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  • Train collides with truck in Qalubiya, no casualties

    Date: 2017-01-21 19:20:08 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:69 - ID:6378109

    BANHA, Egypt, Jan 21 (MENA) – A train collided with a truck that broke down on a railway crossing in Qalubiya governorate on Saturday with no casualties reported. The collision occurred on Beltan railway crossing on the agricultural highway in ....

  • Poultry infected with H5N1 discovered in Menofiya - veterinary medicine

    Date: 2017-01-21 16:27:37 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:59 - ID:6377177

    SHEBIN EL KOUM, Egypt, Jan 21 (MENA) - Veterinary Medicine Undersecretary in Menofiya Magdy Abulliel underlined that poultry in el Iraqia village were found infected with H5N1 virus. The poultry were executed and buried in sanitary landfill in ....

  • Egypt purchases 60,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat

    Date: 2017-01-20 16:12:20 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:79 - ID:6371689

    CAIRO, Jan 20 (MENA) - The General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) has signed contracts to import 60,000 tons of wheat from Ukraine. In a statement on Friday, the Supply and Internal Trade Ministry said that it, represented by the GASC, ....

  • Damietta Port receives 8 vessels

    Date: 2017-01-20 15:34:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:76 - ID:6371573

    DAMIETTA, Egypt, Jan 20 (MENA) – Damietta Port received eight vessels; two container vessels and six ships, loaded with general goods, over the past 24 hours, a statement by the Damietta Port Authority said on Friday. Also, two container ships ....

  • Cairo highways closed for one hour over heavy fog

    Date: 2017-01-19 14:25:51 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:45 - ID:6364253

    CAIRO, Jan 19 (MENA) - The General Directorate of Traffic has closed Cairo highways for an hour over the heavy fog that caused a traffic congestion in key roads of Greater Cairo, Assistant Interior Minister Adel Zaki said on Thursday. Alexandria ....

  • All highways opened after end of heavy fog

    Date: 2017-01-18 10:02:15 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:19 - ID:6355805

    CAIRO, Jan 18 (MENA) - All the highways and desert roads have been re-opened, after being closed Wednesday morning due to heavy fog that enveloped the country, said head of the interior ministry's General Traffic Department Adel Zaki. In exclusive ....

  • 9 mummified crocodiles seized at fish restaurant in Aswan

    Date: 2017-01-17 12:19:29 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:35 - ID:6350237

    CAIRO, Jan 17 (MENA) - The Environment Ministry has seized nine mummified crocodiles and a swan that were on display at a fish restaurant in Aswan. The swan was placed in Salouga national park in Aswan and the mummified crocodiles were placed at ....

  • Transport minister: Building mega bridges over the Nile at cost of EGP 4 bn

    Date: 2017-01-15 10:51:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:29 - ID:6335437

    CAIRO, Jan 15 (MENA) - Minister of Transport Galal el Saeed said the ministry will implement a number of mega bridges over the Nile at a total cost of EGP four billion. This came at the minister's meeting with the chairman and top officials of ....

  • 420 illegal medical facilities closed in Qalubiya - Official

    Date: 2017-01-13 21:02:48 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:76 - ID:6327689

    BANHA, Egypt, Jan 13 (MENA) – Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Qalubiya Nasif Hefnawi said on Friday that 420 medical facilities in the governorate were closed for violating the law. The medical facilities include 150 unlicensed ....

  • Probe into 2 corruption incidents in ration supplies' system in Alex. resumed

    Date: 2017-01-12 14:43:04 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:37 - ID:6320013

    ALEXANDRIA, Jan 12 (MENA) - Alexandria's prosecution resumed on Thursday investigations in the incident of arresting two persons over stealing ration supplies and forging ration cards. A committee was formed by the police which revealed that one ....

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