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  • 683 fire arms seized during security campaign

    683 fire arms seized during security campaign

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:51:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:2671389

    As many as 683 unlicensed fire arms have been seized as part of wide-scale security campaigns across Egypt. Three workshops manufacturing fire arms have also been detected. Eight wanted suspects have been arrested over the past six ....

  • Cabinet approves contracts with Siemens

    Cabinet approves contracts with Siemens

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:49:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:2670781

    The Cabinet approved Tuesday a contract to be signed between the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company and Siemens Global to establish, import and install three combined-cycle power plants at a total capacity of 14,400 megawatts annually. The ....

  • Preparatory meetings for 25th Egyptian-Jordanian committee kick off in Amman

    Preparatory meetings for 25th Egyptian-Jordanian committee kick off in Amman

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:31:57 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:2671257

    Preparatory meetings for the 25th Egyptian-Jordanian higher committee kicked off here Tuesday. Egypt's International Cooperation Minister Naglaa el Ahwani and Jordanian Trade Minister Maha Ali are co-chairing the meetings. Ten agreements and ....

  • Sisi meets GE official on electricity projects

    Sisi meets GE official on electricity projects

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:27:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:55 - ID:2671245

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met on Tuesday with Chairman of General Electric (GE) Power and Water sector Steve Bolze. The meeting was attended by Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker and US Ambassador to Egypt Stephen Beecroft. Presidential ....

  • Sisi discusses security, price control measures with interior minister

    Sisi discusses security, price control measures with interior minister

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:26:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:2671233

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held a meeting Tuesday with Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar to discuss efforts exerted to maintain security and control prices. During the meeting, Abdel-Ghaffar briefed the president with latest security ....

  • Sisi answers citizens' questions sent by mail in monthly address

    Sisi answers citizens' questions sent by mail in monthly address

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:24:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:2671225

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will answer citizens' questions and inquiries during his monthly address, the presidential information office said Tuesday. The citizens' questions will be received by new created email address ....

  • France's Fabius says anti-Daesh coalition must be reinforced

    France's Fabius says anti-Daesh coalition must be reinforced

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:22:53 GMT - France - International - SN:52 - ID:2671205

    Iraq and Syria risk further division if international efforts to tackle ISIS aka Daesh militants there are not stepped up quickly, France warned Tuesday. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, speaking ahead of a June 2 meeting in Paris of nations ....

  • Russian minister calls for providing privileges for Russian industries in Egypt

    Russian minister calls for providing privileges for Russian industries in Egypt

    Date: 2015-05-26 17:20:39 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:51 - ID:2671189

    Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov on Tuesday said the current Egyptian-Russian talks aim to create the conditions to enhance bilateral cooperation. In statements at the end of the commercial industrial dialogue between Egypt ....

  • Joint Chiefs Chairman says U.S. blindsided by fall of Mosul

    Joint Chiefs Chairman says U.S. blindsided by fall of Mosul

    Date: 2015-05-26 16:51:43 GMT - USA - International - SN:50 - ID:2670989

    Outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey admits in a new interview that the U.S. military had done no contingency planning to prepare for the fall of Mosul when Daesh terrorists swept into Iraq’s second-largest city last June and ....

  • Six Saudis killed, wounded by shell from Yemen

    Six Saudis killed, wounded by shell from Yemen

    Date: 2015-05-26 16:48:57 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:2670221

    One Saudi citizen was killed and five others were wounded when a shell fell on a residential area in Najaran. The media spokesman for the civil defense forces in Najran said the wounded were rushed to hospital while measures were taken to bring ....

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