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  • Fire at transmission tower in Cairo airport controlled

    Date: 2016-01-16 21:53:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:117 - ID:4128613

    CAIRO, Jan 16 (MENA) – Firefighters on Saturday put out a limited fire at a transmission tower in Cairo International Airport. A short circuit was blamed for the fire, according to initial investigations. (MENA) M M E/A R E ....

  • Daqhalia directorate denies bird flu death

    Date: 2016-01-16 15:57:43 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:81 - ID:4126725

    MASNOURA, Egypt, Jan 16 (MENA) – The Daqahlia Health Directorate denied some media reports that a patient died of bird flu. The directorate said there is no bird flu deaths in the governorate. Health Ministry Undersecretary in Daqahlia Saad ....

  • Attempt to smuggle cell phones at Borg el Arab airport foiled

    Date: 2016-01-16 14:50:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:72 - ID:4125665

    CAIRO, Jan 16 (MENA) – Customs authority at Borg el Arab Airport foiled an attempt of smuggling a big quantity of cell phones which are banned to be imported but with a permit from the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA). In statements ....

  • Health Ministry denies bird flu-death in Sharqia

    Date: 2016-01-16 14:16:29 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:66 - ID:4125553

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Jan 16 (MENA) – Health Ministry on Saturday denied media reports that a citizen has died of a bird flu in Sharqia governorate. The reports are completely false and groundless, said head of the preventive medicine department in ....

  • School in Beheira named after Sinai martyr

    Date: 2016-01-16 12:53:51 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:55 - ID:4125057

    DAMANHOUR, Jan 16 (MENA) – Beheira Governor Mohamed Sultan decided to name a primary school in Abu Homos city after martyr Abdullah Ibrahim Shokr who was killed in a terrorist attack against a checkpoint in Sheikh Zuwied in Sinai. The residents ....

  • 2 feddans of opium eradicated in S. Sinai

    Date: 2016-01-16 06:45:31 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:8 - ID:4122717

    CAIRO, Jan 16 (MENA) - South Sinai police have eradicated two feddans of opium in Wadi Firan area. A number of persons had been planting opium and storing it in the mountainous area before troops eradicated the two feddans. All legal measures ....

  • 17 killed, wounded in car crash on ring road

    Date: 2016-01-16 06:40:32 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:6 - ID:4122713

    CAIRO, Jan 16 (MENA) - At least six people have been killed and 11 more wounded in a car crash on the ring road in Mounib. A truck collided with a taxi and a micro bus before the three vehicles fell off the bridge overnight Saturday. Traffic ....

  • Official engineer arrested over bribe in Assuit

    Date: 2016-01-15 18:18:33 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:83 - ID:4121805

    ASSUIT, Egypt, Jan 15 (MENA) - An engineer with a municipality in Assuit, south of Cairo, has been arrested by the administrative control authority over receiving a bribe of EGP100,000. The official, identified as Nadiya S., got the bribe from a ....

  • Suspected seasonal flu cases rise to 16 in N. Sinai

    Date: 2016-01-15 13:41:10 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:59 - ID:4120013

    ARISH, Jan 15 (MENA) – The number of persons suspected of suffering from seasonal flu in North Sinai rose to 16, medics here reported Friday. A medical source said 16 people were admitted to Beir el Abd Hospital with seasonal flu ....

  • Health ministry closely monitoring epidemic situation of bird flu virus

    Date: 2016-01-14 13:55:42 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:85 - ID:4114225

    CAIRO, Jan 14 (MENA) - The Health Ministry affirmed that it is closely following up the epidemic situation of the bird flu virus throughout Egypt's governorates. In a statement, the ministry said that there is close cooperation with the ....

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