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  • Sisi: Finance of Suez Canal development project will be Egyptian

    Sisi: Finance of Suez Canal development project will be Egyptian

    Date: 2014-08-05 10:15:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:859102

    President Abdel Fatah El Sisi said on Tuesday that Egyptian national companies, that will be assigned with the Suez Canal development project will be working under the direct supervision of the Armed Forces. Sisi, in his speech at celebrations ....

  • Congress Backs Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense with Iron Dome bill

    Congress Backs Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense with Iron Dome bill

    Date: 2014-08-05 09:49:39 GMT - USA - International - SN:13 - ID:859109

    The Congress approved a $225 million package to replenish Israel's missile defenses with its last order of business before a five-week recess, as the Jewish state's cease-fire with Hamas unraveled and Israeli forces pushed deep into Gaza in search ....

  • Sisi attends launching ceremony of Suez Canal axis development project

    Sisi attends launching ceremony of Suez Canal axis development project

    Date: 2014-08-05 09:20:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:859022

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi attended the ceremony of launching the Suez Canal Axis Development Project at the Suez Canal Authority club, Ismailia province. The ceremony started with the Qura'n recitation, and then a documentary film about the ....

  • 3 Takfiri elements killed, 6 others injured in North Sinai

    3 Takfiri elements killed, 6 others injured in North Sinai

    Date: 2014-08-05 08:25:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:858874

    Three armed Takfiri elements were killed in a security crackdown in North Sinai, Military Spokesman Mohamed Samir said Tuesday. Six wanted elements were also detained in the campaign and a four-wheel drive car and 16 motorbikes used by the ....

  • Sisi arrives in Suez Canal Authority club

    Sisi arrives in Suez Canal Authority club

    Date: 2014-08-05 08:20:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:858857

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi arrived Tuesday in Suez Canal Authority club in Ismailia province to attend the ceremony of launching the Suez Canal Axis Development Project. The project will start through three main development centers: the ....

  • 72-hour Gaza ceasfire begins

    72-hour Gaza ceasfire begins

    Date: 2014-08-05 06:36:35 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:858697

    A 72-hour ceasefire brokered by Egypt has gone into effect in Gaza and Israel at 8 a.m (Gaza local time). Before the truce, Israel launched air strikes on Gaza City and on southern and central parts of the Palestinian territory. Also, a ....

  • FM visits Tunisia airport to reassure Egyptians ahead of their return home

    FM visits Tunisia airport to reassure Egyptians ahead of their return home

    Date: 2014-08-05 06:04:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:858664

    Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri on Monday visited Tunisia's Djerba airport to reassure to Egyptian nationals, who arrived from Libya, ahead of their return to Cairo. Shoukri met with a number of Egyptians, who are due to return home after ....

  • UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over detention of British national

    UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over detention of British national

    Date: 2014-08-05 06:00:45 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:6 - ID:858661

    Chargé d’Affaires at the Ethiopian Embassy in the UK Demeke Atnafu was summoned to the Foreign Office on Monday to meet the UK’s Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds. Simmonds expressed deep concern that the Ethiopian authorities had not allowed ....

  • Giza orphanage manager in custody for 4 days over children torture

    Giza orphanage manager in custody for 4 days over children torture

    Date: 2014-08-05 05:28:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:858620

    Prosecutors on Monday ordered an orphanage manager in Giza to be placed in custody for four days pending investigations into charges of beating and torturing children in his care. Osama Mohamed Othman faces charges of beating, using cruelty and ....

  • James Brady, White House press secretary under Reagan, dies

    James Brady, White House press secretary under Reagan, dies

    Date: 2014-08-05 05:23:33 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:858618

    James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was badly wounded in the assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan and later became an advocate for gun control, has died. He was 73. His family announced Brady's death in a ....

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