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  • Court: Holders of double nationality have right to run in parlt polls

    Court: Holders of double nationality have right to run in parlt polls

    Date: 2015-03-07 10:55:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:2106677

    Egypt's top court has ruled that depriving double-nationality citizens from running in parliamentary polls is unconstitutional. During a hearing session on Saturday, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that Article 8 of the House of ....

  • Man guilty of throwing children from Alex. building rooftop executed

    Man guilty of throwing children from Alex. building rooftop executed

    Date: 2015-03-07 10:48:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:2107557

    A man was found guilty of pushing young boys off the rooftop of a building in Alexandria during violent incidents in July 2013 was executed by hanging on Saturday. Mahmoud Hassan Ramadan was sentenced to death during a court hearing in May and ....

  • Suez Port police foil attempts to smuggle firecrackers into country

    Suez Port police foil attempts to smuggle firecrackers into country

    Date: 2015-03-07 10:06:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:2107173

    Suez Port police have foiled an attempt to smuggle a huge quantity of firecrackers, white weapons and aphrodisiacs into the country. Acting on a tip that a paints company owned by Salem M. M. was hiding items to be smuggled into the country in an ....

  • 33 killed, injured in microbus collision in Sharqiya

    33 killed, injured in microbus collision in Sharqiya

    Date: 2015-03-07 09:52:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:2106857

    Two workers were killed and 31 others injured when two micro-buses collided in Sharqiya Saturday. The accident occurred due to high-speed driving. One of the microbuses is owned by a factory in the tenth of Ramadan. The two bodies and the ....

  • Finance, business center to be presented during Sharm el Sheikh conf. - minister

    Finance, business center to be presented during Sharm el Sheikh conf. - minister

    Date: 2015-03-07 09:20:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:2106825

    The finance and business center in the Sixth of October and Sheikh Zayed cities will be presented during Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC), which will be held in Sharm el Sheikh on March 13-15, said Housing Minister Mostafa ....

  • Death toll in Mahala bomb blast raises to 2 - health ministry official

    Death toll in Mahala bomb blast raises to 2 - health ministry official

    Date: 2015-03-07 09:04:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:2106325

    The death toll of Mahala bomb blast, which took place yesterday, raised to two, said Gharbiya health directorate on Saturday. The bomb went off yesterday in front of the branch of Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region. In statements ....

  • African environment ministers issue Cairo Declaration

    African environment ministers issue Cairo Declaration

    Date: 2015-03-07 08:38:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2106077

    The 15th African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), held on March 2-6 in Cairo, has issued the "Cairo Declaration" to reiterate Africa's commitment to reaching an obligatory agreement on climate change, Environment Minister Khaled ....

  • Sisi to meet US lawmakers

    Sisi to meet US lawmakers

    Date: 2015-03-07 07:54:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:2106021

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will receive Saturday a visiting delegation from the US House of Representatives. Presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef made the announcement Saturday. ....

  • 5 persons arrested in connection with Mahala Kobra bombing

    5 persons arrested in connection with Mahala Kobra bombing

    Date: 2015-03-07 07:46:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:2105941

    Five persons have been arrested in an alleged connection with Friday's bombing that rocked el Mahala el Kobra city in Gharbiya governorate, a security source said Saturday. The explosion, which occurred Friday night outside a bank on Shoukry el ....

  • Al Azhar mourns victims of train-bus collision

    Al Azhar mourns victims of train-bus collision

    Date: 2015-03-06 19:16:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:2104821

    Al Azhar on Friday mourned the victims of a Cairo-Ismailia road accident that left seven school students dead and scores injured. In a statement, the highest Sunni authority in the world called on the concerned bodies to develop an urgent ....

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