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  • New head of civil aviation authority appointed

    New head of civil aviation authority appointed

    Date: 2014-02-05 07:34:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:538135

    Civil Aviation Minister Abdel-Aziz Fadel has appointed captain Mahmoud el-Zanaty as new chief of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority. El-Zanaty succeeds outgoing chairman Eng. Mohamad Ibrahim Sherif who retired. Fadel hailed the efforts ....

  • Calm prevails in Khasos police stationas jailbreak attempt foiled

    Calm prevails in Khasos police stationas jailbreak attempt foiled

    Date: 2014-02-05 07:33:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:538132

    Calm has prevailed in the vicinity of El-Khasos police station after a jailbreak attempt by 68 detainees has been foiled. Three central security forces vehicles have been deployed near the building, said a security source on Tuesday. Security ....

  • Unidentified people set ablaze police vehicle in Tanta

    Unidentified people set ablaze police vehicle in Tanta

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:53:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:68 - ID:537816

    Security forces in Tanta, Gharbiya province are intensifying their efforts to identify those behind setting a police vehicle ablaze. The vehicle was parked outside a mechanic's. Investigations uncovered that the perpetrators used petrol to set ....

  • Fire put out at Qaliubiya mill company

    Fire put out at Qaliubiya mill company

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:47:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:67 - ID:537804

    Civil protection forces in the Nile Delta province of Qaliubiya have managed to contain fire that caught a mill company. No casualties or material damage were reported. ....

  • Peres defends US handling of peace effors, commitment to Israel

    Peres defends US handling of peace effors, commitment to Israel

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:44:53 GMT - Israel - International - SN:66 - ID:537801

    Israeli President Shimon Peres on Wednesday defended the US handling of peace efforts and its commitment to Israel, in a veiled criticism of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s recent withering critique of US Secretary of State John Kerry. At a ....

  • Six MB members arrested for attacking police, property in Daqahliya

    Six MB members arrested for attacking police, property in Daqahliya

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:29:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:537035

    Police in Senbelaween district on Tuesday foiled an attempt by six members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group targeting a mobile phone beefing-up station. The suspects also targeted policemen and property, according to ....

  • Egypt FM discusses trade exchange with Italian minister

    Egypt FM discusses trade exchange with Italian minister

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:16:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:65 - ID:537769

    Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy has held discussion with Italy's Minister for Economic Development Flavio Zanonato over means of boosting joint investments and refreshing trade exchange between the two countries. According to the spokesman at ....

  • At least 13 killed as train crashes into taxi bus in Ukraine

    At least 13 killed as train crashes into taxi bus in Ukraine

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:14:20 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:64 - ID:537767

    At least thirteen people have died and seven others were injured when a commuter train slammed into a shuttle bus in Sumy province in the northeastern part of the Ukraine, the Voice of Russian reported Tuesday. "The shuttle bus ignored the ....

  • Janjaweed militias start pulling out from North Kordofan state

    Janjaweed militias start pulling out from North Kordofan state

    Date: 2014-02-04 18:07:21 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:63 - ID:537756

    The pro-government Janjaweed militias started Tuesday withdrawing from Sudan's North Kordofan state as a 72-hour deadline announced by governor Ahmed Mohamed Haroun for them to leave ends. Haroun made the announcement on Sunday in the wake of ....

  • Kuwait and Italy stress support for Egypt roadmap

    Kuwait and Italy stress support for Egypt roadmap

    Date: 2014-02-04 17:56:44 GMT - Kuwait - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:537709

    Kuwait and Italy have stressed support for efforts made by the interim government in Egypt to implement the future roadmap. Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah made this clear in a ....

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