Egypt
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Beblawy condemns criminal acts against Copts across Egypt
Date: 2013-08-15 13:13:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:242763
Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy, in a phone call with Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese on Thursday, decried criminal acts committed against Copts across Egypt. During the telephone conversation, the minister ....
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Finance Ministry seeks army helicopter help to put out fire
Date: 2013-08-15 13:07:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:242748
The Finance Ministry urged the Armed Forces on Thursday to send a helicopter to extinguish the fire that has been flaring up at the building as of Wednesday. A ministry source said firefighters are still until now unable to reach the sixth ....
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Foreign Ministry: Qatari statements that protesters were peaceful 'lack of familiarity with reality'
Date: 2013-08-15 13:04:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:242740
The Foreign Ministry said it strongly condemned irresponsible statements issued by the Qatari side that the sit-ins were peaceful, saying these statements reflected the "lack of familiarity with reality". There is no government in the world ....
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Tahrir vigilante groups step up security measures
Date: 2013-08-15 13:02:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:242734
Vigilante groups are stepping up their presence at the entrances of Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square despite the decreasing number of protesters. Also, military troops and security forces increased security measures at the iconic square to ....
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Cairo governor inspects Rabaa al-Adaweyah's clean up process
Date: 2013-08-15 13:01:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:242728
Cairo governor Galal Mostafa Saeed inspected on Thursday a clean up around the Rabaa al-Adaweyah mosque in the Nasr City district of Cairo. "We have cleared 3,000 cubic meters of garbage from the sit-in," the governor said. He said the ....
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Muslim Brotherhood seeks to burn Egypt, presidential adviser says
Date: 2013-08-15 12:53:11 GMT - Tunisia - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:242714
Adviser to the interim Egyptian president Sekina Fouad said the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) plotted to burn Egypt after the group had failed to reinstate Mohamed Morsi. Fouad told the Tunisian newspaper El-Shorouk on Thursday that what took ....
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Health Ministry: Death toll of Wednesday unrest hit 327; 2686 wounded
Date: 2013-08-15 11:06:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:242480
The Health Ministry said the toll of Wednesday's clashes across the country has reached 327 deaths and 2,926 injuries. Ministry spokesman Mohamed Fathallah said out of the 327, 113 died at the Rabaa al-Adawiya camp of Muslim Brotherhood ....
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US embassy decides to close its doors for public services
Date: 2013-08-15 10:53:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:242446
The US Embassy in Cairo deiced to close its doors for public services on Thursday, August 15. In a message via Faceboo, the embassy called on its nationals to avoid protest places. ....
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April 6 movement calls for dissolving Muslim Brotherhood
Date: 2013-08-15 10:50:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:242438
The April 6 movement (Democratic Front) has called for dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood and banning the launch of sectarian political parties. In a statement on Wednesday, the group called for trying Muslim Brotherhood leaders and supporters ....
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Hezbollah has nothing to do with jailbreaks during January 25 uprising: leader
Date: 2013-08-15 10:48:50 GMT - Lebanon - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:242436
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that his group has nothing to do with jailbreaks during Egypt's January 25 revolution. In an interview with Lebanese television station Al-Mayadeen, Nasrallah said Hezbollah's member Sami Shehab was freed ....