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HEC maintains updating voter database
Date: 2015-03-17 12:17:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2184081
The High Election Committee (HEC) on Tuesday announced it continued to update the election voter database until a decision is issued calling on voters to head for electoral stations to cast their ballots in the parliamentary elections. Committee ....
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Police officer referred to court over charges of killing activist Shimaa el-Sabbagh
Date: 2015-03-17 10:47:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2183061
A police officer was referred to Cairo Criminal Court on Tuesday over charges of killing political activist Shimaa el Sabbagh. Prosecutor General Counselor Hisham Barakat ordered referring the central security officer to the court. ....
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Interior Ministry denies reports on police storming on party HQ in Alex
Date: 2015-03-17 10:41:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2182989
The Interior Ministry has denied reports that police troops have stormed the premises of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP) premises in Alexandria and detained two of its members, according to a reliable official at the media center. The ....
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Sisi meets president of UN General Assembly
Date: 2015-03-17 10:15:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:2182665
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is to meet on Tuesday president of the UN General Assembly Sam Kahamba Kutesa, presidential spokesman Alaa Yousef said. Kutesa arrived in Cairo earlier today on a two-day visit for talks with Egyptian officials on ....
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Prince Charles starts visit to Washington today
Date: 2015-03-17 10:14:08 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:2182637
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, are set to arrive in Washington and will visit cultural and educational sites over the next three days. The British Embassy says the royal couple is scheduled to arrive Tuesday evening at Andrews ....
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Iraqi warjets shell Daesh militants northern Tikrit
Date: 2015-03-17 10:12:32 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:2182613
Iraqi army warplanes shelled a group of Daesh militants in an area between Anbar and Salaheddin governorates, northwester Iraq, killing and injuring dozens of them. An army officer was killed in a bomb explosion in Tikrit, Salaheddin on Tuesday, ....
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Shoukry to CNN: Egypt awaits outcome of UNSC meeting on Arab draft resolution on Libya
Date: 2015-03-17 10:09:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:2182577
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has warned against the serious situation in the Middle East region in view of the heightened threats of terrorism, pressing the need for a swift action by the international community to stand against this ....
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Italian negotiator to replace Blair as Middle East envoy
Date: 2015-03-17 07:29:36 GMT - Italy - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:2181137
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini chose Fernando Gentilini, an Italian EU official who has worked for NATO in Afghanistan, for the special representative to the Middle East role, and she said her choice was supported by EU ....
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Official: 4 Filipino nurses kidnapped from Sirte, Libya
Date: 2015-03-17 07:25:23 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:2181125
Militants from the Daesh affiliate in Libya kidnapped four nurses from the Philippines in broad daylight from a hospital in the city of Sirte, while several others were evacuated on Monday, a militia official said. The official who belongs to the ....
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Orthodox Church refuses to recognize Wadi El Rayan monastery
Date: 2015-03-17 07:19:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:2181081
The Coptic Orthodox Church said on Tuesday that a monastic gathering in Wadi al-Rayan is not a monastery, stressing that it approved that the Transport Ministry establish a road in the area. "To recognize a monastery, five conditions should be ....
