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Transport Min, WB official discuss developing Egypt transportation system
Date: 2014-03-19 12:20:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:43 - ID:618614
Transport Minister Ibrahim El-Demiry met on Wednesday with Hartwig Schafer, the World Bank's Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti, to discuss means of boosting cooperation in developing the country's transportation system. The meeting ....
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Building collapses in Nasr City; casualties reported
Date: 2014-03-19 11:57:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:42 - ID:618563
A building collapsed in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City on Wednesday morning with casualties being reported. Civil Defense teams rushed to the site on 31 Abdel-Wahab El-Kadi Street, close to Ahmed Tayseer Street which lies in the area behind the ....
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Russian Constitutional Court backs Crimea reunification
Date: 2014-03-19 11:26:30 GMT - Russia - International - SN:41 - ID:618466
Russia’s Constitutional Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that a treaty reunifying the Ukrainian breakaway region of Crimea with Russia is lawful, RIA Novosti said. The court, based in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg, held an ....
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Assistant FM receives U.S. GAO delegation
Date: 2014-03-19 11:21:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:618448
Assistant Foreign Minister for Americas Affairs Mohmed Moneib received on Wednesday a delegation of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which is an independent agency that works for Congress. Talks between the two sides took up U.S. ....
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Strike by doctors, pharmacists hits 2.8% in Alexandria
Date: 2014-03-19 11:13:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:618426
Only 2.8 percent of the total workforce representing doctors and pharmacists in hospitals in Alexandria Governorate went on strike Wednesday. Health Ministry Undersecretary in Alexandria Mohamed Abu-Soliman said the strike included outpatient ....
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Court sentences 26 terrorists to death over Suez Canal plots
Date: 2014-03-19 11:04:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:618387
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Wednesday 26 terrorists to death over forming a terror group to target shipping passing through the Suez Canal and manufacturing explosives and missiles to be used in hostile acts in the country. One defendant ....
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EU didn't want Van Rompuy to learn 'truth' about Ukraine: Moscow
Date: 2014-03-19 10:47:28 GMT - Russia - International - SN:36 - ID:618328
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted angrily Wednesday to the cancellation of a visit to Moscow by European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, saying the EU did not want to know the "truth" about Ukraine. Moscow insisted it had welcomed ....
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Sisi delegates army commanders to lay wreaths of flowers on Unknown Soldier memorials
Date: 2014-03-19 10:38:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:35 - ID:618294
Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Field Marshal Abdel-Fatah el-Sisi delegated on Wednesday army commanders to lay wreaths of flowers on the Unknown Soldier memorials across the nation to mark the Taba Liberation Day. The Third Field Army ....
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Azhar Imam meets with finance min
Date: 2014-03-19 10:18:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:618244
Al Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayeb received on Wednesday Minister of Finance Hany Kadry and his accompanying delegation. El-Tayeb briefed Kadry on the administrative and technical development plan for Azhar headquarters. The meeting, which ....
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Security stepped up at Cairo airport amid MB calls for nationwide protests
Date: 2014-03-19 10:07:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:618216
Cairo airport security authorities announced a state of maximum alert on Wednesday amid calls by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood for nationwide protests. Security has been intensified at all the airport's buildings, its entrances and exits and ....