Egypt
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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, ....
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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, ....