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Court refers Watan newspaper to prosecution for violating gag order
Date: 2014-04-30 12:51:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:696428
Cairo Criminal Court judge Shaaban el-Shamy ordered on Wednesday referring the Watan newspaper to the prosecution on charges of violating a gag order in the espionage case in which former president Mohamed Morsi and a number of Muslim Bortherhood ....
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Safwat Hegazy slapped with 1 year in prison for insulting judiciary
Date: 2014-04-30 12:42:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:696401
Cairo Criminal Court decided Wednesday to sentence preacher Safwat Hegazy to one year in prison over charges of insulting judiciary. Hegazy insulted the judiciary during standing trial in the case the jailbreak from Wadi el-Natrun prison complex ....
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53 vessels transit Suez Canal
Date: 2014-04-30 12:21:53 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:35 - ID:696353
Fifty-three vessels passed through the Suez Canal on Wednesday, carrying a total cargo of 2.859 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 22 ships with a combined cargo of 1.510 million tons while the 31 ships of the north-bound convoy had a ....
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Tourism, antiquities ministers check on Deir el-Medina in Luxor
Date: 2014-04-30 11:22:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:695899
Antiquities and Tourism Ministers Mohamed Ibrahim and Hisham Zaazou, respectively visited on Wednesday Deir el-Medina, an ancient Egyptian village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to ....
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Mansour honors veteran trade unionists, former officials
Date: 2014-04-30 11:08:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:696169
Interim President Adly Mansour granted medals of first class to ten veteran trade unionists along with former officials at the Manpower and Immigration Ministry. The move came in appreciation of their efforts in boosting productivity in work. ....
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Egypt's workers force ex-manpower minister to leave Labor Day celebartions
Date: 2014-04-30 11:05:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:696162
Former manpower minister Ahmed Borai walked out of the Labor Day celebrations at the Nasr City Conference Center after many workers opposed his attendance. The ceremony started half an hour later than scheduled after anti-Borai chants caused a ....
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Kuwait pledges continuing support to Palestinians
Date: 2014-04-30 10:54:04 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:696114
Kuwait pledged to continue its support for the Palestinian people until the end of Israeli occupation and the establishment of the Palestinian state. "We hail the Palestinian people and leadership for their efforts to regain their rights, state, ....
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Egypt's Mansour attends Labor Day celebrations
Date: 2014-04-30 10:36:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:696066
Egypt's Interim President Adly Mansour launched on Wednesday Labor Day celebrations at the Cairo International Conference Centre, Nasr City. The celebrations, organized by the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), are attended by Prime Minister ....
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Parliament session to elect president adjourned for lack of quorum
Date: 2014-04-30 10:22:15 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:696030
The Lebanese Parliament session to elect a new president of the country was adjourned on Wednesday for lack of quorum. A two-thirds quorum (86) of the legislature’s 128 members is required for any electoral session. Speaker Nabih Berri ....
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Halayeb to be first solar-powerd city in Egypt within 1 year
Date: 2014-04-30 10:20:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:696025
Halayeb will be the first Egyptian city to be fully powered by solar energy as part of an initiative between the Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) and the European Union, said the IDSC head Wednesday. By June, the city's ....
