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Prosecution issues gag order in foreign funding case
Date: 2015-06-28 18:12:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:2882901
Prosecutor General Hisam Barakat issued a gag order on the case known in the media as foreign funding case. The gag order covers all mass and electronic media. The media and press can only publish statements issued by the prosecution office ....
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Presidential decree raises military pensions 10%
Date: 2015-06-28 18:12:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:2882897
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree to raise military pensions 10% starting from July 1. The presidential decree amends some provisions of Army Law 90 of 1975 on retirement, insurance and pensions. The pension increase will not have ....
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Arab League chief to meet Russian FM in Moscow
Date: 2015-06-28 18:11:31 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:2882873
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el Araby will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his upcoming visit to Moscow in early July, he said in an interview with Sputnik on Sunday. The secretary general said the meeting will take ....
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Azhar imam meets Awqaf minister to review training programs for imams
Date: 2015-06-28 18:11:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:2882885
Al Azhar Grand Imam Dr Ahmed el Tayyeb met Sunday with Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa to review plans of Awqaf Ministry to train imams through organizing courses throughout Egypt after Eidul-Fitr vacation. In a statement by the Awqaf ....
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Abbas discusses cultural issues with number of Palestinian writers
Date: 2015-06-28 18:10:53 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:2882881
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received Sunday a delegation of the General Union of Palestinian Writers (GUPW) and Palestinian writers' union in the occupied territories. Abbas lauded accrediting the Palestinian writers' in the occupied ....
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Mahlab chairs ministerial meeting on urban communities
Date: 2015-06-28 12:40:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:2880789
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab chaired on Sunday a ministerial meeting to discuss a proposal to establish integrated urban communities across the nation. The meeting was attended by the ministers of agriculture and scientific research as well as ....
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Egypt's bourse wins 3.5 billion pounds
Date: 2015-06-28 12:33:47 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:29 - ID:2880857
The Egyptian Exchange started this week trading with gains amounting to EGP 3.5 billion and its indexes were all up. The capital market climbed to EGP 489.6 billion. The benchmark index EGX 30 rose by 1.26 percent to 8511,98 points. The ....
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Czech PM calls meeting of National Security Council
Date: 2015-06-28 12:04:32 GMT - Czech - International - SN:27 - ID:2880577
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has called a meeting of the National Security Council on Sunday evening to assess the latest developments and potential threats to the security of the country, Radio Prague reported. The illegal migrants' ....
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Sisi receives credentials of 11 new ambassadors
Date: 2015-06-28 12:03:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2878733
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received on Sunday the credentials of 11 new ambassadors, Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef said. The new diplomats represent Zambia, Ukraine, Colombia, Brazil, Cyprus, Australia, Vatican, India, Panama, Pakistan ....
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AL official condemns Friday's terror attacks in Kuwait, Tunisia
Date: 2015-06-28 11:14:37 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:2880149
Secretary General of the Arab League's Council of Arab Economic Unity Mohamad Al Rabie on Sunday condemned a suicide bombing that targeted a Kuwaiti mosque and a terror attack hat targeted two Tunisian resorts on Friday. In statements to MENA, Al ....