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4 MB members receive 5-year jail sentences
Date: 2014-04-30 13:52:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:43 - ID:696566
Suez misdemeanors court sentenced four Muslim Brotherhood members to five years in prison over accusations of taking part in illegal demonstrations and riot acts. The court fined them 50,000 pounds each. A judicial source said that the ....
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Public business sector not to be sold cheap - Mansour
Date: 2014-04-30 13:38:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:696575
The Public business sector will not to be sold cheap, affirmed Interim President Adly Mansour during his speech at celebrations marking Labor Day. Following the January 25 Revolution and June 30 Revolution, Egypt has had great aspirations and to ....
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Panel willing to receive remarks on political rights draft law
Date: 2014-04-30 13:36:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:696570
A committee tasked with amending a law on political rights is willing to receive any suggestions or remarks from political parties and powers, committee spokesman Mahmoud Fawzy said. Fawzi told reporters on Wednesday that the committee discussed, ....
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Pope Tawadros receives director of Italian culture center in Cairo
Date: 2014-04-30 13:35:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:696569
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese received here Wednesday the director of the Italian Cultural Center in Cairo. The meeting took up cultural cooperation between the Italian government and the Coptic Orthodox Church ....
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Nile water level drops 1cm
Date: 2014-04-30 13:33:22 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:42 - ID:696563
The Nile River water level recorded 174,97 meters on Wednesday, one centimeter less than Tuesday's reading. Water released from Aswan Dam reached 175 million cubic meters and water coming freshly to Lake Nasser today amounted to 123 million cubic ....
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Sisi receives Anwar el-Sadat wife, son
Date: 2014-04-30 13:32:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:41 - ID:696558
Presidential runner Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met on Wednesday with the wife and son of late president Anwar el-Sadat. This step comes as part of Sisi's keenness on communicating with all national symbols and public figures before the presidential ....
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Masnour hails workers on Labor Day ceremony
Date: 2014-04-30 13:07:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:696497
Presidential spokesperson Ehab Badawy said on Wednesday that president Adly Mansour has delivered a speech in a ceremony held on the occasion of the Labor Day. Mansour hailed the workers' role in building the state and bringing about economic and ....
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MB students clash with security staff at Mansoura University
Date: 2014-04-30 13:06:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:696491
Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated students at Mansoura University clashed with the security staff after staging a protest on Wednesday. They later moved their protest outside the campus to clash with the anti-riot police that were deployed ....
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Egyptian judiciary "independent", "impartial" - Sekina Fouad
Date: 2014-04-30 13:05:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:696486
The Egyptian judiciary is independent and impartial, affirmed presidential adviser for women's affairs Sekina Fouad. The presidential adviser made the remark during her meeting Wednesday with members of the Arab Peoples and Parliaments ....
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Iraqi Parliamentary vote opens amid tight security measures
Date: 2014-04-30 13:03:52 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:695839
Millions of Iraqis flocked to polling stations on Wednesday to cast their votes in the first parliamentary election since the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. The security forces imposed tight security measures and blocked ways leading ....