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  • El-Arabi returns home after end of Arab summit

    El-Arabi returns home after end of Arab summit

    Date: 2014-03-27 13:36:59 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:634275

    Secretary General of the Arab League (AL) Nabil el-Arabi returned here on Thursday coming from Kuwait after a one-week visit to the Arab country. EL-Arabi took part in the meetings of the two-day AL summit which wrapped up in Kuwait yesterday ....

  • MENA, KUNA agree on fostering cooperation in press technology

    MENA, KUNA agree on fostering cooperation in press technology

    Date: 2014-03-27 13:32:44 GMT - Kuwait - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:634258

    Board Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Middle East News Agency (MENA) Alaa Heidar asserted on Thursday the importance of boosting cooperation with Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) in light of the huge development witnessed in the press technology in the ....

  • PM cuts short cabinet meeting, leaves for presidential palace

    PM cuts short cabinet meeting, leaves for presidential palace

    Date: 2014-03-27 13:29:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:634255

    Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab cut short a cabinet meeting on Thursday and left for the headquarters of the Presidential Palace. Mahlab is reportedly to attend the constitutional oath of Sedki Sohbi as the country's defense minister after ....

  • Sedki Sobhi takes oath as defense minister

    Sedki Sobhi takes oath as defense minister

    Date: 2014-03-27 13:29:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:634238

    General Sedki Sobhi took oath Tuesday before Egypt's Interim President Adly Mansour as the new Defense Minister. Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab attended the swearing-in ceremony. Early in the day, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has ....

  • Mahlab back to Cabinet meeting with new defense minister

    Mahlab back to Cabinet meeting with new defense minister

    Date: 2014-03-27 13:12:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:634209

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab returned to the Cabinet HQ after attending the swearing in of new defense minster General Sedqi Sobhi at the presidential palace. Mahlab and Sobhi returned to the conference room, where a Cabinet meeting was taking ....

  • Mahmoud Hegazy appointed new army chief-of-staff

    Mahmoud Hegazy appointed new army chief-of-staff

    Date: 2014-03-27 13:05:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:634194

    Interim President Adly Mansour issued a decision to promote head of the military intelligence service Major General Mahmoud Hegazy to Lieutenant General and appoint him as the new chief-of-staff of the Armed Forces. Hegazy will be succeeding ....

  • 182-, 364-day T-bills auctioned

    182-, 364-day T-bills auctioned

    Date: 2014-03-27 12:42:13 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:23 - ID:634135

    The Finance Ministry auctioned on Thursday treasury bills at a total value of EGP 6 billion. In an online statement, the ministry said it sold EGP 2.5 billion of 182-day T-bills. The average yield was 10.637%, it said, adding it accepted bids at ....

  • Interior ministry delegation heads for Jeddah

    Interior ministry delegation heads for Jeddah

    Date: 2014-03-27 12:40:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:634131

    A delegation of the Egyptian interior ministry's department of civil affairs left here on Thursday heading for Jeddah. The staffers will renew the IDs of Egyptian expatriates in Saudi Arabia ahead of the coming elections. This step will ....

  • Abdel-Nour tackles energy cooperation with Russia

    Abdel-Nour tackles energy cooperation with Russia

    Date: 2014-03-27 12:35:42 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:21 - ID:634125

    Trade, Industry and Investment Minister Mounir Fakhri Abdel-Nour had a series of meetings with a number of Russian officials and heads of funding institutions before his departure from Moscow. In a statement Thursday, the ministry said ....

  • Obama to visit Saudi Arabia Friday

    Obama to visit Saudi Arabia Friday

    Date: 2014-03-27 12:34:58 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - International - SN:20 - ID:634121

    US President Barack Obama will arrive in Riyadh on Friday on a visit to Saudi Arabia to meet Saudi King Abdallah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi Press Agency said. During the meeting, they will discuss relations between the two countries and ....

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