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Awqaf min. denies disagreements with Azhar chief
Date: 2015-02-05 12:57:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:1901693
Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa denied reports about differences between him and Al Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb. During a press conference Thursday, Gomaa announced the formation of a higher committee to renew the religious discourse ....
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Mufti of Lebanon lauds Egypt's role in defending Arab world
Date: 2015-02-05 11:58:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:1901005
Mufti of Lebanon Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian lauded on Thursday the pioneering role of Egypt under the wise leadership of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and its honest efforts in defending the Arab and Islamic world. Derian, during a meeting with ....
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Trade & industry ministry adopts plan to develop exhibitions system - minister
Date: 2015-02-05 11:55:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:1900965
The Trade and Industry Ministry adopts an ambitious plan to develop the exhibitions system, which is considered an important industry for all countries, said Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour. He, meanwhile, said that holding international ....
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Egypt urges Arab-intl efforts against terrorism
Date: 2015-02-05 11:30:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:1900641
Egypt has urged Arab countries and the international community to unite against all forms of terrorism and extremist thought. Addressing an advisory meeting of the Arab League Council held at the permanent representatives' level, Egypt's delegate ....
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Court upholds death, life sentences in Alex children throwing case
Date: 2015-02-05 09:47:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:1899561
The Cassation Court upheld on Thursday the death and life sentences issued against 57 Muslim Brotherhood defendants over throwing children off a roof in July following the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi. The court turned down the defendants' ....
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Azhar scholar says Abu Bakr al-Siddiq has never burnt anyone to death
Date: 2015-02-05 09:11:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:1899193
Head of Al Azhar Research Academy Mohi Eddin Afifi asserted that Abu Bakr al Siddiq has never burnt anyone to death as Daesh said in its issued Fatwa in a bid to justify the burning the Jordanian pilot Moaz al Kasasbeh. In a press release on ....
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Egypt urges Arab states to adopt tougher anti-terror in March meeting
Date: 2015-02-05 08:17:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:1898757
Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs Abdul Rahman Salah and Minister Plenipotentiary Karim Haggag held a meeting on Wednesday with ambassadors accredited to Cairo. The meeting took up measures adopted by the Egyptian government to ....
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Shoukry leads OIC delegation in Norway
Date: 2015-02-05 08:14:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:1898725
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is heading a ministerial delegation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) now in Norway to mobilize support for the Palestinian cause, the ministry's spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti said. The ....
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Solidarity against terror is must: Alexandria gov.
Date: 2015-02-05 08:00:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:1898585
Alexandria Governor Tarek Mahdi on Wednesday called for solidarity against terrorism. Mahdi made his remarks at a meeting with French Consul General in Alexandria Dominique Waag and a French member of parliament. The meeting tackled ways to ....
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KFC restaurant fire claims one life
Date: 2015-02-05 07:57:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:1898561
One worker was killed and another wounded when unidentified men set fire to a KFC fast food restaurant on the Cairo/Alexandria agricultural road in Qwesina of Menouifia on Thursday and fled away. The gunmen threw Molotov cocktail bottles at the ....