Egypt
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Transport minister chairs workshop on national project to develop railway system
Date: 2014-04-07 11:58:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:654368
Transport Minister Ibrahim el-Demiri held Monday a workshop with a host of media persons to brief them on the ministry's viewpoint on the national project to overhaul Egypt's outdated railway system. The workshop aims to give a chance to the ....
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Mahlab chairs ministerial economic group meeting
Date: 2014-04-07 11:41:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:654316
The ministerial economic group convened here on Monday under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to tackle the economic and financial file in general and the government's plan to develop the economy in the near future. Mahlab held a meeting earlier ....
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Fahmy meets coordinator of Syria chemical weapons mission
Date: 2014-04-07 11:33:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:654282
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy met here Monday with the UN official who is coordinating oversight of the chemical destruction effort in Syria, Sigrid Kaag. Kaag reviewed efforts exerted by the mission to implement its tasks, according to the UN ....
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Border guards arrest criminals
Date: 2014-04-07 11:28:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:654256
Second Field Army troops seized two fishing boats and two vehicles carrying 5.5 tons of diesel and seven pump machines at Port Said harbor in a smuggling attempt by sea on Monday. The subsidized diesel was to be smuggled on board cargo ....
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PM decision on application of maximum wage limit published in official gazette
Date: 2014-04-07 11:20:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:654238
Egypt's official gazette published the decision of Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to put into effect the maximum limit of wages for employees of the public sector. Under decision number 549 of 2014, the total allowances of any public servant ....
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Fahmy meets UNSMIL head
Date: 2014-04-07 11:12:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:43 - ID:654207
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy received on Monday Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Tarek Mitri and his accompanying delegation. The meeting took up the latest Libyan developments and the UN official's ....
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Social solidarity: 15 organizations applied for following up presidential polls
Date: 2014-04-07 10:42:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:654114
Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali said Monday the ministry has received 15 applications by organizations wishing to follow up the presidential elections, slated for May 26-27. At a press conference held at the ministry premises on Monday, ....
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Justice ministry forms operations room for presidential polls
Date: 2014-04-07 10:38:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:654108
The justice ministry has formed an operations room to follow up the upcoming presidential elections. The room will coordinate efforts with the elections commission and other concerned ministres. Its formation came upon a decision of the ....
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Court turns down 3 activists' appeal into their jail sentences
Date: 2014-04-07 10:17:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:654046
Abdine Court turned down on Monday an appeal filed by activists Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Duma and Mohamed Adel against their three-year jail sentence. The court upheld the verdicts and fined each of them 50,000 pounds for assaulting policemen charged ....
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Calm prevails in Shobra El-Kheima after bomb found near school complex
Date: 2014-04-07 10:08:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:654015
Calm prevailed in Bahteen district of Shobra El-Kheima on Monday after security bodies managed to defuse a locally-made bomb found near Abu Bakr Al-Sediq school complex. Chief Prosecutor of Shobra El-Kheima ordered the bomb to be sent to criminal ....