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Industry minister witnesses signing of $1.7 bln petrochemical compound deal
Date: 2014-04-07 10:54:51 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:40 - ID:654151
Egypt's Trade, Industry and Investment Minister Munir Abdel-Nour witnessed on Monday the signing of a deal with an Italian group to establish a petrochemical compound at a total investment of $1.7 billion. Italy-based Maire Tecnimont, in ....
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Social solidarity: 15 organizations applied for following up presidential polls
Date: 2014-04-07 10:42:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:654114
Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wali said Monday the ministry has received 15 applications by organizations wishing to follow up the presidential elections, slated for May 26-27. At a press conference held at the ministry premises on Monday, ....
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Justice ministry forms operations room for presidential polls
Date: 2014-04-07 10:38:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:654108
The justice ministry has formed an operations room to follow up the upcoming presidential elections. The room will coordinate efforts with the elections commission and other concerned ministres. Its formation came upon a decision of the ....
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Court turns down 3 activists' appeal into their jail sentences
Date: 2014-04-07 10:17:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:654046
Abdine Court turned down on Monday an appeal filed by activists Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Duma and Mohamed Adel against their three-year jail sentence. The court upheld the verdicts and fined each of them 50,000 pounds for assaulting policemen charged ....
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Calm prevails in Shobra El-Kheima after bomb found near school complex
Date: 2014-04-07 10:08:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:654015
Calm prevailed in Bahteen district of Shobra El-Kheima on Monday after security bodies managed to defuse a locally-made bomb found near Abu Bakr Al-Sediq school complex. Chief Prosecutor of Shobra El-Kheima ordered the bomb to be sent to criminal ....
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2 MB members sentenced for 2 years over violence
Date: 2014-04-07 09:40:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:653616
Two members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in Beheira were sentenced on Sunday to two years in prison over violence. The defendants were convicted with inciting violence, partaking in unlicensed protests and joining a blacklisted ....
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Egypt's foreign reserves up at dlrs 17.414 bn during March
Date: 2014-04-07 09:35:46 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:35 - ID:653926
Egypt's foreign reserves rose to 17.414 billion dollars in March, the Central Bank of Egypt said on Monday. The latest figure shows an increase by 107 million dollars to reach dlrs 17.414 billion in March against 17.307 billion dollars in the ....
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Six bodies of Aswan massacre victims handed over to their relatives
Date: 2014-04-07 09:33:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:653923
Six bodies of the victims of the worst ever tribal clashes in Aswan were handed over to their relatives amid tight security, Health Undersecretary Mohamed Azmi. The bloody violence that erupted between Al-Halayel and Al-Dabodeya tribes has ....
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2 killed, wounded in Baghdad
Date: 2014-04-07 09:31:11 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:653825
One civilian was killed and another wounded in different parts of the Iraqi capital on Monday, security sources said. Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a civilian in southern Baghdad, killing him at once, the source said. Another civilian was ....
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Transitional justice minister: Egypt resolved to continue future roadmap
Date: 2014-04-07 09:23:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:653895
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Transitional Justice Counselor Mohammad Amin Al-Mahdi asserted that the Egyptian government was resolved to continue the future roadmap plan by holding the presidential elections, set for May 26-27, and then the ....
