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  • Finance Minister: We will be siding with Al-Azhar so that it would maintain its noble message

    Finance Minister: We will be siding with Al-Azhar so that it would maintain its noble message

    Date: 2014-03-19 18:05:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:71 - ID:619484

    Finance Minister Hani Qadri on Wednesday said that his ministry will be siding with Al-Azhar so that it would maintain its noble message. Qadri, in statements on the sidelines of his cordial visit to Al-Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyeb, ....

  • Trial of Mubarak, his two sons, others over presidential palaces case adjourned to March 27

    Trial of Mubarak, his two sons, others over presidential palaces case adjourned to March 27

    Date: 2014-03-19 18:04:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:70 - ID:619477

    A Cairo Criminal Court adjourned to March 27 the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons and others, over embezzling state funds allocated to presidential palaces. The decision was taken to listen to pleadings of the public ....

  • Sisi leads mourners at funeral of 2 army officers

    Sisi leads mourners at funeral of 2 army officers

    Date: 2014-03-19 18:00:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:69 - ID:619468

    Defense Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Field Marshal Abdel Fatah el-Sisi led Wednesday mourners at the funeral of two army officers who were killed in a security operation in Qalyub early this morning. Sisi extended ....

  • Fatah spokesman assaulted in front of MENA HQ

    Fatah spokesman assaulted in front of MENA HQ

    Date: 2014-03-19 18:00:15 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:68 - ID:619465

    Three people assaulted Fatah spokesman Ahmed Assaf on Wednesday while he was entering the Middle East News Agency (MENA) headquarters for an interview. MENA security personnel arrested two of the attackers who threw eggs at Assaf while he ....

  • Ashton says Iran nuclear talks 'subantiative'

    Ashton says Iran nuclear talks 'subantiative'

    Date: 2014-03-19 17:38:29 GMT - Austria - International - SN:67 - ID:619413

    European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Iran and world powers have held "substantive" and "useful" discussions at the second round of talks on a long-term settlement of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program. Ashton said the ....

  • PM, Cairo gov inspect slum development project

    PM, Cairo gov inspect slum development project

    Date: 2014-03-19 17:37:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:66 - ID:619410

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab and Cairo Governor Galal Said inspected on Wednesday a project aimed at developing slums in El-Salam city eastern Cairo. The project is covering 70 acres for building a city that will be a home for slum inhabitants ....

  • Putin submits Crimea reunification treaty to Parliament

    Putin submits Crimea reunification treaty to Parliament

    Date: 2014-03-19 17:24:24 GMT - Russia - International - SN:65 - ID:619394

    Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday submitted the Crimea reunification treaty to the parliament for ratification, RIA Novosti quoted the legislature’s press service as saying. Earlier in the day, the treaty was unanimously approved by ....

  • UN Secretary-General to visit Moscow, Kiev on Thursday

    UN Secretary-General to visit Moscow, Kiev on Thursday

    Date: 2014-03-19 17:23:13 GMT - Russia - International - SN:64 - ID:619392

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Moscow and Kiev on March 20-21, Itar-tass reported on Wednesday. The UN secretary-general will leave for a visit to Russia on Wednesday within diplomatic efforts to encourage all parties to settle the ....

  • Cairo University President says police forces to be summoned in case of violence

    Cairo University President says police forces to be summoned in case of violence

    Date: 2014-03-19 16:44:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:63 - ID:619320

    In case of any violence acts committed at Cairo University’s campus, police forces will be summoned at once, Cairo University President Gaber Nassar told MENA Wednesday. Meanwhile, hundreds of terrorist Brotherhood group students started rallies ....

  • Security forces control protest by terrorist MB students at Cairo University

    Security forces control protest by terrorist MB students at Cairo University

    Date: 2014-03-19 16:40:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:619307

    Security forces on Wednesday controlled the situation in Nahda public square in Giza after preventing Cairo University students who belong to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group from heading towards Giza security directorate. The forces fired ....

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