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  • Azhar backs women's role in society - Tayyib

    Azhar backs women's role in society - Tayyib

    Date: 2013-04-14 14:12:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:63713

    Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed el-Tayyib stressed  Sunday that Al-Azhar backs the role of Egyptian women in the society in conformity with the Islamic Sharia that gave them many rights.        He underlined the ....

  • Matrouh Police seize missiles, anti-aircraft bullets

    Matrouh Police seize missiles, anti-aircraft bullets

    Date: 2013-04-14 13:44:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:63654

    Security bodies seized 15 rockets and 39 anti-aircraft bullets in Marsa Matrouh governorate.    The arms, that also include two rocket heads, were seized at Kilo 20 on Matrouh-Alexandria desert road.    Shocked to see a ....

  • Counselor Abdel Maguid denies directing question to president on twitter

    Counselor Abdel Maguid denies directing question to president on twitter

    Date: 2013-04-14 13:26:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:63611

    Former prosecutor general Counselor Adel-Maguid Mahmoud denied news reports that he has directed a question to President Mohammad Morsi on the crisis of the prosecutor general via twitter, terming such reports as groundless.    In ....

  • Judge of Mubarak case quit over medical reasons – lawyer

    Judge of Mubarak case quit over medical reasons – lawyer

    Date: 2013-04-14 12:49:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:63524

    Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah has withdrawn from the retrial of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak for medical reasons, Mubarak's lawyer Farid El-Deeb told CNN on Saturday..    Abdullah "submitted a medical report to the head of ....

  • Ground services workers at Cairo Airport threaten to strike

    Ground services workers at Cairo Airport threaten to strike

    Date: 2013-04-14 12:43:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:63513

    Dozens of ground services workers at Cairo International Airport threatened to hold a strike if their demands were not fulfilled.    They call for paying allowance of foreign companies' revenues and raising insurance allowance as well as ....

  • NGO condemns PM statements in Qatar

    NGO condemns PM statements in Qatar

    Date: 2013-04-14 11:53:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:63415

    The committee for defending press independence on Saturday lashed out at Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil's recent statements in Qatar.    During his meeting with Egyptian expats in Qatar on Wednesday, Qandil urged Egyptians to follow ....

  • Egypt President visits Russia Friday

    Egypt President visits Russia Friday

    Date: 2013-04-14 11:52:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:63414

    Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi will visit Russia on Friday at an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin, well-placed sources said Saturday.      During the two-day visit, Morsi and Putin will hold talks on means of ....

  • Egyptian delegation arrives in Sanaa

    Egyptian delegation arrives in Sanaa

    Date: 2013-04-13 12:56:21 GMT - Yemen - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:62184

    A high-level Egyptian delegation arrived in Sanaa Saturday on a several days' visit to Yemen.    The 5-member delegation includes Chairman of the General Organization for Export and Import Control Mohamed Shafiq and Chairman of the ....

  • Calm prevails around Police Academy before start of Mubarak re-trial

    Calm prevails around Police Academy before start of Mubarak re-trial

    Date: 2013-04-13 12:28:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:62143

    Calm prevailed Saturday around the Police Academy in New Cairo where the re-trial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, fugitive businessman Hussein Salem, ex-interior minister Habib el-Adli and six of his top aides, are ....

  • US says concerned over Egyptian draft NGO law

    US says concerned over Egyptian draft NGO law

    Date: 2013-04-13 12:26:06 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:62139

    The United Stated voiced concern on Friday about a draft law on NGOs in Egypt. "We are deeply concerned with draft legislation that would severely restrict the ability of NGOs to work in Egypt," US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell ....

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