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  • Electricity minister discusses mechanisms to distribute LED lamps

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:45:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:818885

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Electricity and Energy Minister Mohamed Shaker discussed here Wednesday with leaderships of electricity companies mechanisms to distribute LED lamps, which contribute to rationalizing consumption by about 90 percent. The ....

  • Evangelical Church head calls for establishing donor fund for power

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:29:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:818832

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Head of the Evangelical Church Reverend Safwat el-Bayadi called on church officials to establish a donation fund at churches under the name of "Support Power" to back Egypt's economy. In a statement released on Wednesday, ....

  • Obama intervenes in disputed Afghan presidential election

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:27:24 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:25 - ID:818829

    KABUL, July 9 (MENA) – As tensions escalated following the release of preliminary vote results, the US President Barack Obama has asked the runoff presidential candidates to allow the process for investigating fraud claims to go forward. In an ....

  • Egypt foreign debt hits $45.3 bn in March - CBE

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:27:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:818816

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Egypt's foreign debts increased by 4.8 per cent to reach $45.3 billion in March, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said on Wednesday. The increase of the exchange rate of the majority of currencies against the US dollar ....

  • FM winds up visit to Jordan, visits Kuwait carrying message from Sisi to Emir

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:17:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:818814

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri had talks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and Premier Abdullah Ensour as part of continuous consultations between the two countries over various regional issues, said Foreign Ministry ....

  • Japan lodges protest with Chinese paper for carrying map showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima, Nagasaki

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:15:54 GMT - Japan - World - SN:22 - ID:818817

    TOKYO, July 9 (MENA) - Japan has lodged a protest with a Chinese weekly paper for carrying a map of Japan showing mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the top government spokesman said Wednesday, Kyodo reported. "We lodged a strong ....

  • OIC foreign ministers to discuss Israeli aggression against Palestinians

    Date: 2014-07-09 10:08:17 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:818759

    JEDDAH, July 9 (MENA) - The executive committee of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold Wednesday an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers to discuss ways to confront the Israeli military aggression against the ....

  • Cabinet discusses number of reports, important files

    Date: 2014-07-09 09:55:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:818769

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - The cabinet held a meeting on Wednesday under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to discuss a number of political, economic and social fields. The cabinet will discuss a report on the security and economic situation in the wake ....

  • Hamas decides to go for broke: Israeli paper

    Date: 2014-07-09 09:52:07 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:818760

    GAZA CITY, July 9 (MENA) – Struggling to maintain the banner of ‘resistance’, the Gazan group is firing at Israel in the hope Ramallah and Cairo will hear its plea for help, the Times of Israel paper reported. The paper said "Isolated by Israel, ....

  • Israel's deputy defense minister demands Israel cut off fuel, electricity supply to Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-09 09:43:00 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:818708

    GAZA CITY, July 9 (MENA) - Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon called on the government Wednesday to immediately cut off fuel and electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported. “It is inconceivable that on the one hand we ....

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