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Fire from gas pipeline blast controlled
Date: 2014-01-01 07:48:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:472781
Fire from a gas pipeline blast in Central Sinai has been controlled after closing the valves to shut off the flow of gas to and from it. The pipeline was blown up by militants on Tuesday night. Officials said a committee will be formed to ....
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SIS: Freedom of speech guaranteed by law
Date: 2014-01-01 07:47:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:472780
Egypt's State Information Services (SIS) asserted Tuesday that no international journalists are targeted by the state. and the freedom of speech was guaranteed by law. Following news reports fanned on the arrest of four foreign journalists in ....
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Security maintained in Azhar Univ. through coop. of security bodies
Date: 2014-01-01 07:45:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:472777
Al-Azhar University has contained the riots thanks to the cooperation between security guards and the police forces, security chief of the campus Maj.-Gen. Magdy Abbas has said. Tight control of ins and outs of the university led to an overall ....
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Border tunnels, house in Rafah destroyed
Date: 2014-01-01 07:37:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:472766
Four tunnels and a house used in smuggling have been demolished during a wide-scale security campaign in the border city of Rafah, a security source said Tuesday. Security campaigns are ongoing on the border city to stop smuggling, added the ....
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Morsi-era presidential spokesman Yasser Ali arrested
Date: 2014-01-01 07:36:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:472763
Security forces arrested Yassir Ali, a terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leader and former presidential spokesman of Mohamed Morsi. Ali was hiding in an apartment in El-Mokattam neighborhood in Cairo when he was captured, a security source told ....
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MB, FJP member disavows membership in terrorist group
Date: 2014-01-01 07:34:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:472760
A member of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party, rendered his resignation Tuesday from the terrorist group in Toukh, Qalubiya. Lottfi Fathy, 50, reported to his nearby police station saying ....
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Gunmen blast gas pipeline in Sinai
Date: 2014-01-01 07:33:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:472756
Unidentified assailants exploded a natural gas pipeline in Sinai, security sources said on Tuesday. The attack took place in the central part of Sinai against a pipeline that carries natural gas to the industrial area. The pipeline was ....
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Azhar Imam greets Egyptians on New Year
Date: 2014-01-01 07:31:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:472754
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyeb greeted the Egyptian people on the New Year. The Grand Imam is scheduled to visit the St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasseya on Saturday to greet Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark ....
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Mansour studying which elections to be conducted first -- Presidency
Date: 2013-12-31 19:06:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:472498
Interim president Adly Mansour is currently studying whether to hold the presidential election before parliamentary polls. A statement by the presidency said Tuesday that Mansour will take into consideration the outcome of a societal dialogue ....
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Antiquities minister rules out renting ancient sites
Date: 2013-12-31 17:10:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:472342
Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim denied Tuesday that a UAE company would rent or be granted a franchise for running monumental sites as claimed by media reports. A UAE-based company has expressed its interest in developing some ancient ....
