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Defense minister approves new batch of army volunteers
Date: 2015-04-01 11:26:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:2290961
Minister of Defense General Sedqi Sobhi on Wednesday agreed to accept a new batch of volunteers who wish to join the Armed Forces as of April 4 this year. Applicants should be holders of preparatory school degree or its equivalents or having a ....
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Foreign Ministry: Request to join AIIB aims at attracting more investments in infrastructure
Date: 2015-04-01 11:19:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:2290845
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that a request by Egypt to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) comes within the framework of efforts by the Egyptian government to attract more foreign investments in the sector of ....
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Egypt seeks Ghana support for UN non-permanent seat
Date: 2015-04-01 11:13:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:2290781
Egypt seeks to get Ghana's support for its UN non-permanent seat bid for 2016/2017. This was made clear during a meeting between Egyptian Ambassador in Accra Mohamed Haider and Ghanaian Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur on Wednesday. The ....
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Chinese president's visit to Egypt postponed
Date: 2015-04-01 10:40:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:2290401
Chinese President Xi Jinping postponed his visit to Egypt that was scheduled to take place mid April, Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef said Wednesday. The Cairo visit was part of a tour to include other countries, the spokesman added. ....
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Yemen's central bank suspends dealings in hard currency
Date: 2015-04-01 10:22:09 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:2290185
In a bid to save the Yemeni currency from collapsing, the country's Central Bank suspended any dealing in hard currency. The move comes after Yemenis started to withdraw their savings from banks in hard currency immediately after the launching of ....
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Egypt works on restoring all its stolen antiquities, says minister
Date: 2015-04-01 10:05:55 GMT - Germany - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:2290049
Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Al Damati said Egypt's policies are currently focusing on restoring all antiquities which have been smuggled from the country over the past period. In statements to MENA on the fringe of his three-day visit to ....
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Menufiya investigators continue search for killers of policeman in front of his house
Date: 2015-04-01 09:45:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2289781
Menufiya investigators are intensifying their efforts to hunt down the attackers of a policeman at dawn Wednesday in front of his house in Shebin El Kom district of Meit Khagan. Menufiya Security Director Momtaz Fahmy said the attackers knocked ....
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Turkish prosecutor dies after hostage siege
Date: 2015-04-01 09:03:38 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:9 - ID:2289473
A prosecutor involved in a controversial case died Tuesday after he was shot during a hostage siege in an Istanbul courthouse, the CNN reported. Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz died in the hospital from injuries he suffered during the attack, Prime ....
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Enough progress made in Iran nuclear talks to extend talks to Wednesday - US
Date: 2015-04-01 08:56:38 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:2289409
Nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers will pass the negotiators' self-imposed Tuesday night deadline to produce the outline of an agreement and will be extended by at least a day, the United States said. State Department spokeswoman ....
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Lavrov: Nuclear deal with Iran ‘reached on all key aspects’
Date: 2015-04-01 08:31:05 GMT - Russia - International - SN:7 - ID:2289213
Iran and six major world powers have managed to reach a preliminary agreement on ‘all the key aspects’ of a deal over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, Russia’s foreign minister said as quoted by Sputnik news agency. Experts from Iran and ....
