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  • Foreign, irrigation ministers meet over Nile Basin coordination

    Foreign, irrigation ministers meet over Nile Basin coordination

    Date: 2014-07-16 16:20:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:830797

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Wednesday with Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Hossam El Din Moghazy. The meeting was part of joint coordination between the ministries on issues related to the Nile Basin nations and Nile ....

  • Fact-finding committee says Amnesty rejected to meet it

    Fact-finding committee says Amnesty rejected to meet it

    Date: 2014-07-16 16:19:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:60 - ID:830795

    Foad Riyad, the chairman of an independent committee tasked with gathering information and finding facts on the June 30 revolution, said on Wednesday that the Amnesty International has rejected to meet it. In press statements, Riyad said he sent ....

  • 7 MB members arrested in Alex

    7 MB members arrested in Alex

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:56:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:55 - ID:830743

    Seven Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members were arrested Wednesday in different places here. One of them was nabbed with a large amount of bombs and bullets in his possession. The others were arrested for planning to stage illegal protests in ....

  • Killer, raper of Minya girl referred to Mufti

    Killer, raper of Minya girl referred to Mufti

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:54:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:830754

    Minya Criminal Court referred on Wednesday the death sentence of the killer and the rapper of a five-year-old girl child in Minya to the Mufti of the country to take his opinion. As per the Egyptian law, all death sentences should be first ....

  • No criminal suspicions in drowning of 11 Copts in Ras Ghareb - Minya Diocese

    No criminal suspicions in drowning of 11 Copts in Ras Ghareb - Minya Diocese

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:21:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:830693

    There are no criminal suspicions about the death of 11 Copts, who drowned in the waters of the Red Sea off Ras Ghareb shores near Safaga yesterday, said Minya Coptic Diocese. In a statement Wednesday, the Church further said that thousands of ....

  • Egypt minister says UNDP-funded projects to help in protecting environment

    Egypt minister says UNDP-funded projects to help in protecting environment

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:20:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:830691

    Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy stressed the importance of exploiting projects funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in enacting laws that protect the environment and raising environmental awareness. He made his comments in a ....

  • SEC decides to start preparations for parliamentary elections

    SEC decides to start preparations for parliamentary elections

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:19:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:830689

    Official Spokesman for the Supreme Electoral Commission Medhat Idris said that the panel decided during today's meetings to discuss preparations for the upcoming parliamentary polls. In statements following the first meeting of the panel ....

  • 163 MB members referred to criminal court over killing 29 people in Alex.

    163 MB members referred to criminal court over killing 29 people in Alex.

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:18:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:830687

    Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat decided to refer 163 persons, mostly Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members, including five runaways, to Alexandria Criminal Court over charges of the deliberate murder of 29 people and the attempted murder of another ....

  • FM: Egypt-brokered ceasefire aims to protect Palestinans

    FM: Egypt-brokered ceasefire aims to protect Palestinans

    Date: 2014-07-16 15:14:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:830682

    Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry said his meeting with Middle East peace envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was a good opportunity for floating an Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. In a press conference ....

  • Army seizes 20 rocket launchers in N. Sinai

    Army seizes 20 rocket launchers in N. Sinai

    Date: 2014-07-16 14:28:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:41 - ID:830574

    The Armed Forces have seized 20 rocket launchers in a tunnel and arrested three dangerous takfiri elements in al-Arish city of North Sinai province. Also, some 176 illegal migrants were arrested in the coastal city of Abu Qir. ....

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