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13 killed in road accident on Beni Suef highway
Date: 2015-05-30 07:45:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:2692461
Thirteen people were killed late Friday when a police vehicle collided with a truck on Beni Suef-Minya highway. Eleven policemen were among the fatalities, said a security official. ....
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Security, traffic campaigns launched nationwide
Date: 2015-05-29 19:59:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:2691689
Security forces launched several campaigns nationwide to arrest outlaws and fugitives. A total of 27,295 convicted in criminal cases have been arrested. Also, 106 firearms and 200 cold steels were seized while six gangs were arrested. As ....
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Rafah crossing closes after opened for three days
Date: 2015-05-29 19:52:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:2691641
Rafah border crossing closed on Friday after it exceptionally opened for three days to allow the stranded and humanitarian cases and aid supplies into the Gaza Strip. As many as 1,413 stranded Palestinians crossed the terminal into the Gaza Strip ....
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Azhar imam condemns Saudi Shiite mosque blast
Date: 2015-05-29 19:51:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:2691633
Al Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb on Friday condemned a suicide attack outside a Shiite mosque in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, during Friday prayers. "Bloodshed is forbidden and houses of worship should be distanced from conflicts," Tayyeb ....
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Journalist Hamdan Tawfiq dies at age of 58
Date: 2015-05-29 13:37:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:2689989
Journalist Hamdan Tawfiq died on Friday at the age of 58. The veteran reporter, who served as a correspondent for the Middle East News Agency (MENA) in Yemen, Ramallah and Tunisia, joined the state-run news agency in 1981, where he worked at ....
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PM meets UAE presidential adviser
Date: 2015-05-29 12:13:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:2689405
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab received visiting Adviser to the UAE President Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa al Nahyan on Friday. The meeting took up a number of agreements that had been signed during the Egypt Economic Development Conference in March ....
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Egypt preparing plan for Paris climate change event – min.
Date: 2015-05-29 11:47:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:2689249
Egypt is preparing a plan regarding its climate change commitments in order to float it during the Paris Climate Change Conference, which will take place in December, Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy said. Speaking to MENA, Fahmy said Egypt, the ....
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Libyan, Algerian FMs arrive in Cairo
Date: 2015-05-29 10:38:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2688825
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed al Dairi and Algerian Foreign Minister Ramadan Lamamra arrived here Friday coming from Kuwait. Both ministers took part in the 42nd round of the foreign ministers council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation ....
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Planning, communications ministers probe e-govt role
Date: 2015-05-29 08:02:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:2688001
Planning Minister Ashraf el Araby and Communications Minister Khaled Negm probed means to activate e-government services provided to citizens. The e-government aims to offer governmental services online to citizens to help combat corruption and ....
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Foreign Ministry: 40,000 automated passports issued to Egyptians abroad in weeks
Date: 2015-05-28 16:58:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:2685873
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel Aati said the number of automated passports issued to Egyptians abroad during the past six months reached 40,000. In press statements Thursday, he said Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry had issued ....