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Mubarak retrial adjourned to Sunday session
Date: 2014-04-26 13:10:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:688791
Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday adjourned to April 27 the retrial of ex-president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, runaway businessman Hussein Salem and ex-interior minister Habib el-Adly and six of his aides. The postponement ....
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Awqaf min.: Ministry has 'upper hand' over mosques
Date: 2014-04-26 13:09:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:688788
Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa reiterated that the ministry had the legitimate and legal control over the country's mosques under the religious authority of Al-Azhar. Gomaa underlined the ministry's eagerness to keep the mosques away from ....
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Syrian opposition works on establishing embassy in Vienna
Date: 2014-04-26 13:01:38 GMT - Austria - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:688773
Badran Farawati, member of Austria's coordination committee of the Syrian opposition, said preparations are currently underway to organize protests in front of the Syrian embassy here in rejection of the presumed Syrian presidential elections, ....
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Egypt-Tanzania relations strong except for signing Entebbe agreement, says envoy
Date: 2014-04-26 12:20:03 GMT - Tanzania - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:688715
Egypt’s Ambassador to Tanzania Hossam Moharram said the Egyptian-Tanzania relations have been very strong since Egypt extended help to Tanzania’s liberation movements. In press statements on Saturday, Ambassador Moharram asserted that the only ....
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Trial of 50 MB defendants starts in Qena
Date: 2014-04-26 12:18:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:688507
The first trial session of 50 terrorist Muslim Brotherhood defendants accused of torturing former police officers in Aswan kicked off on Saturday. The 50, along 25 other fugitives, are accused of rioting and assaulting and torturing former police ....
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Project for producing solar energy in Egypt to be established - minister
Date: 2014-04-26 12:11:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:688700
Local and Administrative Development Minister Adel Labib announced that the state will implement a giant project during the coming phase for producing solar energy with total cost of one billion dollars. The minister's remark came during ....
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Leader of Ansar Brigade, 4 others killed in Iraq
Date: 2014-04-26 10:38:58 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:688235
Leader of Al-Ansar Brigade, who is responsible of occupying the official circles in Fallujah was killed along with four others, including two Saudi nationals, security sources said on Saturday. The five were killed by Iraqi security forces in ....
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Secretary of FJP in Alex arrested
Date: 2014-04-26 10:38:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:688497
Cairo Airport authorities arrested on Saturday Emir of Jamaa Islamia and Secretary of the Freedom and Justice Party in Alexandria before travelling to Malaysia. Mohsen El-Sayyed Bakri was arrested by passport officers before boarding a plane ....
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Lebanese army receives arms from US
Date: 2014-04-26 10:35:59 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:688492
The Lebanese army on Saturday received amounts of US arms as part of the US aid program to the Lebanese army and in implementation of agreements signed between the two sides. Top Lebanese army officers and members of the US Defense cooperation ....
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Egypt's commitment to road map "basis" for restoring AU membership - Deputy FM
Date: 2014-04-26 10:33:52 GMT - Tanzania - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:688483
Egypt's commitment to implementing the transitional road map is the basis for restoring its membership in the African Union, said Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Ambassador Hamdy Loza. Egypt's is moving toward this path by ....