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  • Petra Kvitova thrashes Eugenie Bouchard final in Wimbledon

    Date: 2014-07-05 14:56:13 GMT - United Kingdom - Sports - SN:67 - ID:812901

    LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - Petra Kvitova swept past Canada's Eugenie Bouchard with a stunning performance of controlled power to win her second Wimbledon title, the BBC Sport reported. The Czech sixth seed reclaimed the title she first won in 2011 ....

  • Colombia gives workers time off to watch World Cup match

    Date: 2014-07-03 15:23:18 GMT - Colombia - Sports - SN:107 - ID:810002

    BOGOTA, July 3 (MENA) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has given government workers Friday afternoon off to watch the national team play Brazil in the quarter-finals of the football World Cup. The president will fly to Brazil to watch the ....

  • Egypt, Palestine youth ministers discuss ways of boosting mutual cooperation

    Date: 2014-07-03 11:58:13 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:53 - ID:809631

    CAIRO, July 3 (MENA) – Egypt's Youth Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz and his Palestinian counterpart Jibril Rajoub, who currently visits Egypt, have discussed ways of fostering the bilateral cooperation in the fields of youth and sports during the ....

  • PM to honor Egyptian players for winning African Youth Games

    Date: 2014-07-01 13:26:28 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:53 - ID:806657

    CAIRO, July 1 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, Youth and Sports Minister Khaled Abdel Aziz, and Olympic Committee President Khaled Zein are scheduled Wednesday to honor Egyptian players who won 2014 African Youth Games in Botswana. Egypt's ....

  • Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi resigns after world cup xit

    Date: 2014-07-01 07:19:12 GMT - Nigeria - Sports - SN:6 - ID:805923

    ABUJA, July 1 (MENA) - Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has stepped down from his position after the Super Eagles' exit from the World Cup in Brazil, BBC Sport reported. France scored twice in the last 11 minutes in Brasilia on Monday to reach the ....

  • Egypt wins Africa Championship for Table Tennis in Nigeria

    Date: 2014-06-29 08:55:09 GMT - Nigeria - Sports - SN:25 - ID:803093

    ABUJA, June 29 (MENA) - Egyptian player Dina Meshref won the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)-Africa Cup for Women that was held late Saturday in Lagos, Nigeria's capital. Head of the Egyptian Federation of Table Tennis Alaa Meshraf ....

  • Nigeria players pay tribute to bomb blast victims

    Date: 2014-06-19 16:04:53 GMT - Nigeria - Sports - SN:86 - ID:787202

    ABUJA, June 19 (MENA) - Nigeria's footballers have said that a bomb attack that killed at least 21 people watching a World Cup game in their country gives them added determination to do well in Brazil. The bomb exploded in the midst of a crowd ....

  • Egypt's amb. to Ethiopia hosts sports meeting

    Date: 2014-06-18 22:06:24 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:159 - ID:785863

    CAIRO, June 18 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador to Ethiopia Mohamed Idris host a meeting between Egyptian and Ethiopian boxes Ahmed Saeed and Sammy Retta respectively in presence of a number of local and foreign media outlets. A press conference was ....

  • Interpol calls for criminal inquiry into 2022 bids

    Date: 2014-06-15 12:36:22 GMT - United Kingdom - Sports - SN:63 - ID:778997

    LONDON, June 15 (MENA) - Interpol, the international police organization, this weekend called for an investigation into criminal corruption in the 2022 World Cup bidding process, wrote Jon Ungoed-Thomas in the Sunday Times Sunday. Interpol has ....

  • Egypt handball team loses 33-31 before world stars in friendly

    Date: 2014-06-13 20:11:41 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:118 - ID:776600

    CAIRO, June 13 (MENA) – The Egyptian national handball team was defeated by a team of world stars 33-31 during a friendly which was played on Friday in favor of the Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt (CCHE 57357). The game was played at Cairo ....

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