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  • Fire at St. Mina Church in Shoubra contained; no casualties

    Date: 2016-06-18 19:24:07 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:71 - ID:5119849

    CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) – Civil defense teams contained a fire that erupted earlier on Saturday at St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo's Shoubra district. No casualties were reported. The fire started at the first floor of the church and ....

  • Supply ministry to sign cooperation deal with Misr el Khair, Food Bank

    Date: 2016-06-18 11:55:47 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:34 - ID:5117525

    CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) – Supply Minister Khaled Hanafy will sign on Sunday a cooperation protocol with Misr el Kheir Foundation and the Egyptian Food Bank. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said the protocol is meant to implement an ....

  • 5 arrested over leaking secondary school exams

    Date: 2016-06-18 10:53:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:24 - ID:5117165

    CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) - Security forces arrested five people over leaking secondary school exams through social networking sites Facebook and Whatsapp. Earlier, security bodies spotted a Facebook page that publishes pictures and publications that ....

  • 23,000 tons of Russian wheat arrive at Alex. port

    Date: 2016-06-18 09:45:31 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:14 - ID:5116777

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 18 (MENA) – A vessel carrying 23,000 tons of Russian wheat arrived at Alexandria Port on Saturday. In a statement, spokesman for Alexandria Port Authority Reda el Ghandour said the wheat shipment came from Russia, adding ....

  • 7 killed, wounded in Ras Sedr accident

    Date: 2016-06-17 16:22:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:52 - ID:5114977

    EL TOUR, Egypt, June 17 (MENA) - One person was killed and six others were wounded on Friday in a car accident in the coastal city of Ras Sedr. The body was identified as Hanan Ahmed Wahba, 53. The casualties were taken to a Ras Sedr ....

  • High school student arrested in Alex. for leaking exam

    Date: 2016-06-17 12:36:52 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:34 - ID:5113809

    ALEXANDRIA, June 17 (MENA) – A High school student was arrested in Alexandria for leaking an Arabic exam before its scheduled date. The security forces also found model answers to the exam question with Mohamed H., 18. Initial investigations ....

  • Egypt bourse loses EGP 10.2bn in week

    Date: 2016-06-16 20:57:55 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:104 - ID:5111465

    CAIRO, June 16 (MENA) - The Egyptian Exchange closed this week with losses amounting to EGP 10.2 billion. During the course of the week, the bourse indexes dropped collectively. The main benchmark EGX 30 index went down 4.33 percent reaching ....

  • Seven killed in different incidents in Upper Egypt

    Date: 2016-06-16 19:56:45 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:101 - ID:5111337

    SOHAG, QENA, Egypt, June 16 (MENA) – Seven people were killed in different incidents in the Upper Egyptian governorates of Sohag and Qena. In Sohag, two people were killed in a road accident and three others drowned. Also in Sohag, a ....

  • Agriculture min. urges developing Egypt's poultry industry

    Date: 2016-06-15 13:07:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:50 - ID:5102621

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - Agriculture Minister Essam Fayed stressed the importance of developing the poultry industry in Egypt to alleviate the shortage of animal protein and red meat. During a meeting with the head and members of the Egyptian ....

  • Prices of most of food commodities increased from June 6 to June 12 - IDSC

    Date: 2016-06-15 11:48:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:39 - ID:5101701

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - The prices of most of food commodities topped by meat, fish and dairy products went up from June 6 until June 12, said a report issued by the Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) on the prices of food ....

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