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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....