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  • Israeli forces arrest 37 Palestinians in West Bank during Eidul Fitr

    Israeli forces arrest 37 Palestinians in West Bank during Eidul Fitr

    Date: 2019-06-09 23:30:37 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7973579

    Israeli occupation forces have arrested 37 Palestinians in the West Bank during Eidul Fitr, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club announced on Sunday. There are three girls among the arrestees, the club said in a press statement. Of all, the Israeli ....

  • Egypt dismisses reports on fuel prices hike

    Egypt dismisses reports on fuel prices hike

    Date: 2019-06-09 22:31:40 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:6 - ID:7973574

    The Finance Ministry denied Sunday reports on fuel prices hike, saying that a fabricated Facebook page with the logo of the ministry had claimed such rumors. "This news is baseless," the ministry stressed, refuting such rumors, aimed at ....

  • PM calls for increasing local components in automotive industry

    PM calls for increasing local components in automotive industry

    Date: 2019-06-09 18:26:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:7973466

    Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli said Sunday that the government pays great attention to boosting the locally-manufactured parts in the automotive industry. Madbouli’s remarks came during his meeting with Trade and Industry Minister Amr Nassar, ....

  • House okays draft amendments to anti-drug law

    House okays draft amendments to anti-drug law

    Date: 2019-06-09 17:52:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:7973419

    The House of Representatives has okayed amendments to the anti-drug law of 1960 as a whole, but delayed the final approval to Tuesday. Under the proposed amendments, synthetic materials produced from narcotics should be considered as drugs. ....

  • Parl't approves gov't-proposed bill on SCC

    Parl't approves gov't-proposed bill on SCC

    Date: 2019-06-09 17:47:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:7973410

    The House of Representatives in its plenary session on Sunday okayed a number of articles of the government-proposed draft law to amend some provisions pertaining to the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC's) law. The parliament's approval to the ....

  • Bourse gains EGP 5.8 bln

    Bourse gains EGP 5.8 bln

    Date: 2019-06-09 17:26:14 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:2 - ID:7973396

    The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes posted collective gains on Sunday, backed by purchases of local institutions and investment funds. The market capital gained EGP 5.8 billion to reach EGP 750.9 billion amid transactions that hit EGP 565 ....

  • Cabinet media center underlines positive change in foreign media coverage of Egypt economy

    Cabinet media center underlines positive change in foreign media coverage of Egypt economy

    Date: 2019-06-09 17:14:48 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:1 - ID:7973377

    The cabinet media center has underlined a change in the way foreign media covers the economic performance in Egypt. News agencies, such as Bloomberg, Reuters, and Financial Times, have been pointing to tangible growth following economic reforms ....

  • Sisi: Egypt keen on establishing strategic partnership with Eritrea

    Sisi: Egypt keen on establishing strategic partnership with Eritrea

    Date: 2019-06-08 20:10:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:7972334

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi stressed Saturday the importance of setting forth well-defined plans to push forward Egyptian-Eritrean cooperation at various levels. Sisi also underscored the need to overcome any obstacles to mutual cooperation, ....

  • IAEA urges nuclear-derived techniques to protect oceans

    IAEA urges nuclear-derived techniques to protect oceans

    Date: 2019-06-07 21:49:19 GMT - Austria - International - SN:5 - ID:7971357

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) celebrated on Friday World Oceans Day, calling for using nuclear-derived technique to protect them. In a statement, the IAEA said "oceans contain half of the oxygen we breathe and much of the protein ....

  • 9 dead, 14 injured in vehicle collision in Aswan

    9 dead, 14 injured in vehicle collision in Aswan

    Date: 2019-06-07 19:17:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:7971284

    As many as nine people were killed on Friday and 14 others injured in a head-on collision in northern Aswan. The accident occurred when a microbus collided with a seven-seat vehicle on the Cairo-Aswan western desert road, some 55 kilometers away ....

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