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  • Mufti adviser slams killing of US journalist

    Mufti adviser slams killing of US journalist

    Date: 2014-08-20 13:49:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:883183

    Adviser to the Mufti of the republic Ibrahim Negm has denounced the beheading of a US journalist by the terrorist Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq. "Such acts distort the image of Islam, and give our enemies an opportunity to circulate unfounded ....

  • Minister announces agreement to legalize status of Cairo suspended factories

    Minister announces agreement to legalize status of Cairo suspended factories

    Date: 2014-08-20 13:48:31 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:44 - ID:883181

    Minister of Trade and Industry Munir Fakhry Abdel Nour said on Wednesday that an agreement was reached with the Housing Ministry to legalize the status of the small- and medium-sized factories in the industrial zone in the Third Settlement, New ....

  • Liberman: Israel must take back initiative, 'bring Hamas to submission'

    Liberman: Israel must take back initiative, 'bring Hamas to submission'

    Date: 2014-08-20 13:46:42 GMT - Israel - International - SN:43 - ID:883176

    Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman implicitly criticized Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, accusing him of surrendering the initiative to Hamas in the wake of the collapse of the latest cease-fire in the South, the ....

  • 17 Daaesh members killed and injured in Iraq

    17 Daaesh members killed and injured in Iraq

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:57:55 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:42 - ID:882938

    Seventeen members of the Daaesh group were killed in Iraq and others injured in a suicide bombing carried out by the group in the western Iraqi area of Ramadi on Wednesday. The Iraqi news agency quoted a security official as saying that two ....

  • Obama, Putin invited to Erdogan's inauguration ceremony

    Obama, Putin invited to Erdogan's inauguration ceremony

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:50:01 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:41 - ID:882899

    Turkey's President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend his inauguration ceremony on August 28. According to Milliyet newspaper, this year's ceremony will be different as ....

  • Court postpones to Monday trial of Morsi and 14 others

    Court postpones to Monday trial of Morsi and 14 others

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:48:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:882897

    Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday postponed to Monday the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 other defendants of leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood over charges of killing and instigating murder of protesters at Ittihadiya ....

  • PM: Power outage problem will start easing up as of Sunday

    PM: Power outage problem will start easing up as of Sunday

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:47:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:882891

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab on Wednesday said that the power outage problem will start easing up as of Sunday. At a press conference, he added that a plan has been drawn up for upgrading the capacity of 54 power plants nationwide to meet ....

  • ERTU head: Committee to be formed to outline regulations of National Council for Media

    ERTU head: Committee to be formed to outline regulations of National Council for Media

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:32:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:882838

    Head of the Egyptian Radio and TV Union (ERTU) Essam el-Amir on Wednesday said that names of a 50-member committee will be announced to outline regulations governing the National Council for Media. In statements to MENA, Amir, who doubles as ....

  • Azhar university staffers protest over bonus decrease

    Azhar university staffers protest over bonus decrease

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:24:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:882816

    Al Azhar University staffers staged on Wednesday a protest over a 50 percent decrease of their monthly bonus and the delayed payment of their salaries. The workers raised banners denouncing such a move towards them alone while bonuses of staffers ....

  • Sokary gold mine pumps EGP 20bl into Egypt's economy: Official

    Sokary gold mine pumps EGP 20bl into Egypt's economy: Official

    Date: 2014-08-20 11:19:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:882793

    The al-Sokary gold mine has injected EGP 20 billion into the domestic economy over the past three years, said Esmat al-Rajhi, the mine's Public Relations and Media Director. The mine utilized the latest mining technology which conforms to the ....

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