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Sisi appreciates Cypriot cooperation to end plane's hijacking
Date: 2016-03-29 17:07:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:4614061
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Tuesday phoned his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades. During the phone call, Sisi expressed sincere thanks and appreciation for the leadership and the Government of Cyprus for providing full support and ....
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Azhar imam: Islam rejects hideous crimes committed against women
Date: 2016-03-29 16:22:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:4613781
Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb said on Tuesday that Islam rejects all types of slavery and does not approve girls’ abduction and other hideous crimes committed against women. This came during meeting with visiting Special Representative of UN ....
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Plane hijack crisis ends well - PM
Date: 2016-03-29 13:51:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:4612209
The plane hijack crisis has ended safely and the government is following up the developments closely, Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said. The plane’s Egyptian passengers will be brought back home from Cyprus as soon as possible, the prime minister ....
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All hostages of hijacked plane freed, hijacker arrested
Date: 2016-03-29 12:16:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:4611477
All hostages of hijacked Egyptian plane were released and the hijacker was arrested, EgyptAir said in a statement Tuesday. Earlier, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry announced that the hijacked Egyptian plane situation is over and its hijacker has ....
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Immigration min. confers with parents of Egyptian students detained in Sudan
Date: 2016-03-29 11:34:56 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:4610893
Immigration Minister Nabila Makram met on Tuesday with a number of parents of the Egyptian students, currently detained in Sudan over charges of collective cheating in the secondary stage exams. During the meeting, Makram asserted Egypt's ....
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Identity of EgyptAir hijacker revealed
Date: 2016-03-29 08:54:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:4609041
Egyptian security agencies have managed to reveal the identity of the hijacker of the EgyptAir passenger plane, well-placed sources said on Tuesday. The Egyptian man, Ibrahim Samaha, was sitting on seat no. 38k, according to the sources. ....
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EgyptAir plane hijacked, forced to land in Cyprus
Date: 2016-03-29 08:36:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:4608845
An EgyptAir Airbus A320, carrying 56 passengers, seven crew members and a security guard on board, was hijacked on Tuesday and forced to land in Cyprus. A well-placed source at Egypt's flag carrier airline said in a statement that flight MS181 ....
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Sisi sacks Accountability State Authority chief
Date: 2016-03-29 08:18:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4608693
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree sacking head of the Accountability State Authority (ASA) Hisham Geneina as of Monday. Hisham Badawy has been named acting head of the authority, according to well-informed sources. The CAO is a ....
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Works on providing utilities networks to administrative capital to start next week - minister
Date: 2016-03-28 12:20:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:4603369
Works related to providing utilities networks to the administrative capital will start next week, said Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouli. During his meeting with officials of construction companies assigned to deliver utilities to the new ....
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Lawmaker denies meeting Israeli ambassador in Cairo
Date: 2016-03-28 07:21:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:4600597
Egyptian lawmaker Amin Massoud denied reports on meeting the Israeli ambassador in Cairo. In a statement released on Monday, Massoud said the photos released by Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid district lawmaker Ibrahim Abu Shuaera on his meeting with the ....