Security and Crime
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Two hard currency black marketeers arrested in Sohag
Date: 2016-08-08 10:24:19 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:30 - ID:5391793
CAIRO, Aug 8 (MENA) – Sohag security forces managed on Monday to seize two persons over serving as hard currency brokers in the black market. The two were arrested with 1.4 million EGP in their possession. During investigations, the two ....
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Parliament approves amendments to police authority law
Date: 2016-08-07 17:22:57 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:5389109
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - The House of Representatives approved on Sunday two bills presented by the government to amend some provisions of the Police Authority Law no. 109 of 1971. The new amendments include eight articles. MP Younes el Gaher ....
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Prosecution renews custody of 8 MB members in Gharbiya over violence charges
Date: 2016-08-07 16:27:30 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:57 - ID:5389077
TANTA, Egypt, Aug 7 (MENA) – The Gharbiya prosecution renewed the detention of eight Muslim Brotherhood members for 15 days pending probe over violence incitement charges. The eight had been arrested over charges of inciting riots and violence, ....
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2 killed, 14 wounded in Fayyoum, Red Sea governorates
Date: 2016-08-07 13:45:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:40 - ID:5387933
FAYYOUM/RED SEA, Egypt, Aug 7 (MENA) - One person was killed and three others were wounded after the sides of a well collapsed over them in Fayyoum governorate. Also, six people were wounded in a car accident in the same governorate. They were ....
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Prisons Sector approves appeal to move prisoner from Tora to Minya prison to facilitate visiting him
Date: 2016-08-07 12:32:06 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:31 - ID:5387297
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - The Prisons Sector has approved an appeal raised by a father of one of the prisoners held in Tora prison requesting to move his son to Minya prison to make visits easier to him. This comes within the Interior Ministry’s ....
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Gas leak behind blast sound in Darb el Ahmar - ministry
Date: 2016-08-07 12:23:26 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:28 - ID:5386637
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - A gas leakage was behind the sound of a blast heard by residents of Darb el Ahmar district early Sunday, the Interior Ministry said. A gas leakage was reported on the third floor of an apartment building that caused a blast ....
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Infiltration attempt by 47 people into Libya foiled
Date: 2016-08-07 06:55:45 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:7 - ID:5385361
MARSA MATROUH, Aug 7 (MENA) - Matrouh security bodies foiled an attempt by 47 people, including six foreigners, to infiltrate into Libya via Salloum. The infiltrators include 12 from Assiut, 11 from Minya, seven from Fayyoum, five from Giza, three ....
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Belgian police officers injured in machete attack
Date: 2016-08-06 18:30:05 GMT - Belgium - Security and Crime - SN:68 - ID:5384481
BRUSSELS, Aug 6 (MENA) – Two policewomen were attacked and wounded with a machete by an attacker who shouted “Allahu Akbar” outside a police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday, The Telegraph reported. The attacker was shot by a ....
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Cairo court to consider possible pre-trial freeze on wheat case defendants' assets
Date: 2016-08-06 18:03:58 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:61 - ID:5383885
CAIRO, Aug 6 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court will consider Sunday a demand submitted by the Prosecutor General to impose a pre-trial freeze on the assets of 15 defendants charged with wheat procurement corruption. The prosecution investigations ....
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Former mufti survives attempt on life
Date: 2016-08-05 11:45:32 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:30 - ID:5377681
CAIRO, Aug 5 (MENA) - Former mufti of Egypt Dr. Ali Gomaa has survived an attempt on his life on Friday. Two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at Gomaa as he was entering a mosque in the 6th of October City to perform Friday congregational ....