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  • Dollar exchange rate stable at major banks

    Dollar exchange rate stable at major banks

    Date: 2017-03-30 10:02:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:6744221

    The exchange rate of US dollar was stable during morning trading on Thursday. The US dollar recorded EGP 18.00 for buying and EGP 18.10 for selling at the National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr and Banque du Caire. In the Commercial International ....

  • Syrian opposition accuses army of shelling Qaboun district with chlorine gas

    Syrian opposition accuses army of shelling Qaboun district with chlorine gas

    Date: 2017-03-30 08:46:27 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6744037

    The opposition local council accused the Syrian army of shelling al Qaboun district in Damascus with explosive barrels containing chlorine gas. The council said scores of civilian were injured and a number opposition fighters suffered ....

  • Sisi meets Sarraj on sidelines of Arab summit: Spokesman

    Sisi meets Sarraj on sidelines of Arab summit: Spokesman

    Date: 2017-03-30 07:06:15 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6743907

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez al Sarraj on the sidelines of the 28th Arab Summit in Jordan, Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef said on Wednesday. The president reaffirmed Cairo’s keenness ....

  • Investment minister, Japan amb. confer on boosting economic cooperation

    Investment minister, Japan amb. confer on boosting economic cooperation

    Date: 2017-03-29 09:10:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:6742205

    Investment and International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr met Wednesday with Japanese Ambassador to Egypt Takehiro Kagawa to discuss means of boosting economic cooperation between the two countries. Nasr said Cairo greatly appreciates Tokyo's ....

  • Shoukry participates in four-way meeting in Jordan ahead of Arab summit

    Shoukry participates in four-way meeting in Jordan ahead of Arab summit

    Date: 2017-03-29 09:08:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:6742202

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry participated early Wednesday in the Dead Sea in a quartet meeting with officials from Jordan, Palestine and the EU. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Twitter that the meeting came at a Jordanian ....

  • Russian top official holds  intensive talks with Arab leaders ahead of Arab summit

    Russian top official holds intensive talks with Arab leaders ahead of Arab summit

    Date: 2017-03-29 08:16:47 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:6742076

    The Russian President's Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held a series of tete-a-tete meetings with Arab leaders ahead of the Arab summit due to open in Jordan later Wednesday. In ....

  • Small fire put out in Luxor farm area

    Small fire put out in Luxor farm area

    Date: 2017-03-29 08:14:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:6742071

    Civil protection units put out a fire early Wednesday that erupted in a palm tree farm near Boghdadi Bridge south of Luxor. Head of the Luxor Municipality Ahmed Tarek said the fire broke out in a number of palm trees in an area very distant from ....

  • Moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem puts end to peace process - Erekat

    Moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem puts end to peace process - Erekat

    Date: 2017-03-29 08:13:09 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6742069

    Palestinian chief negotiator Sa'eb Erekat warned that moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would destroy the peace process. In statements to Alhurra news channel on Wednesday, Erekat said he raised the issue during contacts with the ....

  • Interior Ministry:prisoner Ahmed el Khatib receives adequate medical care

    Interior Ministry:prisoner Ahmed el Khatib receives adequate medical care

    Date: 2017-03-29 08:12:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6742067

    The Interior Ministry said that prisoner Ahmed el Khatib, who is currently under medical supervision in Cairo's Abbassia Fever Hospital, is receiving all medical care. In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry added that Interior Minister Magdy ....

  • UN calls for releasing 28 staff detained in Syria

    UN calls for releasing 28 staff detained in Syria

    Date: 2017-03-28 07:27:47 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:6740235

    The United Nations marked the International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members with a renewed call for the immediate release or information of over two dozen staff still being held in detention or missing in Syria, a statement ....

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