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  • IDSC: Reports on penalizing having more kids ‘baseless’

    Date: 2017-02-22 18:49:48 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:61 - ID:6570061

    CAIRO, Feb 22 (MENA) - The Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) dismissed Wednesday reports saying the government was mulling over imposing a legal penalty over parents who have many kids. “The report is baseless,” ....

  • 17 security personnel injured in Hurghada road accident

    Date: 2017-02-22 09:09:19 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:17 - ID:6566637

    HURGHADA, Feb 22 (MENA) - Seventeen non-commissioned officers - affiliated to ports security staff - were injured when the microbus transporting them overturned on the Hurghada International Airport road. Ten ambulances were rushed to the scene ....

  • Fire in Qaliobiya plastic mats factory contained

    Date: 2017-02-21 08:16:41 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:17 - ID:6560445

    QALIOBIYA, Feb 21 (MENA) - The civil defense forces in Qaliobiya managed to contain a fire that broke out on Tuesday in a plastic mats factory in Bahtim district in Shoubra el Kheima. No casualties were reported. Investigations are underway to ....

  • Civil protection teams control huge fire in Port Said

    Date: 2017-02-20 07:13:21 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:10 - ID:6553405

    PORT SAID, Feb 20 (MENA) - Civil protection forces put out a huge fire that broke out in a restaurant in Port Said and extended to three neighboring wood-made houses. The blaze did not cause casualties. The fire occurred when a butane gas ....

  • 16 new schools to be opened in Giza within coming days - Giza governor

    Date: 2017-02-17 12:12:11 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:36 - ID:6539477

    GIZA, Feb 17 (MENA) - Giza Governor Mohamed Kamal el Dali said the establishment process of 16 new schools has been finalized. The schools will be opened within the coming days, Dali said, noting that the governorate seeks to expand in the ....

  • Sharm el Sheikh port re-opens as weather improves

    Date: 2017-02-17 07:41:05 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:12 - ID:6538385

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Feb 17 (MENA) –Sharm el Sheikh port was re-opened on Friday after weather improved, the spokesman for the Red Sea Ports Authority said. Navigation in Red Sea ports is going on normally, Malak Youssef said. (MENA) M N E/A S E ....

  • Alexandria, Dekheila ports reopened after weather improved

    Date: 2017-02-17 07:06:49 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:8 - ID:6538173

    CAIRO, Feb 17 (MENA) – The ports of Alexandria and Dekheila were reopened on Friday morning after the weather improved, Spokesman for Alexandria Port Authority Reda el Ghandour said. The movement of the ships is regular once again, Ghandour added ....

  • Two killed, five injured in road accident in Assiut

    Date: 2017-02-16 06:29:06 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:4 - ID:6531441

    ASSIUT, Upper Egypt, Feb 16 (MENA) - Two persons were killed and five others injured in a collision on Cairo-Assiut desert road on Wednesday. Assiut security chief Atef Qulaiay was notified that a pick-up truck collided with a microbus on ....

  • Pedestrian bridge on Cairo-Alexandria desert road collapses

    Date: 2017-02-12 15:24:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:56 - ID:6509085

    ALEXANDRIA, Feb 12 (MENA) - One person was wounded when a pedestrian bridge on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road collapsed, wounding one person. The incident snarled traffic movement on the road until civil protection forces arrived. Brigadier ....

  • Man arrested over trading in firearms

    Date: 2017-02-12 13:16:34 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:40 - ID:6507641

    CAIRO, Feb 12 (MENA) - Security forces managed to arrest a person over charges of trading in firearms and selling them to criminal elements. The arrestee, who was nabbed with large amount of pistols, confessed to selling the firearms to ....

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