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No restrictions on freedom of creativity - Min.
Date: 2014-08-12 12:53:57 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:15 - ID:870465
No restrictions are imposed on the freedom of creativity, Culture Minister Gaber Asfour said on Tuesday. During his inauguration of a cultural symposium early in the day, Asfour stressed that the historic masterpieces should be revised by ....
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UAE investor offers to implement big power plant in Egypt
Date: 2014-08-12 12:52:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:870462
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab met Tuesday with UAE investor Hussein Jassem al-Nuwais, who offered to implement a big power plant in Egypt in three phases. The plant is expected to secure 3,960 megawatts of electricity and is estimated to cost ....
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Businessman donates 20 million pounds for 'Long Live Egypt' fund
Date: 2014-08-12 10:50:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:870180
Businessman Alaa Arafa donated 20 million pounds for "Tahya Misr" (Long Live Egypt) fund to support Egypt's economy. Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab received the businessman. Arafa handed over Mahlab a five-million-pound cheque as a first ....
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Homemade bomb goes off in Maadi, child injured
Date: 2014-08-12 10:48:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:870176
A child was injured in Maadi district in Cairo after a homemade explosive device went off on Tuesday. A security source told MENA that an explosion occurred in Maadi, leaving a child injured. Sappers rushed to the scene where they found ....
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Electricity not affected by tower blast in Sharqiya
Date: 2014-08-12 10:04:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:870088
The electricity services have not been affected by a blast caused by two explosive devices under a high voltage electrical tower in the 10th of Ramadan city, Sharqiya, an official said on Tuesday. Unidentified gunmen planted four explosive ....
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US Secretary of State Kerry says image of 7-year-old boy holding severed head is 'grotesque'
Date: 2014-08-12 10:02:16 GMT - Australia - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:870083
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday described a photograph of a Sydney-born 7-year-old boy clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier as "disturbing" and "grotesque," and called for international cooperation against the terrorist ....
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Kuwaiti FM heads for Arabia to participate in OIC meeting on Palestine
Date: 2014-08-12 09:16:24 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:869974
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah headed for Saudi Arabia Tuesday. He will lead the Kuwaiti delegation to the extraordinary meeting of the executive committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the level of ....
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US not to send fighter aircraft to Iraq: Kerry
Date: 2014-08-12 08:36:37 GMT - Australia - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:869879
The US will not send fighter aircraft to Iraq, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. Kerry urged Prime Minister-Designate Haider al-Ibadi to quickly form a national unity government to stand against ISIL militants. ....
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Hamas welcomes forming int'l investigations committee to probe into war crimes in Gaza
Date: 2014-08-12 08:34:40 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:869874
Hamas welcomed a decision on forming an international investigations committee to probe into the war crimes done in Gaza. Hamas called on the committee to swiftly starts its work, said Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. William Schabas, a ....
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Interior Ministry calls on HRW to put off delegation visit to Egypt to Sept.
Date: 2014-08-12 07:08:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:869698
The Interior Ministry called on Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization to put off a visit of its delegation to Egypt until September to issue reports on Rabaa and Nahda sits-in, said a statement of the ministry. An HRW delegation tried to enter ....
