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  • Salloum border crossing closed as of today

    Salloum border crossing closed as of today

    Date: 2014-10-01 08:44:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:1048101

    Matrouh security chief Al-Annani Hamouda said the Salloum border crossing between Egypt and Libya will be closed as of Wednesday and till the end of Eidul Adha holiday. The closure comes at the request of the Libyan authorities, he said in press ....

  • Sound bomb explodes on Kafr el-Zayyat bridge

    Sound bomb explodes on Kafr el-Zayyat bridge

    Date: 2014-10-01 08:01:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:1047729

    A sound bomb went off on Kafr el-Zayyat Bridge early Wednesday, Gharbiya police chief Ossama Bedeir said. No casualties were reported, Bedeir said. Sappers are currently combing the bridge and the surrounding area in search for any strange ....

  • Egyptian worker mistakenly killed in Benghazi

    Egyptian worker mistakenly killed in Benghazi

    Date: 2014-10-01 08:00:50 GMT - Libya - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:1047721

    An Egyptian worker was killed after being caught in a gun battle between warring militants in Benghazi, a health official said on Wednesday. The man was shot while he was passing at an area where militants were fighting, the official ....

  • Huge fire at petrol statio contained in Gharbiya

    Huge fire at petrol statio contained in Gharbiya

    Date: 2014-10-01 07:46:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:1047585

    Civil defense forces put out a huge fire that ripped through a fuel station in a Gharbiya village. The fire destroyed the entire station and left three nearby houses in the village and an oil truck burned. While the truck was unloading its ....

  • 6 Takfiri elements killed in N. Sinai

    6 Takfiri elements killed in N. Sinai

    Date: 2014-10-01 07:42:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:1047553

    North Sinai security forces killed six Takfiri elements and arrested 12 suspects, security sources said Tuesday. During a wide-scale crackdown targeting the entrances and exits of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the security forces also seized a machine ....

  • Shoukri: Obama not ask Sisi to release foreign journalists

    Shoukri: Obama not ask Sisi to release foreign journalists

    Date: 2014-10-01 07:41:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:1047549

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri said on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama did not ask President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to release detained foreign journalists in Egypt. The foreign minister made the remarks Tuesday during a meeting organized ....

  • Mahlab inaugurates road dev't project at Cairo's Ein El Hayah, Fustat districts

    Mahlab inaugurates road dev't project at Cairo's Ein El Hayah, Fustat districts

    Date: 2014-10-01 07:26:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:1047457

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab inaugurated on Tuesday a development project of roads linking the areas of Ein El Hayah and Fustat in Cairo. The development operations will also extend to cover the areas of Amr ibn El-as Mosque, and the Religion ....

  • Only Turks can evaluate their leaders: Shoukri

    Only Turks can evaluate their leaders: Shoukri

    Date: 2014-09-30 19:01:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:1046269

    "Only the Turkish people are entitled to evaluate their leaders, and Egypt does not interfere in others' internal affairs," Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri said on Tuesday. "Egypt does not mix Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's personal ....

  • PM vows to solve fertilizer firms' problems

    PM vows to solve fertilizer firms' problems

    Date: 2014-09-30 19:00:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:1045973

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has pledged to solve problems facing fertilizer companies, noting that his government seeks to boost fertilizers production in Egypt. This came during a meeting Tuesday with ministers of industry, finance, ....

  • Egypt elected to host 2015 IOSCO meet

    Egypt elected to host 2015 IOSCO meet

    Date: 2014-09-30 18:36:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:55 - ID:1046129

    Egypt has been elected to host the 40th annual meeting of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) in April 2015. The 39th meeting of the IOSCO kicked off on Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A voting was carried out, ....

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