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  • Consultancy offices for Renaissance Dam to be named within days

    Consultancy offices for Renaissance Dam to be named within days

    Date: 2015-03-15 11:09:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:2167609

    Minister of Irrigation Hossam Moghazi asserted that an agreement has been reached to determine one or two consultancy offices that will conduct a technical study on the impact of Renaissance Dam on the Upstream Nile countries. In statements on ....

  • 186 Egyptian returnees from Libya on board of EgyptAir plane

    186 Egyptian returnees from Libya on board of EgyptAir plane

    Date: 2015-03-15 11:06:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:2167593

    As many as 186 Egyptians returning from Libya arrived here Sunday coming from the Tunisian airport of Djerba on board of an EgyptAir plane. This takes to 112,79 the number of Egyptians returning from unrest-hit Libya so far on board 48 flights. ....

  • 58 ships transit Suez Canal

    58 ships transit Suez Canal

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:58:21 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:32 - ID:2167525

    Fifty-eight ships transited the Suez Canal on Sunday, carrying a total cargo of around 3.39 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 42 vessels carrying about 2.35 million tons, while the north-bound convoy included 16 ships carrying around ....

  • Classes, exams at GUC regular - president

    Classes, exams at GUC regular - president

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:55:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:2167485

    Classes and exams at the German University in Cairo (GUC) are going on regularly for the second day on Sunday, President Mahmoud Hashem Abdel Kader said. Mid-term exams are going on as scheduled and no excuses will be accepted except in ....

  • Army kills scores of militants in many areas across Syria

    Army kills scores of militants in many areas across Syria

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:36:32 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:2167229

    Syrian army targeted on Sunday the armed terrorist organizations’ hideouts and gatherings in many areas across the country, killing and injuring scores of their members and destroying their weaponry, SANA reported. The army destroyed terrorists’ ....

  • Writer Valentin Rasputin passes away

    Writer Valentin Rasputin passes away

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:31:24 GMT - Russia - International - SN:28 - ID:2167189

    The famous Soviet and Russian writer Valentin Rasputin has died in a Moscow hospital, media reports said. Valentin Rasputin was born March 15, 1937 in the village of Atalanka, in the Ust-Uda district of the Irkutsk region into a family of ....

  • New Suez Canal to be finalized in August - official

    New Suez Canal to be finalized in August - official

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:26:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:2167141

    Chairman of Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish stressed on Sunday that the new Suez Canal will be finalized in August, the deadline President Abdel Fattah El Sisi set when launching the project. Mamish, speaking on the sidelines of Cairo Economic ....

  • Sisi meets UAE FM on sidelines of EEDC

    Sisi meets UAE FM on sidelines of EEDC

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:22:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:2167117

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received on Sunday UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Sharm el Sheikh. Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry also attended the meeting. The meeting came on the sidelines of the Egypt Economic ....

  • Jewish settlers break into Aqsa; Israeli forces hit 10-year-old girl

    Jewish settlers break into Aqsa; Israeli forces hit 10-year-old girl

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:14:26 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:2167013

    Groups of Jewish settlers broke into Aqsa Mosque Sunday amid heavy police protection. Israeli police hit a 10-year-old girl, a worker in the Islamic awqaf department in al Quds said. He added that the forces also attacked a guard while trying ....

  • Two blasts at Lahore churches claim 14 lives

    Two blasts at Lahore churches claim 14 lives

    Date: 2015-03-15 10:02:48 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:23 - ID:2166905

    Twin blasts targeted the Roman Catholic Church and Christ Church during Sunday mass in Youhanabad area of the provincial capital, killing 14 people including two policemen and injuring at least 70 others, Geo News reported. According to initial ....

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