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  • Egypt to offer 60,000 feddans for reclamation

    Egypt to offer 60,000 feddans for reclamation

    Date: 2014-04-09 07:24:20 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:2 - ID:657641

    Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Ayman Farid Abu-Hadid has expressed Egypt's readiness to offer 60,000 feddans for reclamation. Abu-Hadid's statements came during an annual meeting of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development ....

  • Egypt goes through difficult transition – envoy

    Egypt goes through difficult transition – envoy

    Date: 2014-04-09 07:22:30 GMT - France - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:657639

    Egyptian Ambassador to France Mohamad Mustafa Kamel said Tuesday that Cairo rode out an uneasy transition and faced various challenges including terrorism. The diplomat made the remarks in a round table discussion shared with political analyst ....

  • Sabahi mourns victims of Aswan confrontations

    Sabahi mourns victims of Aswan confrontations

    Date: 2014-04-08 19:13:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:51 - ID:657326

    Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi offered his condolences to families of those who fell victim during the bloody confrontations that took place in Aswan. A bloody fighting between Bani Helal and the Daboudiya tribes claimed the lives of 26 ....

  • FM denies any intention of sending Egyptian troops abroad

    FM denies any intention of sending Egyptian troops abroad

    Date: 2014-04-08 19:11:01 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:657322

    Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy categorically denied that the country intends to dispatch troops abroad, stressing Egypt's commitment to its obligations to regional and international organizations. Interviewed by a Sudanese channel, Fahmi ....

  • Mahlab appoints new chief for Academy of Scientific Research

    Mahlab appoints new chief for Academy of Scientific Research

    Date: 2014-04-08 19:08:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:657319

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab appointed Tuesday Mahmoud Sakr as the new president of the Academy of Scientific Research. According to the decision, Sakr's tenure will last for four years. Sakr was born in 1965. He got his Ph.D. in 1995 from ....

  • Sisi meets Sinai chieftains

    Sisi meets Sinai chieftains

    Date: 2014-04-08 17:10:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:657150

    Presidential hopeful Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi met Tuesday with Sinai chieftains. Representatives of a lot of tribes were present at the meeting which was held at Sisi's electoral campaign headquarters in South Sinai. "Do not give some people the ....

  • MB students protest at Cairo univ.

    MB students protest at Cairo univ.

    Date: 2014-04-08 17:06:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:656632

    Dozens of terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) students staged on Tuesday a rally on Cairo University's campus. During their march, the MB students chanted slogans against the Armed Forces and police. They also hurled fireworks and at troops. Amid ....

  • Death toll from Awan tribal clashes hit 26

    Death toll from Awan tribal clashes hit 26

    Date: 2014-04-08 17:03:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:656969

    The death toll from Awan tribal clashes hit 26 on Tuesday after one person died earlier in the day from his wounds. According to an official source with Aswan University Hospital, the deceased is called Shazli Shahat. He was 22. Meanwhile, ....

  • Political parties call for granting amnesty to 3 political activists

    Political parties call for granting amnesty to 3 political activists

    Date: 2014-04-08 16:59:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:46 - ID:657106

    Several political parties and movements have called on Tuesday for granting amnesty to three political activists, who were sentenced to three years and fined 50,000 pounds each, over illegal protest. These activists are Ahmed Doma, Ahmed Maher ....

  • Minister: Security forces will only be deployed on campus in case of violence

    Minister: Security forces will only be deployed on campus in case of violence

    Date: 2014-04-08 16:55:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:657111

    Minister of Higher Education Wael el-Degwy on Tuesday said that security forces will only be deployed on campus in case of violence inside universities that requires their deployment. At an emergency meeting of the Higher Council of Universities, ....

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