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Security measures stepped up around churches in Alexandria on Epiphany feast
Date: 2017-01-18 09:14:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:6355881
Security measures were stepped up around churches in Alexandria governorate on the occasion of the Coptic Epiphany. Surveillance cameras were installed at the entrance to all churches. Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark ....
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Belarus amb. hails positive visit of Belarus president to Egypt
Date: 2017-01-18 08:38:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:6355553
Belarus Ambassador to Egypt Sergei Rachkov highlighted the positive outcome of the recent visit of Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko to Egypt. In statements to MENA on Wednesday, he said the two countries agreed on boosting trade and ....
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Egyptian FM arrives in Bahrain
Date: 2017-01-18 06:32:21 GMT - Bahrain - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6354697
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry arrived in Manama late on Tuesday on a brief visit to Bahrain for talks with King Hamad ben Issa al Khalifa. Shoukry will convey a message from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to the Bahraini ....
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Sisi: My priority is to improve education, health, security, citizens' living standards
Date: 2017-01-17 07:45:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:6348025
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi asserted that his top priority during the coming period of his presidential term is to improve education and health and enhance security and elevate the citizens’ standards of living. In the second part of his ....
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EU opposes shift of US embassy site in Israel
Date: 2017-01-17 07:43:21 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:6348009
European Union foreign ministers on Monday opposed any plan by President-elect Donald Trump to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and warned that it could ratchet up tensions with the Arab world. "It is very important for us all to ....
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Istanbul nightclub massacre gunman 'arrested'
Date: 2017-01-17 07:31:32 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:2 - ID:6347933
The man suspected of carrying out the New Year's Day shooting at an Istanbul nightclub has been arrested. Abdulkadir Masharipov was caught by police officers in the Turkish capital's Esenyurt district, Hurriyet newspaper reported. Daesh ....
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Al Azhar Imam denounces New Valley terror attack
Date: 2017-01-17 06:46:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6347785
Grand Imam of Al Azhar Sheikh Ahmed Al Tayeb denounced Monday night the terrorist attack on a checkpoint in the New Valley governorate. Mourning the victims of the attack, in which a group of attackers targeted the Naqb checkpoint, 70 km away ....
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Sisi: Egyptians achieve in less than 3 years what can be completed in 30 years
Date: 2017-01-16 08:17:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:6341129
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said that what has been achieved by the Egyptian people in less than three years exceeds what can be completed in 30 years. In the first part of his interview with the editors in chief of Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar and ....
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Cairo seeks luring investments to education sector - minister
Date: 2017-01-16 08:15:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:6341109
Investment Minister Dalia Khurshid and Education Minister el Hilali el Sherbini discussed Sunday the challenges facing investors in the sector of international education who operate via American, Canadian, British, German and French ....
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Turkish Airlines cargo plane crashes in Kyrgyzstan, 32 dead
Date: 2017-01-16 07:27:00 GMT - Kyrgyzstan - International - SN:1 - ID:6340893
A cargo plane attempting to land at Kyrgyzstan’s main airport in thick fog crashed in a populated area Monday, authorities at the airport said, leaving at least 32 people dead, The National reported. The majority of the dead are from the nearby ....