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  • Bourse gains EGP 2.1bln, main index up 0.67 pct

    Bourse gains EGP 2.1bln, main index up 0.67 pct

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:45:46 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:60 - ID:671788

    Egypt's Stock Exchange (EGX) indices achieved a collective rise at the close of Wednesday's trading prompted by purchases of Arab and Egyptian institutions amid expectations of strong rise of EGX after the end of Easter holidays and spring ....

  • 13 MB members arrested in Sharqia

    13 MB members arrested in Sharqia

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:44:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:59 - ID:671783

    Thirteen members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group were arrested on Wednesday in Sharqia province with Molotov cocktails and fireworks in their possession. The arrested, including three students, are accused of inciting violence, ....

  • US visa denial to Iran’s UN proposed envoy against int’l laws - MP

    US visa denial to Iran’s UN proposed envoy against int’l laws - MP

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:42:45 GMT - Iran - International - SN:58 - ID:671781

    A member of Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said here on Wednesday that the US visa denial to Iran’s proposed ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Aboutalebi is a clear violation of international law. Talking ....

  • 51 referred to criminal court over Helwan station attack

    51 referred to criminal court over Helwan station attack

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:40:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:671776

    Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered Wednesday 51 suspects to be referred to Cairo Criminal Court for raiding Helwan Police Station, killing three policemen and three citizens and wounding 19 others. Another 43 suspects were excluded from ....

  • Sisi campaign says received recommendation forms from people born in 1998

    Sisi campaign says received recommendation forms from people born in 1998

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:39:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:671773

    The campaign of presidential runner Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi received notarized recommendation forms from people who were born in 1998, said legal adviser of el-Sisi's campaign Bahaa el-Din Abu-Shoka. The important stage was checking the proxies ....

  • Azhar's Islamic Studies Faculty clashes in Zaqaziq leave 1 injured

    Azhar's Islamic Studies Faculty clashes in Zaqaziq leave 1 injured

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:35:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:55 - ID:671771

    One student of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University for Girls in Zaqaziq was injured during the clashes between the university's security guards and pro-Muslim Brotherhood (MB) students. Scores of the MB students staged an ....

  • FM receives Russian envoy for Middle East Sergey Vershinin

    FM receives Russian envoy for Middle East Sergey Vershinin

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:10:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:671715

    Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Wednesday received Russian envoy for the Middle East Sergey Vershinin. The meeting took up bilateral relations and several regional and international issues of common concern, said Egyptian Foreign Ministry ....

  • Port Said security chief denies torturing detainees

    Port Said security chief denies torturing detainees

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:08:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:671702

    Port Said Security Director Maj. Gen. Mohammed Sharqawi denied what was reported on some websites which claim that the detainees in the province's police stations had been tortured. The security director stressed that they were treated according ....

  • Court sentences Abu Ismail to seven years in prison

    Court sentences Abu Ismail to seven years in prison

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:07:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:52 - ID:671692

    Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced former presidential candidate Hazem Salah Hazem Abu Ismail to seven years in prison over charges of forging documents presented to the presidential elections commission in 2012 elections. He is accused ....

  • Iranian president reiterates possibility of Iran-Sextet final nuclear deal

    Iranian president reiterates possibility of Iran-Sextet final nuclear deal

    Date: 2014-04-16 13:05:59 GMT - Iran - International - SN:51 - ID:671675

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the road to a final, comprehensive deal between Iran and world powers on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program is fraught with difficulties, but at the same time noted that the deal would be possible within a ....

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