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  • Egypt's Beltone expects new tax reforms under new budget

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:54:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:127 - ID:797399

    CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) - Egypt's Beltone Financial Holding said President Abdel Fatah El Sisi's refusal to endorse the new budget will be translated into reforms in the taxation sector, the minimum wage and the fuel subsidies. In a research paper ....

  • Sisi's visit launches new era of Egypt-Algeria ties: Spokesman

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:49:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:126 - ID:797709

    ALGIERS, June 25 (MENA) – The recent visit of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to Algeria launches a new era of a stable and strategic relationship between Egypt and Algeria, said Presidency Spokesman Ihab Badawy. The talks between two ....

  • Delegation of ELBA to visit Beirut

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:46:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:125 - ID:797633

    CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) – A delegation of the board of the Egyptian-Lebanese Businessmen Friendship Association (ELBA) would embark on Wednesday upon a three-day visit to Beirut. The delegation is led by chairman of the association Fathallah Fawzy. ....

  • 6 defendants get jail terms over violence charges

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:40:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:124 - ID:797695

    MINYA, Upper Egypt, June 25 (MENA) - Minya Criminal Court on Wednesday handed down jail terms ranging between three to six years to six defendants over violence charges. Another was acquitted. The same court set an October session for ....

  • FM maintains meetings on sidelines of African Foreign Ministers Executive Council session

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:39:23 GMT - Guinea - Africa - SN:123 - ID:797692

    MALABO, June 25 (MENA) – Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry maintained his meetings on Wednesday on the sidelines of the African Foreign Ministers Executive Council session ahead of the African Summit, slated for June 26-27. Within this ....

  • Sufis condemn metro blasts

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:24:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:122 - ID:797693

    CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) - Head of the Supreme Council of Sufi Orders Abdel-Hady Qasaby condemned on Wednesday the five terrorist explosions that rocked Egypt early in the day. Six people were injured in five attacks that targeted four metro ....

  • FAO: Iraq faces serious food security concerns

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:23:12 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:121 - ID:797638

    CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) – Iraq is facing serious food security concerns following the recent escalation of conflict in a large swath of the country, FAO warned on Wednesday. Over one million people so far have fled their homes and farms since ....

  • Sudan summons US ambassador over Christian woman

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:15:14 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:120 - ID:797471

    KHARTOUM, June 25 (MENA) – Sudan's foreign ministry summoned the US and the South Sudanese ambassadors after a Sudanese woman tried to leave the country after she was freed from death row. The ministry said the woman tried to leave with ....

  • Dick Cheney says Iraq war "right thing"

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:14:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:119 - ID:797641

    WASHINGTON, June 25 (MENA) - US Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday stood by the Bush Administration’s decision to wage war in Iraq. Cheney said "I was a strong advocate of going into Iraq, I think that was the right decision then, and I ....

  • Businessman Abul Enein donates 250 million pounds for setting up vocational schools

    Date: 2014-06-25 15:11:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:118 - ID:797637

    CAIRO, June 25 (MENA) – Egyptian businessman Mohamed Abul Enein on Wednesday said he will donate 250 million pounds to be channeled into setting up vocational schools that serve all Egypt's provincial governorates. The step comes in response to a ....

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