowed to exert utmost effort to serve Egyptian ....

  • 15 MBs get 7 years in jail

    15 MBs get 7 years in jail

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:09:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:828992

    Zagazig Criminal Court sentenced Tuesday former MP Farid Ismail and 14 other members of the terrorist Muslim brotherhood group to seven years rigorous imprisonment over acts of violence. Among the convicts are Sharqiya former deputy governor ....

  • Erdoğan claims Israel’s mentality ‘no different from Hitler’

    Erdoğan claims Israel’s mentality ‘no different from Hitler’

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:08:41 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:47 - ID:828991

    Israel’s approach to the Palestinians is no different to the mentality of Adolf Hitler, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, accusing Israel of committing “systematic atrocity and state terror” against the Palestinians since 1948, , ....

  • Liberman: Israel must 'go all the way' in Gaza

    Liberman: Israel must 'go all the way' in Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:07:57 GMT - Israel - International - SN:46 - ID:828990

    Israeli Foreign Minister said on Tuesday that Operation Protective Edge should end with forces controlling all of Gaza; says ceasefire only allows Hamas to make more rockets. Israel should "go all the way in Gaza," meaning it should reoccupy ....

  • Taliban rejects involvement in Paktika attack that left 89 dead

    Taliban rejects involvement in Paktika attack that left 89 dead

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:06:53 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:45 - ID:828989

    The Taliban group in Afghanistan rejected involvement behind the deadly suicide attack in eastern Paktika province of Afghanistan which left 89 civilians dead, local media reported. Taliban group spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the Taliban ....

  • FM to meet AU envoy for Libya

    FM to meet AU envoy for Libya

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:05:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:828985

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri will meet African Union (AU) Special Envoy for Libya Dileita Mohamed Dileita, on Wednesday. The meeting is expected to tackle the deteriorating security situation in Libya and its implications on the neighboring ....

  • PM meets chairman of Trafigura

    PM meets chairman of Trafigura

    Date: 2014-07-15 16:04:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:43 - ID:828983

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab met Tuesday with board chairman of Trafigura, an international company specialized in fuel trading. Mahlab said that steps taken toward achieving economic reform, legislative amendments and security are meant to ....

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