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  • Security forces carry out large-scale security campaigns nationwide

    Security forces carry out large-scale security campaigns nationwide

    Date: 2015-06-24 11:25:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:2855753

    Security forces carried out large-scale security campaigns to restore security and order on Egyptian streets nationwide. The campaigns, launched upon directives from Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghafar, resulted in seizing 940 arms of various ....

  • FM presses for unified vision toward neighborhood policy with EU

    FM presses for unified vision toward neighborhood policy with EU

    Date: 2015-06-24 11:18:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:2855689

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has stressed the importance of reaching an Arab consensus on the neighborhood policy with the EU. He pressed for issuing a unified Arab paper to that effect, adding that the paper should also take into consideration ....

  • Social solidarity min. mulls expanding social protection umbrella for seasonal labor

    Social solidarity min. mulls expanding social protection umbrella for seasonal labor

    Date: 2015-06-24 10:22:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:2855125

    Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali met Wednesday with Board Chairman of the Egyptian Federation For Construction & Building Contractors (EFCBC) Hassan Abdel Aziza and a number of board members to discuss expanding social protection umbrella ....

  • 22 terrorists killed by army in North Sinai

    22 terrorists killed by army in North Sinai

    Date: 2015-06-24 09:13:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:2854521

    The Armed Forces carried out attacks against three hideouts of terrorist elements in North Sinai, said Army Spokesman Mohammad Samir. The attacks targeted the districts of Ubeidat, Kharouba and Shadaydah in Sheikh Zuweid. The army troops ....

  • Trial of 4 MB members on violence charges adjourned until June 30

    Trial of 4 MB members on violence charges adjourned until June 30

    Date: 2015-06-24 09:04:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:2854433

    The military court in Daqahliya Wednesday adjourned until June 30 the trial of four members of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of detonating an electrical transformer in Talkha city. Police had arrested Fat'hi A. A., Yassin S. Y., Khaled H. and ....

  • Rafah crossing open for 2nd day in row

    Rafah crossing open for 2nd day in row

    Date: 2015-06-24 08:54:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:2854361

    The Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip remained open on both sides Wednesday for the second day in a row to allow stranded Palestinians and aid supplies into the coastal enclave. The Egyptian authorities had agreed to re-open the crossing ....

  • 2 non-commissioned officers injured in fire exchange with outlaws in Qalubiya

    2 non-commissioned officers injured in fire exchange with outlaws in Qalubiya

    Date: 2015-06-24 08:46:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:2854229

    Two non-commissioned officers were injured in a fire exchange between security forces and two dangerous outlaws in Qanatar, Qalubiya, on Wednesday. The outlaws, who were arrested for possessing unlicensed weapons and using them in armed robbery, ....

  • Environment minister orders cement factories to establish projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

    Environment minister orders cement factories to establish projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

    Date: 2015-06-24 08:41:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2854181

    The environment minister has ordered cement factories which will use coal in industry to establish projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Factories had submitted 19 studies on the impact of using coal on the the environment but the ....

  • Sisi receives ministers of irrigation, agriculture today

    Sisi receives ministers of irrigation, agriculture today

    Date: 2015-06-24 08:34:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2854117

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi meets later Wednesday with Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi and Agriculture Minister Salah el-Din Helal, presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said. ....

  • UN official visits

    UN official visits "safe cities" project in Imbaba

    Date: 2015-06-24 08:32:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:2854093

    UN Assistant Secretary General Yannick Glemarec will visit Egypt on Thursday to visit “safe cities” project in Imbaba district. Glemarec, who also serves as Deputy Executive Director for Policy and Programme at United Nations Entity for Gender ....

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