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  • Developing railways network needs EGP 10bln, says transport min.

    Date: 2017-08-14 14:01:58 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:43 - ID:6944433

    CAIRO, Aug 14 (MENA) - Transport Minister Hisham Arafat revealed that developing the railways network nationwide costs 10 billion pounds. Addressing a meeting of the parliament's transportation committee held to discuss Alexandria trains ....

  • 9 suspects suspended from work over investigations of Alex. train collision

    Date: 2017-08-13 18:11:50 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:63 - ID:6943366

    CAIRO, Aug 13 (MENA) – Head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority Rashida Abdel Fattah has ordered the suspension of nine civil servants for three months with allowing them to receive half of their salaries, over the investigations conducted ....

  • Marsa Alam city to suffer four-hour outage on Monday for maintenance operations

    Date: 2017-08-13 10:18:10 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:14 - ID:6942456

    HURGHADA, Aug 13 (MENA) - Marsa Alam municipal council in southern Red Sea governorate said the city will suffer on Monday a four-hour outage for maintenance operations. In a statement on Sunday, the council said the power cut will be from 9 am ....

  • Prosecution requests DNA tests for Alexandria train victims

    Date: 2017-08-12 15:41:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:52 - ID:6941700

    ALEXANDRIA, Aug 12 (MENA) – Public Prosecution in Alexandria ordered Saturday to carry out DNA tests to identify people whose bodies were torn in Friday's train crash. Meanwhile, a committee of professors from the Faculty of Engineering of ....

  • EGP 13 m for establish parking lots complex in Aswan

    Date: 2017-08-12 15:24:00 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:49 - ID:6941626

    ASWAN, Aug 12 (MENA) – Aswan governor Magdi Hegazi approved earmarking EGP 13 million to establish a microbus parking complex in Kom Ombo, Aswan governorate, the city municipality head Adel Talha said Saturday. The new parking lots are expected to ....

  • Seven-way committee formed to probe Alex train crash

    Date: 2017-08-12 14:44:50 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:45 - ID:6941470

    CAIRO, Aug 12 (MENA) – Chief Prosecutor Nabil Ahmed ordered Saturday forming a seven-way committee to prepare an all-out report on the Cairo-Alexandria trains collision on Friday. In a statement on Saturday, the prosecutor's office said the ....

  • Medical teams available around clock to provide care for injured people in Alex trains collision

    Date: 2017-08-12 14:28:20 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:44 - ID:6941538

    ALEXANDRIA, Aug 12 (MENA) – Medical teams were formed to be present at hospitals around the clock to provide needed medical care for those injured in the Alexandria train crash, Alexandria governor Mohamed Sultan said. All the hospitals, where the ....

  • Interior Ministry launches humanitarian initiative

    Date: 2017-08-12 14:12:56 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:42 - ID:6941533

    CAIRO, Aug 12, (MENA) - The Interior Minister launched on Saturday a humanitarian and societal initiative under which 85 patients underwent medical check-ups and got needed medicine. The action falls within the framework of the ministry's ....

  • Cairo-Alexandria train movement partially resumed after removing remnants of trains collision - source

    Date: 2017-08-12 10:03:35 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:19 - ID:6941056

    ALEXANDRIA, Aug 12 (MENA) - Cairo-Alexandria train movement was partially resumed after removing remnants of two trains collision in Alexandria, a well-placed source at the Egyptian National Railways said on Saturday. Two passenger trains ....

  • Facade of uninhabited building in Cairo’s Shubra El Kheima collapses

    Date: 2017-08-11 12:55:52 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:29 - ID:6940025

    BENHA, Egypt, Aug 11 (MENA) – The facade of an uninhabited building in Cairo's Shubra El Kheima district collapsed on Friday, with no casualties reported. Civil protection forces and officials from Shubra El Kheima municipality rushed to the ....

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