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Egypt urges Israel to exercise self-restraint to defuse tensions
Date: 2014-06-16 09:39:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:780538
Egypt has demanded Israel to exercise maximum self-restraint as Tel Aviv threatens a strong retaliation after blaming Hamas for kidnapping three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank. Israel should stop escalation so the tensions could be contained, ....
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Cargo train overturns, forces halt of train traffic
Date: 2014-06-16 09:37:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:780428
A cargo train derailed in Talat Harb district in Kafr Al-Dawar in Beheira after it collided with a cement bloc due to high speed, causing three carriages to overturn and leaving one soldier, four conscripts and the driver injured. Beheira ....
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CAPMAS: 50% of deaths from road accidents in 2013 among youth
Date: 2014-06-16 09:35:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:780532
A report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has shown that 50 percent of deaths due to road accidents in 2013 were among youth ranging between 15 and 29 years old. Road accidents increased by 0.4 percent in ....
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US embassy in Baghdad to send some personnel out
Date: 2014-06-16 09:34:47 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:780529
With Baghdad threatened by the advance of an al-Qaida-inspired insurgency, the State Department is reinforcing security at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq’s capital — and sending some personnel out of town, The Washington Post said Monday. Much of the ....
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Abdel Nour: Egypt capable of luring foreign investments, reaching out to int'l markets
Date: 2014-06-16 09:32:57 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:36 - ID:780523
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Munir Fakhri Abdel Nour said Egypt is capable of luring investments given its Arab and African orientations and in view of its trade relations with several world countries, asserting that the Egyptian ....
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Modern grain storage units to be established -- minister
Date: 2014-06-16 09:31:50 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:35 - ID:780521
Modern storage units will be established in all provinces to store grains, said the supply minister on Monday. The plan was discussed at a meeting Khaled Hanafy held with David Blumberg, CEO of Blumberg Grain. The planned units will preserve ....
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Spain arrests eight in 'ISIS cell'
Date: 2014-06-16 09:30:08 GMT - Spain - International - SN:34 - ID:780517
Spanish police said Monday they have detained eight people on suspicion of recruiting militants to fight in Syria and Iraq, the BBC reported. They suspect the cell of trying to send jihadists to join the militant group ISIS - the Islamic State in ....
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Egypt renews detention of terrorist who fought in Syria
Date: 2014-06-16 09:28:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:780508
For the fourth time, the Suez Public Prosecution renewed on Monday the detention of a terrorist who fought in the Syrian civil war over charges of planning terrorist acts inside Egypt, a judicial source said. Wael Ahmed Abdel Fattah, 38, will ....
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Tayyeb to confer with experts committee on Zakat project
Date: 2014-06-16 09:27:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:780500
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Dr Ahmed el-Tayyeb is set to meet with a committee of experts to review the final touches of a project to establish the Egyptian House of Zakat and Charity. The project has already been submitted to President Abdel-Fattah ....
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Electoral alliance important step to support Egypt - official
Date: 2014-06-16 09:26:05 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:780494
Mourad Mouwafi, former director of Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate, stressed that the electoral alliance he is seeking to form is an important step to support Egypt. The alliance is still under formation and when completed, it will be ....
