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  • Death toll among Egyptian pilgrims rises to 17 - Health ministry

    Date: 2017-09-01 15:45:57 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:41 - ID:6971662

    MECCA, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Egyptian Health Ministry said on Friday the death of two pilgrims from Damietta and Dakahlia governorates, taking the number of Egyptian pilgrims who died in Saudi Arabia to 17. A 60-year-old woman died from cardiac ....

  • Britain lifts electronic device ban on flights from Cairo: EgyptAir

    Date: 2017-09-01 15:32:35 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:38 - ID:6971602

    CAIRO, Sept 1 (MENA) - EgyptAir said that British authorities had lifted a ban on carry-on electronic devices on EgyptAir flights arriving from Cairo airport starting from Friday. In a statement on Friday, the flag carrier said that such ....

  • 116 prisoners pardoned on Eidul Adha

    Date: 2017-09-01 12:30:03 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:29 - ID:6971473

    CAIRO, Sept 1 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry’s prison department released on Friday 116 prisoners pardoned under a presidential decree. The presidential decree pardoned some prisoners from serving the remaining period of their jail term on the ....

  • Church leaders greet Egyptians on Eidul Adha

    Date: 2017-09-01 12:27:31 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:28 - ID:6971464

    CAPITALS OF GOVERNORATES, Sept 1 (MENA) - Church leaders and priests visited on Friday a number of governors nationwide to greet them and all Egyptians on the occasion of Eidul Adha. During their visits, the priests praised strong ties between ....

  • Qena allocates lands for new service projects

    Date: 2017-08-30 18:50:08 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:87 - ID:6969670

    QENA, Egypt, Aug 30 (MENA) - Lands have been allocated by authorities in Qena, south of Cairo, for service projects to be implemented in the governorate. Among the allocations is a 4,000-square-meter-plot for a slaughterhouse to be set up on the ....

  • Employees at Masria firm punished for not selling meat to citizens in Assiut

    Date: 2017-08-30 16:45:08 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:81 - ID:6969571

    ASSIUT, Upper Egypt, Aug 30 (MENA) - Assiut Governor Yasser el Desouky referred officials at the meat section in the Egyptian Company for Wholesale Trade (Masria) and the supply inspector to investigation. The employees refrained from selling ....

  • IDSC denies strike by train drivers ahead of Eidul Adha's vacation

    Date: 2017-08-30 14:04:27 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:68 - ID:6969370

    CAIRO, Aug 30 (MENA) - The Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) denied news fanned in media and social networking websites about the strike of train drivers of the Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA) ahead of Eidul Adha'a vacation. In a ....

  • Cooperation bet. Aswan university, Korean ones

    Date: 2017-08-29 16:26:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:93 - ID:6968090

    ASWAN, Aug 29 (MENA)- President of Aswan university Ahmed Ghallab received on Tuesday S.Korean ambassador to Cairo Song Yong and his accompanying delegation. The meeting took up scientific cooperation between Aswan University and S.Korean ones ....

  • Death toll from Beni Suef collision rises to 15

    Date: 2017-08-29 15:54:46 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:88 - ID:6968050

    CAIRO, Aug 29 (MENA) - The death toll from a bus-truck collision on Beni Suef-Cairo road rose to 15, Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed said. Thirty-three persons are still receiving treatment, while eight others have already been ....

  • Health Ministry: 2,458 tons of spoiled food destroyed

    Date: 2017-08-27 13:53:45 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:43 - ID:6964346

    CAIRO, Aug 27 (MENA) – About 2,458 tons of various foodstuffs and 139,527 litres of juice and beverages were destroyed after became unfit for human consumption, the Health Ministry announced. The huge quantity of rotten foods had been seized ....

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