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  • Daylight saving time to be suspended as of next Thursday: Cabinet

    Daylight saving time to be suspended as of next Thursday: Cabinet

    Date: 2014-06-20 07:07:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:787840

    Egypt's Cabinet said Thursday the daylight saving time (DST) will be temporarily suspended as of next Thursday midnight on the advent of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Clocks will be turned back by 60 minutes to standard time at midnight ....

  • Pope Tawadros II calls for enforcing law, reforming media and education

    Pope Tawadros II calls for enforcing law, reforming media and education

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:44:52 GMT - Norway - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:787586

    Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese said Thursday addressing the current problems in Egypt required a plan of three elements: enforcing law, reforming education and media. Earlier in the day, Pope Tawadros II arrived ....

  • Saudi FM: Good response to call by Saudi king for Egypt donors' conf.

    Saudi FM: Good response to call by Saudi king for Egypt donors' conf.

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:42:25 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:787584

    Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al-Faisal highlighted Thursday a noticeable positive response over to the Saudi King's call for holding donors' conference to support the Egyptian economy. The minister made the remarks at a joint ....

  • PM inspects development projects in Alex.

    PM inspects development projects in Alex.

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:40:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:787582

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab checked on a number of development projects in Alexandria province. Mahlab issued directives to finish the expansion works on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road by the end of this month. Development works on the ....

  • Badie, others sentenced to death over Istiqamah Mosque incidents

    Badie, others sentenced to death over Istiqamah Mosque incidents

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:39:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:787581

    Giza Criminal Court Thursday sentenced to death 14 defendants belonging to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and al-Jamaa al-Islamiya groups and the referral of defendants to the Grand Mufti for his advisory opinion on the imposition of the ....

  • Military intelligence solves Egyptian truck drivers' crisis in Libya

    Military intelligence solves Egyptian truck drivers' crisis in Libya

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:37:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:787577

    The military intelligence has succeeded in ending the crisis of 50 Egyptian truck drivers held on the international highway in Brega district, western Benghazi, head of the military intelligence bureau in Marsa Matrouh said Thursday. Some Libyan ....

  • EGP 128bln allocated for energy subsidy during 2012/2013 FY - minister

    EGP 128bln allocated for energy subsidy during 2012/2013 FY - minister

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:28:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:787568

    The amount of subsidy for petrol, solar and mazut in Egypt during 2012/2013 fiscal year hit 128 billion pounds, said Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Sherif Ismail. Speaking at a press conference held here Thursday in the presence of ....

  • Huge fire in a mall in Basion controlled

    Huge fire in a mall in Basion controlled

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:26:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:787563

    A huge fire erupted in a mall in Gharbiya's Basion City on Thursday. Five fire trucks moved to the scene and extinguished the fire which destroyed six shops. The prosecution was notified to open investigations and criminal lab experts will be ....

  • Coming phase will see more cooperation between Egypt and other Nile Basin countries-- Official

    Coming phase will see more cooperation between Egypt and other Nile Basin countries-- Official

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:25:45 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:787562

    The coming phase will see more cooperation between Egypt and other African countries, said Ahmed Bahaa Eddin, the head of the Egyptian delegation to meetings of the water resources ministers of the Nile Basin countries, now in session here. In ....

  • Bomb goes off in Qlyoubia near mental hospital

    Bomb goes off in Qlyoubia near mental hospital

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:22:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:787561

    A primitive bomb went off on Thursday in Qlyoubia province near the mental hospital with no casualties being reported. Bomb experts were able to defuse another bomb before going off at the same site. Qalyoubia Security Director Major General ....

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