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  • Naval forces arrest 12 on board trawler carrying illegal drugs

    Naval forces arrest 12 on board trawler carrying illegal drugs

    Date: 2016-09-29 15:56:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:5684065

    Maritime forces on Thursday managed to arrest 12 persons on board a fishing boat, carrying amounts of illegal drugs near Sidi Barrani town. The naval troops also rescued a tourist on board a boat in Red Sea Governorate after he had severely ....

  • Irrigation minister probes with new Dutch Amb. in Cairo vistas of joint cooperation

    Irrigation minister probes with new Dutch Amb. in Cairo vistas of joint cooperation

    Date: 2016-09-29 14:00:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:5683289

    Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Atti on Thursday met with the newly-appoined Dutch Ambassador to Egypt Laurens Westhoff. The meeting was held at the behest at the Dutch diplomat and aimed at probing ways of promoting ....

  • Azhar imam greets Sisi on new Islamic year

    Azhar imam greets Sisi on new Islamic year

    Date: 2016-09-29 13:58:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5683261

    Grand Imam of Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Tayyeb on Thursday greeted President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the Egyptian people s well as leaders and governments of the Arab and Muslim worlds on the new Hijri (Islamic) year, which falls on Sunday. Tayyeb urged ....

  • French trade minister heads for Cairo

    French trade minister heads for Cairo

    Date: 2016-09-29 12:38:51 GMT - France - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5682453

    French Minister of State for Foreign Trade Matthias Fekl headed for Cairo on Thursday to meet a host of Egyptian officials. During his visit, Fekl will meet with Egypt's Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Qabil and Housing Minister Mostafa Kamal ....

  • Awqaf min. praises relations between Egypt, Indonesia

    Awqaf min. praises relations between Egypt, Indonesia

    Date: 2016-09-28 07:49:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:5673529

    Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa stressed on Tuesday the depth of relations between Egypt and Indonesia. Delivering a speech at the Indonesian Embassy in Cairo on the occasion of Indonesia's Independence Day, Gomaa called for boosting ....

  • Shimon Peres, former Israeli president, dies aged 93

    Shimon Peres, former Israeli president, dies aged 93

    Date: 2016-09-28 07:45:01 GMT - Israel - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:5673493

    The former Israeli PM and president Shimon Peres, has died aged 93. He suffered a stroke two weeks ago and his condition improved before a sudden deterioration on Tuesday, the BBC reported. His son Chemi led tributes to "one of the founding ....

  • Interior Ministry: Police conscript injured during attempt to steal CIB bank at Sabteya

    Interior Ministry: Police conscript injured during attempt to steal CIB bank at Sabteya

    Date: 2016-09-28 07:42:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5673465

    A police conscript was injured when unknown person tried to storm CIB bank at Cairo's district of Sabteya, said a reliable source at Interior Ministry's media center. In a statement released late Tuesday, the source said an unknown person tried ....

  • MB bid to stage public transport strike in Cairo thwarted

    MB bid to stage public transport strike in Cairo thwarted

    Date: 2016-09-28 06:53:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5673241

    A Muslim Brotherhood bid to incite workers at the Public Transport Authority to stage a strike in Cairo has been foiled. MB elements, who work at the authority, tried to recruit other employees to disrupt the traffic movement to pressure the ....

  • Azhar imam heads for Manama

    Azhar imam heads for Manama

    Date: 2016-09-27 10:18:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:5668149

    Grand Imam of Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Tayyeb headed for Manama on Tuesday on the first leg of a foreign tour that will also take him to Switzerland. In a statement, the Azhar Sheikhdom said Tayyeb, the chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders (MCE), ....

  • PM orders formation of emergency room to deal with rain, floods

    PM orders formation of emergency room to deal with rain, floods

    Date: 2016-09-26 07:42:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:5660889

    Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has ordered the formation of a central emergency room to deal immediately with the consequences of rains and floods starting October 15. The room will be connected with other operations rooms in the governorates to ....

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