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  • Interior minister orders investigation into storming journalist's home

    Interior minister orders investigation into storming journalist's home

    Date: 2015-08-01 18:56:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:3082901

    Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar ordered an investigation into a police officer's raiding of a journalist's home without any reason, the Ministry of the Interior informed Journalists' Syndicate Chief Yahia Qallash. The officer, from Dar ....

  • Sisi, national security council discuss plan to secure new Suez Canal inauguration

    Sisi, national security council discuss plan to secure new Suez Canal inauguration

    Date: 2015-08-01 18:56:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:3082813

    President Abel Fattah El Sisi met on Saturday with the national security council which comprises the prime minister and the defense, finance, foreign, interior ministers along with the army's chief of staff, the general intelligence head, the army's ....

  • Assistant interior minister inspects security checkpoints in Suez

    Assistant interior minister inspects security checkpoints in Suez

    Date: 2015-08-01 13:47:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:3081597

    Assistant Minister of Interior Maj. General Sameikh Abu Shady toured on Saturday the security checkpoints in Suez city and the southern entrance to the Suez Canal ahead of the inauguration ceremony planned to be held on August 6. The assistant ....

  • PM at Ismailia general hospital to check on preparations ahead of canal inauguration ceremony

    PM at Ismailia general hospital to check on preparations ahead of canal inauguration ceremony

    Date: 2015-08-01 10:57:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:3080209

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab visited the Ismailia General Hospital on Saturday to get firsthand information about preparations inside Health Ministry hospitals ahead of the inauguration of the New Suez Canal. Health Minister Adel Adawi toured ....

  • MB plans to destabilize homeland through 'factional demands' -- minister

    MB plans to destabilize homeland through 'factional demands' -- minister

    Date: 2015-08-01 07:54:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:3078877

    Awqaf (Endowments) Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa warned on Friday that the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood is targeting the stability and security of the homeland by encouraging "factional demands", urging the Egyptians to keep united in face of ....

  • 215 Egyptians back home from Libya over past 24 hours

    215 Egyptians back home from Libya over past 24 hours

    Date: 2015-08-01 07:34:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:3078805

    Up to 215 Egyptians returned home from Libya via Salloum crossing over the past 24 hours. According to Matrouh security chief Major General Hisham Lotfy, 164 of them have arrived legally while 51 ones have arrived illegally. ....

  • Army officer back home after therapeutic trip in London

    Army officer back home after therapeutic trip in London

    Date: 2015-08-01 07:33:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:3078797

    Cairo airport received on Saturday morning one of the Egyptian army officers who has been abroad for medical treatment after sustaining wounds in Sinai operations. Captain Amr Abdel Raouf returned home from London after receiving medical ....

  • Investment minister attends ceremony of handing over Nile Hilton to Nile Ritz-Carlton

    Investment minister attends ceremony of handing over Nile Hilton to Nile Ritz-Carlton

    Date: 2015-07-31 07:30:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:3074149

    Investment Minister Ashraf Salman took part Thursday in a ceremony marking the handover of the historic Nile Hilton to the Nile Ritz-Carlton. Since 1959, the hotel, located across Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, has been operating as a Nile ....

  • New Suez Canal dug in record time: Mamish

    New Suez Canal dug in record time: Mamish

    Date: 2015-07-31 07:28:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:3074137

    The new Suez Canal has been dug in a record time, said head of Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish. "Egypt has now the fastest fairway in the world as the new canal will reduce crossing hours to 11 instead of 18," Mamish said in press statements on ....

  • Finance Ministry mulls prices of New Suez Canal commemorative coins

    Finance Ministry mulls prices of New Suez Canal commemorative coins

    Date: 2015-07-31 07:27:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:3074129

    The Finance Ministry is studying the appropriate prices of the commemorative coin that will be issued on the occasion of the inauguration of the New Suez Canal, slated for August 6, an official said. The Egyptian Mint Authority will offer the ....

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