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Trial of 213 Ansar Beit Makdis militants starts
Date: 2015-03-05 09:31:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:2094649
Cairo Criminal Court started on Thursday the first trial session of 213 defendants of Ansar Beit Makdis militant group charged with involvement in 54 terrorist crimes against police. The crimes include a failed assassination attempt on Interior ....
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Egypt wins membership of COMESA court of justice
Date: 2015-03-05 09:11:05 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:2094433
Egypt got a membership of the COMESA court of justice on Wednesday. Egyptian Judge Wael Mamdouh Rady topped the list of people who got the top class membership of the court. Speaking to MENA, Egyptian Ambassador in Khartoum Osama Shaltout ....
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Bosnian president supports Egypt in war against terrorism
Date: 2015-03-05 08:34:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2094117
Bosnian President Mladen Ivanic has voiced his country's support for Egypt in its war against terrorism. During a meeting with Egyptian Ambassador in Sarajevo Yasser el-Atawy, Ivanic offered condolences for Egyptian Copts who were beheaded by ....
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Hopefuls for EJS chairmanship hails court ruling on elections
Date: 2015-03-05 08:13:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2093957
Head of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS) Diaa Rashwan on Wednesday expressed happiness over a ruling by the Higher Administrative Court to hold the mid-term elections of the Syndicate as scheduled. In statements to MENA, Rashwan said that ....
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Fire at Cairo police station contained
Date: 2015-03-05 08:11:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2093941
Firefighters put out a fire erupted inside a police station in Cairo's neighborhood of Old Cairo on Wednesday, a security source told MENA. The fire was erupted after inmates set fire at blankets in a bid to escape. ....
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Tourism min. partakes in Egyptian political evening in Germany
Date: 2015-03-05 08:09:00 GMT - Germany - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:2093925
Tourism Minister Hisham Za'aou took part Wednesday in an Egyptian political evening held at House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany (The Haus der Geschichte) in Berlin. The evening included cultural shows. Egypt's ambassador to ....
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Egypt slams attacks on Libyan oilfields
Date: 2015-03-05 08:06:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:2093893
Egypt has slammed attacks on the Bahi and Mabruk oilfields in central Libya, said spokesman for Foreign Ministry Badr Abdel Ati. The attacks aimed at undermining the international community's efforts to encourage the political dialogue, Abel Ati ....
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Court rules vote of journalists' syndicate to be held as scheduled
Date: 2015-03-05 07:52:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:2093805
The Higher Administrative Court Court has decided to hold the mid-term elections of Syndicate of Journalists as scheduled. The syndicate will hold elections on the post of the chairman and six members of the syndicate council. On Sunday, the ....
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Sisi meets UN official, members of education, scientific research council
Date: 2015-03-05 07:40:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:2093753
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi meets on Thursday with Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres, Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef said. Sisi also meets with members of the Specialized ....
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Iraqi forces kill 9 Daesh militants during operations in Salaheddin province
Date: 2015-03-05 07:21:37 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:2093621
Iraqi forces killed nine militants of Daesh terrorist group, which now controls swaths of Iraqi and Syrian territories, and destroyed seven of their vehicles during security operations in Salaheddin province, security sources said. Two among the ....