English webnews

  • Service : English
  • Sisi meets int'l cooperation min.

    Sisi meets int'l cooperation min.

    Date: 2015-07-08 15:03:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:2945885

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held on Wednesday a meeting with Minister of International Cooperation Naglaa El Ahwany to discuss loans signed by the government. Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef said the president called for channeling such ....

  • Jets of Arab-led coalition bomb Houthis sites in Yemen

    Jets of Arab-led coalition bomb Houthis sites in Yemen

    Date: 2015-07-08 15:02:23 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:2945873

    Jets of Arab-led coalition pounded several sites affiliated to the Houthis and former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. An Arab-led coalition has launched a campaign since March against Houthis and army units loyal to Saleh, in an ....

  • Homemade bomb goes off near Sharqiya police station

    Homemade bomb goes off near Sharqiya police station

    Date: 2015-07-08 15:01:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:2945865

    A homemade bomb went off Wednesday near a police station in Sharqiya. The bomb smashed the windows and facades of a number of buildings and houses. No causalities were reported. Bomb disposal experts rushed to the scene and combed the ....

  • Metro movement in line 2 resumed

    Metro movement in line 2 resumed

    Date: 2015-07-08 10:51:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:2943253

    Metro traffic in line 2 resumed on Wednesday after a nine-minute hiatus caused by the fall of two people on the metro tracks. A girl lost her balance while standing on the edge of the sidewalk of Cairo university metro station and one of the ....

  • Tax Authority: Tax arrears of Petroleum, CBE, Suez Canal hit EGP 35 bn

    Tax Authority: Tax arrears of Petroleum, CBE, Suez Canal hit EGP 35 bn

    Date: 2015-07-08 10:46:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:2943229

    Chairman of the Egyptian Tax Authority Abdel Moniem Matar said tax arrears of the General Authority for Petroleum, the Central Bank of Egypt and Suez Canal reached EGP 35 billion, noting that the authority is scheduled to collect such taxes in the ....

  • Military Spokesman: 13 terrorists arrested in central Sinai

    Military Spokesman: 13 terrorists arrested in central Sinai

    Date: 2015-07-08 09:11:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:2942381

    Army Spokesman Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said 13 terrorist elements were arrested in Khariza district in central Sinai. In a statement released on Wednesday, the army spokesman said the Third Field Army troops raided a hideout for dangerous ....

  • Shoukry meets EUNAVFOR MED commander

    Shoukry meets EUNAVFOR MED commander

    Date: 2015-07-08 08:01:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:2941981

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Wednesday with Operation Commander of EUNAVFOR MED Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ambassador Badr Abdel Aati said Shoukry greeted the EU commander on his new post and wished him ....

  • Assistant FM meets with African ambs in Cairo over recent terrorist attacks

    Assistant FM meets with African ambs in Cairo over recent terrorist attacks

    Date: 2015-07-08 07:57:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2941949

    Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Sabry Magdy Sabry met with African ambassadors accredited to Egypt to review the latest home developments on the heels of the terrorist attacks that took place in North Sinai and the assassination of ....

  • New Foreign Ministry spokesman named

    New Foreign Ministry spokesman named

    Date: 2015-07-08 07:57:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2941945

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry named on Wednesday counselor Ahmed Abu Zeid as the ministry's new spokesman in succession of Badr Abdel Aati who was nominated to serve as Egypt's ambassador to Germany. Abu Zeid, who will also supervise the ....

  • Spokesperson for US State Department says extending talks with Iran

    Spokesperson for US State Department says extending talks with Iran "practical step"

    Date: 2015-07-08 07:56:09 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2941937

    The spokesperson for the US State Department John Kirby has said that extending negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program is a practical step. "I think this was a practical step that needed to be taken, and it was taken," John Kirby said in ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD