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Shokry receives phone call from Kerry
Date: 2014-07-15 13:08:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:828555
Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri has received a phone call from his U.S. counterpart John Kerry as part of consultations on the current crisis in the Palestinian territories. Spokesman at the Foreign Ministry Badr Abdel-Aati said minister Shokri ....
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Sisi assigns Awqaf min. to chair hajj mission
Date: 2014-07-15 12:53:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:828519
President Abdel Fatah El Sisi has assigned Awqaf Minister Mohamad Mokhtar Gomaa to chair the official hajj mission of the current year. The decision came in a presidential decree. ....
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Court postpones to August 20 trying Morsi and 14 of MB leaders in Ittihadiya palace case
Date: 2014-07-15 12:52:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:828516
Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday postponed to August 20 a session for trying ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 other defendants of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in the case of Ittihadiya Palace. They are facing charges of killing and ....
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Presidential decree to form higher election commisson
Date: 2014-07-15 12:31:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:828475
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree on Tuesday for the formation of a new Higher Election Commission to run the coming parliamentary elections. The president issued the decree after reviewing the amended constitution of 2014 and all ....
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Palestinian factions continue shelling Israeli cities, towns
Date: 2014-07-15 12:30:15 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:828472
Military wings of the Palestinian factions continued shelling Israeli sites, towns and cities on Tuesday, in response to the Israeli aggression on Gaza. The Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Hamas movement, said that ....
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Kerry welcomes Egypt's Gaza Strip ceasefire initiative
Date: 2014-07-15 11:54:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:828381
US Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed Tuesday the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire aimed at ending all acts of aggression on Gaza as of 6 a.m. (GMT) Tuesday. "The Egyptian ceasefire initiative provides an opportunity to end violence and restore ....
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Egypt concerned with Libyan issue
Date: 2014-07-15 11:51:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:828374
An Egyptian delegation headed by Assistant Foreign Minister for Neighboring Countries Ambassador Mohammad Badr al-Din participated Tuesday in a meeting for Libya's neighboring countries. During the meeting, the delegation asserted that Egypt ....
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Four arrested in Minya over violence charges
Date: 2014-07-15 11:44:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:828353
Minya security forces arrested four defendants implicated in robbing and attacking shops following the dispersal of Rabaa and Nahada sit-in camps. They were arrested during a security operation in the Upper Egypt governorate. A number of ....
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Transportation Min. Meets with JICA president
Date: 2014-07-15 11:40:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:828348
Transportation Minister Hani Dahi met Tuesday with the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to discuss ways of promoting cooperation between Egypt and Japan in the various transportation projects, especially the underground ....
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Germany welcomes conquering heroes home
Date: 2014-07-15 11:39:02 GMT - Germany - Sport - SN:23 - ID:828340
Scores of thousands of German football fans in Berlin have gathered since daybreak to welcome the return from Brazil of their World-Cup-winning team, the BBC reported. The flight bringing the triumphant players to the capital touched down from ....