Miscellaneous

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  • Egypt's National Circus to perform in North Korea

    Date: 2014-04-06 08:50:50 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:16 - ID:651800

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) - A delegation of the National Circus performers will head for North Korea n Monday to take part in the International Spring Festival, to kick off on Friday. Director of the circus Adel Reda said Egypt is the only Arab ....

  • 8,000 Ukraine troops in Crimea defected to Russia

    Date: 2014-04-05 08:20:02 GMT - Russia - Miscellaneous - SN:14 - ID:650024

    MOSCOW, April 5 (MENA) - Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 8,000 soldiers stationed in Crimea have left Ukraine's military to join the Russian armed forces, RIA Novosti reported Saturday. Shoigu said that the soldiers have applied for ....

  • 1,600 tourists arrive at Maras Alam airport

    Date: 2014-04-04 15:09:35 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:75 - ID:649304

    MARSA ALAM, Egypt, April 4 (MENA) - Twelve planes landed at Marsa Alam airport Friday carrying 1,600 tourists of different nationalities. Meanwhile, as many as 13,500 tourists departed on 11 flights, director general of the airport Hussein Refqi ....

  • Egyptian pavilion at AITF inaugurated

    Date: 2014-04-04 12:07:04 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:42 - ID:648982

    CAIRO, April 4 (MENA) - Azerbaijani Culture and Tourism Minister Abulfas Garayev and Egypt's Chargé d'affaires Haitham Galal inaugurated on Friday the Egyptian pavilion at the Azerbaijan International Travel and Tourism Fair (AITF). As many as ....

  • Theme park to be built in Borj el-Arab on usufruct basis

    Date: 2014-04-03 12:07:11 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:62 - ID:647055

    CAIRO, April 3 (MENA) – The New Urban Communities Authority said a theme park will be built in the New Borj el-Arab city on an area of about 10.43 acres, vice president Kamal Fahmy said. He said the park will be built on a usufruct basis for 15 ....

  • RfPs for tourist projects to be issued in Alexandria

    Date: 2014-04-03 10:35:05 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:43 - ID:646732

    ALEXANDRIA, April 3 (MENA) – Alexandria officials are reviewing legal measures for issuing the requests for proposals for several tourist projects in the coastal city, Governor Tareq el-Mahdy said. "Tourism is an important factor for development. ....

  • 3 killed, 4 injured in car crash north-east of Aswan

    Date: 2014-04-03 06:22:19 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:3 - ID:646561

    ASWAN, April 3 (MENA) - Three people were killed and four injured in a deadly car accident on the Edfu-Marsa Alam road early Thursday morning. The car overturned due to high speed at the 17 km mark on the road north-east of Aswan. The bodies ....

  • No dinosaur skeleton in Great Pyramid -- Minister

    Date: 2014-04-02 15:14:14 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:118 - ID:645428

    CAIRO, April 2 (MENA) - Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim has denied online news about a dinosaur skeleton found inside a chamber in the Great Pyramid in Giza. This news is totally baseless, Ibrahim said, stressing he has not made any ....

  • Jellyfish appear off Lake Qaroun

    Date: 2014-04-01 16:39:04 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:125 - ID:643812

    FAYYOUM, Upper Egypt, April 1 (MENA) - Jellyfish appeared Wednesday off Lake Qaroun in Fayyoum. Fishers have always complained that jellyfish hinder fishing in the lake by sticking to the nets, forcing them to dump what they get from the lake to ....

  • Nile water level unchanged

    Date: 2014-04-01 13:05:51 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:79 - ID:643209

    CAIRO, April 1 (MENA) - The Nile River water level recorded 175.33 meters on Tuesday, the same as the reading of Monday. Water released from Aswan Dam reached 145 million cubic meters and water coming freshly to Lake Nasser today was 150 million ....

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