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  • FM heads for Beirut

    FM heads for Beirut

    Date: 2016-08-16 07:09:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:5435049

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry left Cairo late Monday heading for Beirut on a three-day visit to Lebanon to probe ways to enhance bilateral relations in the various domains. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said the visit aims to assert ....

  • PM mourns victims of Dakahliya road accident

    PM mourns victims of Dakahliya road accident

    Date: 2016-08-16 06:54:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:5435001

    Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has mourned the victims of a deadly road accident that left 22 people dead in Dakahliya, north of Cairo, on Monday. The premier offers condolences to the families of the victims and wishes speedy recovery for the ....

  • 15 Guantanamo detainees sent to United Arab Emirates

    15 Guantanamo detainees sent to United Arab Emirates

    Date: 2016-08-16 06:48:55 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:5434977

    The Pentagon has transferred 15 Guantanamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates, the largest transfer of detainees during the Obama administration. The transfer reduces to 61 the number of detainees still held at the detention facility and is ....

  • Trump says to work with Sisi, King Abdullah in counter-terror efforts

    Trump says to work with Sisi, King Abdullah in counter-terror efforts

    Date: 2016-08-16 06:46:10 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:5434949

    US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that if he is elected president he will cooperate with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan in counter-terror efforts as they have clear policy that reject the ....

  • Sisi attends opening of biggest petrochemicals complex in Alex.

    Sisi attends opening of biggest petrochemicals complex in Alex.

    Date: 2016-08-13 10:39:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5420113

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi attended Saturday the opening of ETHYDCO; the biggest petrochemicals complex in Egypt and the Middle East in Alexandria governorate. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail and Petroleum and Mineral Wealth Minister Tarek el ....

  • 4 killed, scores injured in bomb attack in Turkey's Diyarbakir city

    4 killed, scores injured in bomb attack in Turkey's Diyarbakir city

    Date: 2016-08-11 09:28:25 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:7 - ID:5409533

    Four people were killed in a bomb attack in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, the ABC News Reported. According to a Turkish official, the explosion targeted a police bus and injured up to 13 people. The attack took place hours a way from ....

  • Jordan's PM hails Egypt's regional role

    Jordan's PM hails Egypt's regional role

    Date: 2016-08-11 09:23:36 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:5409481

    Jordan's Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki asserted on Wednesday the importance of Egypt's regional role and historic status in the Arab and Islamic worlds. He hailed as deeply-rooted the relations under the leadership of King Abdullah II of Jordan ....

  • Sisi re-allocates state-owned lands for national, service projects

    Sisi re-allocates state-owned lands for national, service projects

    Date: 2016-08-11 09:02:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:5409353

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a presidential decree re-allocating 107.5 feddans of state-owned lands west of Port Said to the National Service Products Organization (NSPO) to establish fisheries. Sisi re-allocated pieces of state-owned ....

  • US decries Daesh 'genocide' of Christians, Shiites, Yazidis

    US decries Daesh 'genocide' of Christians, Shiites, Yazidis

    Date: 2016-08-11 08:52:41 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:5409277

    The United States on Wednesday denounced the "genocide" carried out by Daesh group against Christians, Shiites and Yazidis, as the State Department unveiled its somber annual report on religious freedom around the world. This past March, US State ....

  • Egypt wins second bronze medal in weightlifting in Rio Games

    Egypt wins second bronze medal in weightlifting in Rio Games

    Date: 2016-08-11 08:44:50 GMT - Brazil - Sport - SN:3 - ID:5409185

    Egyptian weightlifter Mohamed Ihab won Egypt’s second bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 77kg men’s weightlifting event. Ihab, who managed to lift 361kg, came in third place, scoring Egypt’s second bronze medal in the Rio Olympics after ....

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