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  • Awqaf min.: Ministry has 'upper hand' over mosques

    Awqaf min.: Ministry has 'upper hand' over mosques

    Date: 2014-04-26 13:09:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:688788

    Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa reiterated that the ministry had the legitimate and legal control over the country's mosques under the religious authority of Al-Azhar. Gomaa underlined the ministry's eagerness to keep the mosques away from ....

  • Egypt-Tanzania relations strong except for signing Entebbe agreement, says envoy

    Egypt-Tanzania relations strong except for signing Entebbe agreement, says envoy

    Date: 2014-04-26 12:20:03 GMT - Tanzania - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:688715

    Egypt’s Ambassador to Tanzania Hossam Moharram said the Egyptian-Tanzania relations have been very strong since Egypt extended help to Tanzania’s liberation movements. In press statements on Saturday, Ambassador Moharram asserted that the only ....

  • Trial of 50 MB defendants starts in Qena

    Trial of 50 MB defendants starts in Qena

    Date: 2014-04-26 12:18:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:688507

    The first trial session of 50 terrorist Muslim Brotherhood defendants accused of torturing former police officers in Aswan kicked off on Saturday. The 50, along 25 other fugitives, are accused of rioting and assaulting and torturing former police ....

  • Project for producing solar energy in Egypt to be established - minister

    Project for producing solar energy in Egypt to be established - minister

    Date: 2014-04-26 12:11:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:688700

    Local and Administrative Development Minister Adel Labib announced that the state will implement a giant project during the coming phase for producing solar energy with total cost of one billion dollars. The minister's remark came during ....

  • Secretary of FJP in Alex arrested

    Secretary of FJP in Alex arrested

    Date: 2014-04-26 10:38:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:688497

    Cairo Airport authorities arrested on Saturday Emir of Jamaa Islamia and Secretary of the Freedom and Justice Party in Alexandria before travelling to Malaysia. Mohsen El-Sayyed Bakri was arrested by passport officers before boarding a plane ....

  • Egypt's commitment to road map

    Egypt's commitment to road map "basis" for restoring AU membership - Deputy FM

    Date: 2014-04-26 10:33:52 GMT - Tanzania - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:688483

    Egypt's commitment to implementing the transitional road map is the basis for restoring its membership in the African Union, said Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Ambassador Hamdy Loza. Egypt's is moving toward this path by ....

  • MB organizes three marches in Kafr El-Sheikh

    MB organizes three marches in Kafr El-Sheikh

    Date: 2014-04-26 10:32:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:688478

    A number of loyalists to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group organized on Saturday three marches in Kafr El-Sheikh. The protesters chanted anti-police and army solgans, carried logos of the four-fingered Rabaa salute and photos for deposed ....

  • Homeland security sacred mission - army chief

    Homeland security sacred mission - army chief

    Date: 2014-04-26 10:13:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:688423

    Egypt's national security is a sacred mission and the army is the country's protector, stressed Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and Defense Minister Colonel General Sedqi Sobhi. During a meeting with Third Field Army leaders and personnel on ....

  • Big fire at Gharbiya textile plant under control

    Big fire at Gharbiya textile plant under control

    Date: 2014-04-26 10:07:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:688406

    Firefights contained a huge fire that erupted in a spinning and weaving factory in the Gharbiya city of Mahalla Kubra on Saturday. Three fire engines extinguished the flames with no casualties reported. A crime lab team was dispatched to examine ....

  • Egypt PM attends Tanzan national celebration

    Egypt PM attends Tanzan national celebration

    Date: 2014-04-26 10:07:09 GMT - Tanzania - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:688403

    Visiting Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab attended a celebration marking the 50th union anniversary on Saturday. Mahlab attended the event on behalf of interim President Adly Mansour at the city's Benjamin Mkapa National ....

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