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  • Govt stepping toward economic reform - PM

    Govt stepping toward economic reform - PM

    Date: 2014-07-03 15:48:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:810316

    The government has started steps to achieve economic reform and fix the defects in the economy, especially in the oil subsidy system, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said. During a meeting with the largest food producers and suppliers, Mahlab said ....

  • 157 MB members arrested during protests in several governorates

    157 MB members arrested during protests in several governorates

    Date: 2014-07-03 15:48:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:810313

    As many as 175 members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group were arrested in nine governroates during protests held on the first anniversary of the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi, said an official of the Interior Ministry's media ....

  • Culture minister meets Arab Investors Union

    Culture minister meets Arab Investors Union

    Date: 2014-07-03 13:13:54 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:19 - ID:809933

    Culture Minister Gaber el-Asfour met with the Arab Investors Union and the Industrial Investors Syndicate. During the meeting, it was agreed that the syndicate and the union will donate a 500-square-meter plot of land to establish ....

  • Min announces gradual lifting of energy subsidy within 5 years

    Min announces gradual lifting of energy subsidy within 5 years

    Date: 2014-07-03 12:38:11 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:18 - ID:809835

    Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker announced on Thursday that the energy subsidy will be lifted gradually within five years without affecting the low-income bracket. The middle-class citizens will get electricity at its ....

  • FM meets AL chief

    FM meets AL chief

    Date: 2014-07-03 12:27:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:809811

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri received on Thursday Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Nabil El Arabi at his ministry's headquarters. This visit is the first of its kind since Shokri assumed office earlier in June, El Arabi said. He added that ....

  • Palestinian unity government neglects GS -- Gazan official

    Palestinian unity government neglects GS -- Gazan official

    Date: 2014-07-03 12:21:54 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:809790

    The Palestinian national unity government under Rami Hamdallah neglects its duties towards the Gaza Strip and does nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Gazans due to the suffocating Israeli blockade and the daily Israeli hostilities, a Gazan ....

  • Lavrov calls for stepped up international efforts to fight terrorism, extremism in Middle East

    Lavrov calls for stepped up international efforts to fight terrorism, extremism in Middle East

    Date: 2014-07-03 12:15:49 GMT - Russia - International - SN:15 - ID:809765

    Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for collective international efforts to fight terrorism and extremism that are growing in the Middle East and North Africa. Addressing a news conference he held jointly with his Moroccan counterpart ....

  • Egypt, Palestine youth ministers discuss ways of boosting mutual cooperation

    Egypt, Palestine youth ministers discuss ways of boosting mutual cooperation

    Date: 2014-07-03 12:12:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:809756

    Egypt's Youth Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz and his Palestinian counterpart Jibril Rajoub, who currently visits Egypt, have discussed ways of fostering the bilateral cooperation in the fields of youth and sports during the coming period. Abdel-Aziz ....

  • 95% of services back in October 6 call center: TE

    95% of services back in October 6 call center: TE

    Date: 2014-07-03 11:24:01 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:13 - ID:809636

    Telecom Egypt Company said Thursday that repair teams managed to restore 95% of telecommunications services for users of an October 6 City's call center. Work is ongoing to fully restore services during the next 24 hours, the executive director ....

  • Sisi issues decree allocating lands to GARPAD

    Sisi issues decree allocating lands to GARPAD

    Date: 2014-07-03 11:21:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:809629

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued Thursday a decree approving the reallocation of 205.41 feddans of state-owned lands to the General Authority For Reconstruction Projects and Agricultural Development (GARPAD). The allocated plots of land ....

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