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  • Morsi trial delayed until Feb 22

    Morsi trial delayed until Feb 22

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:49:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:525487

    Once again the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi has been adjourned; this time until February 22. Morsi and 130 co-defendants are facing charges of kidnapping policemen and holding them hostage in Gaza. They are also accused of ....

  • Slain interior ministry official laid to rest

    Slain interior ministry official laid to rest

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:28:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:525409

    General Mohamed Saeed, head of the technical office of the Interior Ministry, was laid to rest Tuesday. His funeral started from the Police Academy Mosque in Abbassiya amid chants against the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group. Saeed was shot ....

  • Cairo governor congratulates Sisi on promotion to field marshal

    Cairo governor congratulates Sisi on promotion to field marshal

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:22:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:525069

    Cairo Governor Galal el-Said on Tuesday sent a cable to Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi congratulating him on his promotion to field marshal under Monday's presidential decree. The governor wished Sisi more success in serving the ....

  • Presidency mourns assassination of Interior Ministry official

    Presidency mourns assassination of Interior Ministry official

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:20:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:525392

    The Egyptian Presidency has mourned the assassination of a senior Interior Ministry official earlier Tuesday. General Mohamed Saeed, head of the technical office of the Interior Ministry, was shot dead outside his home in Haram district of Giza ....

  • Matrouh security chief denies news of plot to blow up security directorate

    Matrouh security chief denies news of plot to blow up security directorate

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:14:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:525322

    Matrouh security chief has denied reports alleging that the city's national security apparatus received information about a plan to blow up the headquarters of Matrouh Security Directorate. In statements on Tuesday, General Anani Hamouda said ....

  • Morsi throws tantrum inside courtroom

    Morsi throws tantrum inside courtroom

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:12:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:525373

    The air inside a Cairo courtroom was tense as the first session of the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and 130 others in the highly-publicized jailbreak case began on Tuesday. Morsi and his co-defendants who showed up in the cage for the ....

  • Transport, aviation ministers meet Canadian amb., CEO of Bombardier

    Transport, aviation ministers meet Canadian amb., CEO of Bombardier

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:09:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:525364

    Transport Minister Ibrahim el-Deimiri and Aviation Minister Abdel-Aziz Fadel met Tuesday with Canadian Ambassador here David Drake and Pierre Beaudoin, CEO of Bombardier, a Canadian company manufacturing planes and trains, to discuss means of ....

  • OIC condemns Cairo blasts

    OIC condemns Cairo blasts

    Date: 2014-01-28 14:04:04 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:525349

    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Tuesday condemned terrorist blasts that rocked Cairo Saturday and killed and injured scores of people. The bombings also caused damage to government buildings. A statement by OIC Secretary General ....

  • Bomb defused outside High Court of Justice

    Bomb defused outside High Court of Justice

    Date: 2014-01-28 13:50:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:525304

    Security forces managed Tuesday to defuse an explosive device that was planted outside the High Court of Justice. In the meantime, security forces arrested 17 members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group during clashes that erupted on ....

  • Trial of Morsi resumes on charges of prison break

    Trial of Morsi resumes on charges of prison break

    Date: 2014-01-28 13:42:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:525169

    The trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi resumed here Tuesday on charges of prison break. Morsi and 21 others are held provisionally on charges of storming Egyptian prisons in the wake of the January 25 Revolution three years ago. The ....

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