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  • Banha University suspends 18 members of teaching staff over joining extremist groups

    Date: 2016-01-13 11:38:10 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:53 - ID:4105913

    BANHA, Egypt, Jan 13 (MENA) – Banha University has suspended 18 members of its teaching staff over joining extremist groups. University President Ali Shams Eddin, in press statements on Wednesday, indicated that the 18 suspended members will be ....

  • Two more bodies recovered at Sharqiya collapsed building

    Date: 2016-01-13 09:25:18 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:24 - ID:4104293

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Jan 13 (MENA) – Rescue teams extracted the bodies of a woman and a teenage girl from the rubric of a collapsed house in Sharqiya, raising the death toll to five. Three people were injured in the collapse and search is still ongoing ....

  • Alex.'s Amerya Bridge under maintenance

    Date: 2016-01-13 07:47:50 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:13 - ID:4103617

    CAIRO, Jan 13 (MENA) – The traffic department started the maintenance of the old Amerya Bridge in Alexandria on the Cairo-Alexandria desert highway. Traffic was diverted to the new Amerya Bridge until the two-month maintenance is completed, the ....

  • 4 ministers launch 2nd phase of youth anti-addiction campaign

    Date: 2016-01-12 13:48:38 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:68 - ID:4098953

    CAIRO, Jan 12 (MENA) - Egypt's ministers of social solidarity, youth and sports, education and culture launched on Tuesday the second phase of a youth campaign dubbed (Choose Your Life). The campaign comes as part of a national plan to combat ....

  • 124,000 tons of wheat arrive at Alex. port

    Date: 2016-01-12 11:21:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:39 - ID:4097745

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan 12 (MENA) – Three vessels carrying 124,000 tons of wheat arrived at Alexandria Port on Tuesday. In statements, Chairman of Alexandria Port Authority Medhat Attiya said the wheat shipments came from Russia and Ukraine, ....

  • N. Sinai governor holds meeting over Arish cleaning crisis

    Date: 2016-01-12 10:13:41 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:27 - ID:4096881

    ARISH, Egypt, Jan 12 (MENA) – North Sinai Governor Abdel Fattah Harhour held an urgent meeting with Al Arish municipality chief, officials of a cleaning company and Al Arish chieftains to resolve the crisis caused after cleaning workers abandoned ....

  • Qaliob building collapses over small gas cylinder blast

    Date: 2016-01-12 09:14:14 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:19 - ID:4096789

    BANHA, Egypt, Jan 12 (MENA) - A two-storey building near Qaliyob collapsed on Tuesday over a small gas cylinder explosion. Fire fighters doused the fire before reaching nearby buildings. Three neighboring buildings were evacuated. (MENA) M N E/D A ....

  • Fire inside Azhar University cafeteria controlled

    Date: 2016-01-11 05:35:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:5 - ID:4088785

    CAIRO, Jan 11 (MENA) - Civil defense troops were able to put out a fire that erupted inside a cafeteria at Al Azhar University early Monday. The fire was caused by a short circuit and resulted in the explosion of a gas cylinder inside the ....

  • Child killed, another injured in house collapse in Qena

    Date: 2016-01-10 22:27:17 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:123 - ID:4088545

    QENA, Egypt, Jan 10 (MENA) – A girl was killed and her sister injured when their house collapsed in Qena. The mud brick house, constructed with a palm leaf roof, caved in and left the nine-year-old dead and her 10-year-old sister injured. ....

  • Beheira governor orders evacuation of cracked house from explosion of storage cooler

    Date: 2016-01-10 08:40:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:19 - ID:4082709

    DAMANHOUR, Jan 10 (MENA) - Beheira Governor Mohammad Sultan has ordered the evacuation of a house that was cracked by the explosion of a fruit storage cooler in Mahmoudiya city, said Media Spokesman of Beheira Governorate Wahdan el Sayyed. The ....

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