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  • 6.5% of Cairo, Giza school workers are drug addicts

    Date: 2017-02-25 10:35:08 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:27 - ID:6584125

    CAIRO, Feb 25 (MENA) - As many as 128 school workers and service assistants have been tested positive to drugs, Social Solidarity Minister Ghada Wali said on Saturday Up to 1,972 workers have been examined in Cairo and Giza since launching the ....

  • Contaminated dessert kills 2 girls in Sohag

    Date: 2017-02-24 22:21:56 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:88 - ID:6582933

    SOHAG, Egypt, Feb 24 (MENA) – Two girls died in Sohag, Upper Egypt, on Friday after they ate dessert contaminated with insecticide at home. The two cousins were identified as Malak el Husseini Badawi, 8, and Shahanda el Sadafawi Badawi, ....

  • Technical secretariat of Egyptian Survey Authority assigned to count Nile isles

    Date: 2017-02-23 13:43:23 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:44 - ID:6574957

    CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - Presidential Assistant for National and Strategic Projects Ibrahim Mahlab referred the Egyptian Survey Authority report on the number of Nile islands to the technical secretariat of the commission. The report revealed that ....

  • Egypt to purchase 360,00 tons of wheat from Russia, Ukraine

    Date: 2017-02-23 10:15:02 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:24 - ID:6573621

    CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - The General Authority For Supply Commodities (GASC) has signed contracts to import 360,000 tons of wheat from Romania and Russia. The agreements, reached under an international tender, include 300,000 tons from Russia for ....

  • 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 ....

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