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  • Metro Line 3 to be opened in May

    Metro Line 3 to be opened in May

    Date: 2014-04-12 15:56:28 GMT - Jordan - Economy - SN:35 - ID:664451

    Egyptian Minister of Transport Ibrahim Demeiri, currently in Jordan, said that the second stage of the Metro Line 3 project will be inaugurated during the first week of May. "As many as 1.5 million passengers are expected to use the third line ....

  • Memish: 62 ships cross Suez Canal

    Memish: 62 ships cross Suez Canal

    Date: 2014-04-12 15:53:11 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:34 - ID:664446

    Sixty-two vessels crossed the Suez Canal on Saturday carrying a total cargo of 3.7 million tons, said Suez Canal Authority Chief General Mohab Memish. In statements to MENA, Memish said navigation movement on Sunday registered record numbers as ....

  • Bani Helal Tribe: Azhar Imam debated with us, we are abiding by reconciliation

    Bani Helal Tribe: Azhar Imam debated with us, we are abiding by reconciliation

    Date: 2014-04-12 15:50:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:664442

    Grand Imam of Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb met on Saturday with leaders of Bani Helal tribe, one of the parties to tribal bloody clashes that took place in Aswan last week and claimed the lives of 26 people. Ahmed El-Sayyed, a leader figure of ....

  • Trial of Badea, 50 others over Rabaa violence to resume April 22

    Trial of Badea, 50 others over Rabaa violence to resume April 22

    Date: 2014-04-12 15:05:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:664370

    The trial hearing of guide of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badea along with 50 MB members over orchestrating violence in the immediate aftermath of the dispersal of two protest camps in Rabaa Adawiya and Nahda will resume on April ....

  • Barghouti to MENA: Palestine admission to Geneva agreements provides legal bases for holding Israel accountable for its crimes

    Barghouti to MENA: Palestine admission to Geneva agreements provides legal bases for holding Israel accountable for its crimes

    Date: 2014-04-12 15:02:21 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:664364

    Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Movement Mostafa Al-Barghouti asserted that Palestine's joining the Geneva agreements provides the legal basis for holding Israel accountable for its crimes in the occupied Palestinian ....

  • Azhar Imam starts meetings with Aswan tribesmen

    Azhar Imam starts meetings with Aswan tribesmen

    Date: 2014-04-12 14:53:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:664347

    Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb held meetings on Saturday with representatives of disputing Bani Helal and Daboudiya tribes and a number of chieftains as part of his current visit to Aswan to discuss ways to restore stability and security ....

  • Ezz Steel case adjourned till June 9

    Ezz Steel case adjourned till June 9

    Date: 2014-04-12 14:51:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:664333

    Cairo Criminal Court Saturday adjourned until June 9 the retrial of Mubarak-era steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz over charges related to a monopoly deal of the Dekheila steel company. The defense team asked for an adjournment to prepare and to have more ....

  • CPA refers Nissan Motors Egypt to prosecution

    CPA refers Nissan Motors Egypt to prosecution

    Date: 2014-04-12 14:11:37 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:28 - ID:664162

    The Consumers Protection Agency has referred Nissan Motors Egypt to public prosecution for not informing the agency about a malfunction in the brakes of one of its recent automobiles. In statements on Saturday, CPA Chairman Major General Atef ....

  • Countries violating international law should be punished - Palestinian FM

    Countries violating international law should be punished - Palestinian FM

    Date: 2014-04-12 13:25:56 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:664057

    Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki underlined that countries that violate the international law should be punished not the nations that abide by law. "The Israeli forces try to punish us which is considered a violation to the ....

  • MENA plans to open new bureau in Halayeb, Shalateen

    MENA plans to open new bureau in Halayeb, Shalateen

    Date: 2014-04-12 13:23:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:664050

    The Middle East News Agency (MENA) will start to train a number of people, who are residents in Halayeb and Shalateen, at the agency's various departments in order to choose the best trainees to work in a new bureau to be opened in Halayeb and ....

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