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Sisi orders increasing sales tax on cigarettes by 50%
Date: 2015-02-22 17:53:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:2021325
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued on Sunday a presidential decree increasing the sales tax on local and imported cigarettes. According to the decree, the tax on local and imported cigarettes will be pushed up by 50 percent. ....
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PM says govt keen to help university hospitals restore role in society
Date: 2015-02-22 17:51:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:2021301
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Sunday said the government is keen to help university hospitals restore their role in the society. He said all state bodies are exerting efforts for developing college hospitals. Mahlab made his comments during ....
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PM meets girls keen to join army
Date: 2015-02-22 13:31:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:2019529
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab met representatives of a campaign called "Egyptian female conscripts" on Sunday. Mahlab said the president had received telegraphs from some girls urging him to accept female conscripts in the army. The president had ....
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Foreign ministry intensifies contacts over Egyptians in Libya, says spokesman
Date: 2015-02-22 13:30:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:2019505
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has intensified its contacts with various ministries and agencies concerned to ensure the safe return of Egyptians from Libya. Coordination is underway with the crisis room, which was set up to follow up the ....
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HEC: 7,416 parliament hopeful to compete in coming elections
Date: 2015-02-22 13:10:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:2017849
The Higher Election Committee (HEC) led by Counselor Ayman Abbas said the number of parliament hopefuls reached 7,416 who will compete to win seats whether in the party-based lists or as individuals. Spokesman for HEC Counselor Omar Marawan ....
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Cairo governor: Al Asmarat project to serve slum dwellers in El Mokattam
Date: 2015-02-22 13:07:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:2019233
Cairo Governor Galal Mostafa announced on Sunday that the Al Asmarat housing project in the neighborhood of El Mokattam would serve only the inhabitants of slum areas. The project, funded by the Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) Fund, aims to provide ....
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215 MBs of Helwan Brigades referred to criminal court
Date: 2015-02-22 13:04:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:2019193
Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat Sunday referred 215 members of terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members to criminal court for trial. They face charges of forming the Helwan Brigades which committed crimes against police and their ....
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Nile Basin minister plant saplings in Khartoum school
Date: 2015-02-22 11:46:01 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:2018369
Nile Basin water resources ministers planted several saplings, each representing a Nile country, at a school in Khartoum on Sunday as a symbol of the future of the young generation. Egyptian Water Resources Minister Hossam Moghazi said the young ....
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FM meets Sudanese presidential aide
Date: 2015-02-22 11:42:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:2018337
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Sunday with Sudanese Presidential aide Abdel Rahman Sadek Mahdi for talks on boosting bilateral cooperation. The two sides underlined the importance of holding the Egyptian-Sudanese higher committee, ....
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Pope Tawadros II receives cable of condolences
Date: 2015-02-22 11:41:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:2018293
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the St. Mark Diocese Sunday received a cable of condolences from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, over the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya last week by the terrorist Daesh ....
