Egypt
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Army hands out relief assistance to Upper Egypt villages
Date: 2015-01-20 13:48:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:1783909
Minister of Defense Colonel General Sedki Sobhi on Tuesday ordered preparing trucks loaded with scores of thousands of blankets and food stuff to be handed out to the poor in the most needy areas in Upper Egypt. The move came in accordance with ....
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Security forces seize firearm, 100 bullets in N. Sinai
Date: 2015-01-20 13:30:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:1783717
Security forces seized on Tuesday a firearm and 100 bullets inside a sack in North Sinai governorate. This came as part of the security campaign launched in the governorate to seize the unlicensed firearms, a security source said. It added ....
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Court decides suspending looking into lawsuit against protest law until verifying its constitutionality
Date: 2015-01-20 12:57:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:1783325
The Administrative Justice Court at the State Council on Tuesday issued a ruling suspending looking into a lawsuit calling for rescinding the Protest Law until verifying the constitutionality of the law in question. Several lawyers had filed the ....
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Parliamentary candidates to undergo medical tests before running in elections
Date: 2015-01-20 12:51:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:1783237
Candidates running in Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections should undergo medical examinations in line with a term set by the administrative court Tuesday. The court stressed the importance that all candidates be in good health. A lawyer ....
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Home-made bomb defused in Damietta
Date: 2015-01-20 12:43:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:1783153
Bomb experts on Tuesday managed to defuse an explosive charge found in front of the Damietta Post Office. Damietta security directorate received a report that a dubious object was planted in front of the main post office. Squads moved ....
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Cairo University forms consultancy committee of seasoned Egyptian scientists
Date: 2015-01-20 12:35:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:1783053
Cairo University has decided to form a consultancy committee of seasoned Egyptian scientists at home and abroad with to provide experienced ideas and strategies that help pushing up the university's scale in the scientific research. President of ....
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Young man commits suicide by jumping on metro train tracks
Date: 2015-01-20 12:13:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:1782865
A young man was killed Tuesday after jumping on the tracks of an oncoming metro train at Gamal Abdel Nasser Station. Spokesman for the metro authority Ahmed Abdel Hadi told MENA that movement along the Marg-Helwan subway line was halted for 10 ....
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Theodoros II invites Sisi, Mahlab to open Mar Girgis Monastery
Date: 2015-01-20 12:03:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:1782797
Pope Theodoros II, Greek Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, invited President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to attend the opening of Mar Girgis Monastery on April 24, voicing hope that the ceremony ....
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Rafah exceptionally opened for three days
Date: 2015-01-20 10:14:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:1781809
Rafah terminal was exceptionally opened for three days, allowing the crossing of a number of passengers from both sides, a reliable source at the terminal said Tuesday. The Egyptian authorities approved the opening of the terminal to allow ....
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Mahlab orders formation of higher national committee on bird flu
Date: 2015-01-20 10:13:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:1781797
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Tuesday issued a decision to form the higher national committee for following up the bird flu under the chairmanship of Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation. The committee includes the local development, ....