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Shoukry meets Sierra Leone FM
Date: 2015-04-11 11:22:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:2357101
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his visiting Sierra Leonean counterpart Samura Kamara Saturday. The meeting took up means of promoting bilateral relations in the various spheres. They also probing regional and international issues of ....
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Court steps down in retrial of former information min. over graft charges
Date: 2015-04-11 10:58:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:2356861
Cairo Criminal Court decided Saturday to step down in the retrial of former information minister Anas el Fiqi over charges of illegal profiteering. The court also decided to refer the case to Cairo Appeals Court to determine another judicial ....
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PM, Cairo governor open Moasaset el Zakah Corridor
Date: 2015-04-11 10:23:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:2356537
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab opened Saturday Moasaset el Zakah Corridor in the presence of Cairo Governor Mostafa Saeed and Local Development Minister Adel Labib. The newly-opened Corridor cost more than 150 million pounds. Mahlab also ....
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Sisi greets pope on Easter
Date: 2015-04-11 10:03:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:2356289
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi sent a cable of greetings to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese over Eastern Christian Easter. The president also greeted Egyptian Copts living abroad on the occasion. He dispatched ....
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Zend re-runs for Judges’ Club chairmanship
Date: 2015-04-11 10:00:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:2356273
Chairman of the Judges’ Club Ahmed el Zend filed his nomination papers to run for the club’s board chairmanship for the third time in a row. Candidacy for the election of a new chairman and 16 board members of the Judges' Club opened Saturday and ....
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Egypt FM to head for Barcelona Sunday to attend meeting on ENP
Date: 2015-04-11 09:34:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:2356105
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head for Barcelona Sunday to attend the consultative meeting of European Union countries with the Southern Mediterranean countries on the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). The meeting will be held with the ....
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Badie, 13 MB members sentenced to death in "Rabaa operations room" case
Date: 2015-04-11 09:04:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2355889
Giza Criminal Court sentenced to death Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide, and 13 other leading members of the group, for inciting murder in the case known as "Rabaa operations room." Two of the defendants were sentenced in ....
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Blast hits electric transformer in Cairo
Date: 2015-04-11 09:01:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2355857
An electric transformer in Zahraa Maadi, Cairo, was hit by a sound causing object Friday, a source in Interior Ministry told MENA. No casualties were reported, the source. ....
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Huge fire erupted in 11 houses in Luxor; no casualties
Date: 2015-04-11 08:39:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2355593
Luxor civil defense forces on Friday contained a huge fire that erupted in 11 houses in Madamoud village. No casualties were reported. The fire erupted in a house surface and extended to the other houses. ....
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US calls in both S. Korean, Japanese ambassadors
Date: 2015-04-11 08:33:14 GMT - south korea - International - SN:7 - ID:2355529
US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman called in both the South Korean and the Japanese ambassadors to Washington for separate meetings in a possible sign that the US is stepping up efforts to help improve relations between the two key Asian ....