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  • Antiquities ministry asks governor to halt Fustat area works

    Antiquities ministry asks governor to halt Fustat area works

    Date: 2014-04-22 13:05:52 GMT - Egypt - Culture - SN:28 - ID:681807

    Head of the Islamic and Coptic Monuments Department at the Antiquities Ministry Smarat Hafez said he asked the antiquities minister and the Supreme Council of Antiquities' chief to direct Cairo governor not to establish any projects on the ....

  • Arab-Afro extraordinary meeting kicks off at AL HQ

    Arab-Afro extraordinary meeting kicks off at AL HQ

    Date: 2014-04-22 13:00:32 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:681793

    An extraordinary meeting on the senior officials level of the Arab-African partnership coordination committee began on Tuesday at the Arab League (AL) headquarters under Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the AL Aziz al-Daihani. The ....

  • Suez Canal vessels cargoes hit record high

    Suez Canal vessels cargoes hit record high

    Date: 2014-04-22 12:44:50 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:26 - ID:681758

    The cargoes laden at the vessels transiting the Suez Canal registered a record high on Tuesday. Fifty-two vessels transited the Suez Canal on Tuesday, carrying a total cargo of 4.324 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 30 ships, ....

  • Trial of Morsi, MB leaders over spying charges postponed to April 28

    Trial of Morsi, MB leaders over spying charges postponed to April 28

    Date: 2014-04-22 12:41:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:681752

    Cairo Criminal Court decided Tuesday to postpone until April 28 the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 35 other defendants of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood leaders on charges of espionage. The postponement came to start listening to ....

  • Defense minister says preserving national security of Egypt is 'our paramount task'

    Defense minister says preserving national security of Egypt is 'our paramount task'

    Date: 2014-04-22 12:06:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:681651

    Commander-in-Chief and Defense Minister General Sedki Sobhi said the paramount task of the armed forces was to preserve the national security of Egypt. Armed forces are ready to sacrifice for the sake of Egypt and its stability, he said, ....

  • Interior minister asserts need for beefing up security at checkpoints

    Interior minister asserts need for beefing up security at checkpoints

    Date: 2014-04-22 12:03:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:681640

    Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim asserted the necessity of beefing up security measures in all mobile and fixed checkpoints across the country. These remarks were made by the minister during his surprise tour in Fayyoum governorate to check on ....

  • Bomb defused inside Gharbia court

    Bomb defused inside Gharbia court

    Date: 2014-04-22 11:35:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:681569

    The bomb squad managed Tuesday to defuse a makeshift bomb, which was found inside Santa Court of first instance in the city Gharbia. Qalyubia security chief Mahmoud Yousri received a report, saying that a strange object was found inside the ....

  • Russia will support domstic manufacturers if west imposed sanctions - Medvedev

    Russia will support domstic manufacturers if west imposed sanctions - Medvedev

    Date: 2014-04-22 11:21:20 GMT - Russia - International - SN:20 - ID:681538

    In the near future Russia will switch Ukraine on advanced payments for gas supplies that will be a tough, but fair decision, if Kiev’s gas debt is not settled, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in reply to questions of Russian lawmakers ....

  • Egypt's envoy presses need for bolstering ties with Africa

    Egypt's envoy presses need for bolstering ties with Africa

    Date: 2014-04-22 11:13:05 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:681519

    Egypt's Ambassador Mohammad Idriss asserted that the Egyptian embassy has always keen on being a home for all Egyptians and works on beefing up interaction between Ethiopia and Egypt This came during a celebration held by the Egyptian community ....

  • Minister reviews strategies for agricultural development in Matrouh

    Minister reviews strategies for agricultural development in Matrouh

    Date: 2014-04-22 10:38:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:681414

    Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Ayman Farid Abu Hadid asserted the need for utilizing the vast areas of land in the coastal governorate of Matrouh and pressed the need for expansion of agricultural reclamation operations. This came ....

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