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  • Traffic accident leaves 6 dead, 20 injured in Sohag

    Date: 2016-10-28 10:14:56 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:22 - ID:5854037

    SOHAG, Egypt, Oct 28 (MENA) - A bus and three trucks overturned on Sohag-Qena desert road leaving six dead and 20 others injured. The accident took place after torrential raisn hit some Upper Egypt governorates. Rescue teams have so far ....

  • Committee checks file of inmates to release them in line with republican pardon

    Date: 2016-10-27 14:01:21 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:73 - ID:5849941

    CAIRO, Oct 27 (MENA) - The Prison authority sector continued efforts to check the files of inmates across the republic to pardon some prisoners in line with a republican decree on shortening the prison terms of some inmates on the occasion of the ....

  • Cairo governor tours new leather industry city on outskirts of Cairo

    Date: 2016-10-26 19:13:23 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:78 - ID:5845089

    CAIRO, Oct 26 (MENA) – Cairo Governor Atef Abdel Hameed on Wednesday toured the new leather industry city in Al Robeiky area, on the outskirts of Cairo. During the tour, Abdel Hameed said that transferring the leather industry area from old Cairo ....

  • Egypt purchases 420,000 tons of Romanian, Russian wheat

    Date: 2016-10-26 07:54:56 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:10 - ID:5840177

    CAIRO, Oct 26 (MENA) - The General Authority For Supply Commodities (GASC) was contracted to purchase 420,000 tons of wheat; 240,000 tons from Romania and 180,000 from Russia. The GASC held - on behalf of the Supply Ministry - an international bid ....

  • Interior min. approves renewing protocol with NCW

    Date: 2016-10-25 17:31:48 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:95 - ID:5837901

    CAIRO, Oct 25 (MENA) - Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar approved on Tuesday renewing a cooperation protocol with the National Council for Women (NCW) to combat violence against women. This move comes as part of the Interior Ministry's ....

  • Traffic, navigation, aviation not affected by moderate rains in Alex

    Date: 2016-10-25 09:01:24 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:15 - ID:5833113

    ALEXANDRIA, Oct 25 (MENA) - Traffic, navigation and aviation were not affected by Tuesday's moderate rains in some parts of Alexandria. Alexandria Authority Spokesman Reda el Ghandour said all needed measures were taken to ensure that water would ....

  • CCI holds meeting to discuss issues of Egyptian chemical industries sector

    Date: 2016-10-24 20:39:08 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:97 - ID:5831545

    CAIRO, Oct 24 (MENA) – The board of directors of the Chamber of Chemical Industries (CCI) on Monday held a meeting to discuss a number of issues pertaining to the Egyptian chemical industries sector. During the meeting, CCI Chairman Sherif Al ....

  • Env. minister, Cairo governor probe upgrading waste collection system

    Date: 2016-10-24 10:15:31 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:28 - ID:5827577

    CAIRO, Oct 24 (MENA) - Cairo Governor Atef Abdel Hamid conferred on Monday with Minister of Environment Khaled Fahmy on means of bolstering cooperation over upgrading the waste collection system in the capital. The two officials probed the best ....

  • More than 28,000 liters of diesel, 13 tons of wheat seized by supply police

    Date: 2016-10-23 12:09:27 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:38 - ID:5821905

    CAIRO, Oct 23 (MENA) - Supply police launched several campaigns in coordination with supply departments at the security directorates in order to control prices and ease the burden on citizens. During the past 24 hours, supply police seized more ....

  • 3 killed, 10 injured in collision in Gharbiya

    Date: 2016-10-22 22:23:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:82 - ID:5819681

    TANTA, Egypt, Oct 22 (MENA) – Three people were killed and 10 others injured on Saturday in a collision on Mahla-Zifta highway in Gharbiya governorate. Earlier, security forces and ambulances rushed to the area after a microbus collided with a ....

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