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  • Planning, communications ministers probe e-govt role

    Planning, communications ministers probe e-govt role

    Date: 2015-05-29 08:02:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:2688001

    Planning Minister Ashraf el Araby and Communications Minister Khaled Negm probed means to activate e-government services provided to citizens. The e-government aims to offer governmental services online to citizens to help combat corruption and ....

  • Foreign Ministry: 40,000 automated passports issued to Egyptians abroad in weeks

    Foreign Ministry: 40,000 automated passports issued to Egyptians abroad in weeks

    Date: 2015-05-28 16:58:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:2685873

    Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel Aati said the number of automated passports issued to Egyptians abroad during the past six months reached 40,000. In press statements Thursday, he said Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry had issued ....

  • Mahlab visits Petra, Dead Sea area

    Mahlab visits Petra, Dead Sea area

    Date: 2015-05-28 16:57:06 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:2685865

    Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, accompanied by the Jordanian tourism and work ministers, visited the historic Petra city at the end of his visit to the kingdom on Thursday. Mahlab, who led a high-level ministerial delegation, was in ....

  • Mahlab: Any dereliction of duty will not be tolerated

    Mahlab: Any dereliction of duty will not be tolerated

    Date: 2015-05-28 16:55:52 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:2685853

    Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab ordered referring the file of the cables and water pipes, which broke at the desert road recently, to an investigation committee to probe possible dereliction of duty. In statements in Amman in Thursday, he ....

  • Tunisian FM: 30 Tunisians held hostage in Libya released

    Tunisian FM: 30 Tunisians held hostage in Libya released

    Date: 2015-05-28 16:54:08 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:2685849

    Thirty Tunisians taken hostages in Libya were freed, Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche said on Thursday. In statement, Baccouche asserted that his ministry is keen on releasing all Tunisian captives as soon as possible. ....

  • New Suez canal inauguration should not add any burden on state budget - Sisi

    New Suez canal inauguration should not add any burden on state budget - Sisi

    Date: 2015-05-28 16:52:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:2685837

    The New Suez Canal inauguration ceremony should not add any extra burden on state budget. The remark was made by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi during a meeting held on Thursday and attended by Head of Suez Canal Authority Mohab ....

  • Mahlab wraps up Jordan visit

    Mahlab wraps up Jordan visit

    Date: 2015-05-28 16:51:20 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:2685821

    Egypt's Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab left here Thursday, after a two-day visit to Jordan. During the visit, King Abdullah II of Jordan received Mahlab at al Hosseinieh Palace in the presence of Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour. ....

  • Egyptian community of Italy to receive Sisi in Berlin

    Egyptian community of Italy to receive Sisi in Berlin

    Date: 2015-05-28 11:45:48 GMT - Italy - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:2683137

    The Egyptian community in Lazio region and Rome city will join the Egyptian community in Germany to welcome President Abdel Fattah El Sisi after landing in Berlin. In a statement to MENA, Head of the Egyptian Community in Rome Adel Amer said that ....

  • 4 sabotage acts target railway lines, says authority

    4 sabotage acts target railway lines, says authority

    Date: 2015-05-28 11:27:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:2682869

    Four sabotage acts targeted railway lines on Thursday, the Egyptian Railway Authority said. "Three explosions hit Zagazig-Mansoura railway lines, cutting off parts of the rail tracks there," the authority said. It added that another makeshift ....

  • UK will quit EU unless PM's reforms go through, says Philip Hammond

    UK will quit EU unless PM's reforms go through, says Philip Hammond

    Date: 2015-05-28 11:26:26 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:16 - ID:2682861

    Britain will vote to leave the EU unless European leaders agree to a “substantial package of reform” demanded by Prime Minister David Cameron, the foreign secretary has warned as quoted by the BBC. As the prime minister embarked on a two-day tour ....

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