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  • Foreign ministry issues important instructions for Egyptians travelling to Saudi Arabia

    Foreign ministry issues important instructions for Egyptians travelling to Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2015-05-21 15:08:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:2637417

    Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs and Egyptians Abroad Amr Moawad urged Egyptians traveling to Saudi Arabia to perform Umra and Hajj to follow a number of instructions and important tips. In statements Thursday, Moawad warned ....

  • Egypt elected head of executive bureau of Arab information ministers council

    Egypt elected head of executive bureau of Arab information ministers council

    Date: 2015-05-21 14:25:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:2637105

    The Arab Information Ministers Council elected during its 46th session on Thursday Egypt as the head of the executive bureau of the council. UAE will be deputy head of the council. The executive bureau includes also Kuwait, Tunisia, Morocco, ....

  • Sports min. meets Egyptian Nado board

    Sports min. meets Egyptian Nado board

    Date: 2015-05-21 13:42:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:2636637

    Youths and Sports Minister Khaled Abdel Aziz held a meeting with the board of the Egyptian Anti-Doping Organization (Egyptian Nado) chaired by Amr Ezzat on Thursday. The minister approved the organization's plan to set up a program to fight ....

  • Rivlin: whole world heard Netanyahu's commitment to two-state solution

    Rivlin: whole world heard Netanyahu's commitment to two-state solution

    Date: 2015-05-21 13:32:26 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:2636577

    Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Thursday that the whole world heard Netanyahu's commitment to two-state solution, according to JPost. Israel knows the importance of the role that Europe takes in trying to bring the tragedy of the ....

  • Al Azhar urges int'l community to protect Syrian ancient city from Daesh

    Al Azhar urges int'l community to protect Syrian ancient city from Daesh

    Date: 2015-05-21 13:31:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:2636565

    Al Azhar has expressed worries over the the situation in the historic city of Tadmur aka Palmyra in Syria which the terrorist Daesh organization has controlled. Al Azhar said in a statement on Thursday that the international community needs to ....

  • Sisi meets chairman of Saudi power plant developer

    Sisi meets chairman of Saudi power plant developer

    Date: 2015-05-21 12:59:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:2636325

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held a meeting with Chairman of Saudi-based ACWA Power, a power plants operator and developer, Mohammad Abunayan in the presence of Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker on Thursday. The meeting took up steps taken to ....

  • 56 ships transit Suez Canal

    56 ships transit Suez Canal

    Date: 2015-05-21 12:57:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:2636293

    Fifty-six ships transited the Suez Canal Thursday, carrying a total cargo of about 4.230 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 30 vessels carrying 2.258 million tons, while the north-bound convoy included 26 ships carrying 1.971 million ....

  • Sisi decrees approving deal on funding import of basic commodities

    Sisi decrees approving deal on funding import of basic commodities

    Date: 2015-05-21 12:55:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:2636265

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree approving a framework agreement signed with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation during the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in March. Under the agreement, the ....

  • Sisi issued decree to reconstruct Museum of Islamic Art

    Sisi issued decree to reconstruct Museum of Islamic Art

    Date: 2015-05-21 12:15:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:2635905

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued on Thursday a presidential decree approving a 50-million-pound deal with the United Arab Emirates to reconstruct the Museum of Islamic Art. This deal, which was inked on March 24 of 2015, comes as part of ....

  • Sisi meets Austrian FM

    Sisi meets Austrian FM

    Date: 2015-05-21 12:15:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:2635897

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received visiting Austrian European, International and Integration Affairs Sebastian Kurz on Thursday. The top Austrian diplomat expressed happiness for visiting Egypt for the first time and conveyed President Heinz ....

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