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  • Transport Min, WB official discuss developing Egypt transportation system

    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 ....

  • Building collapses in Nasr City; casualties reported

    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 ....

  • Russian Constitutional Court backs Crimea reunification

    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 ....

  • Assistant FM receives U.S. GAO delegation

    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. ....

  • Strike by doctors, pharmacists hits 2.8% in Alexandria

    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 ....

  • Court sentences 26 terrorists to death over Suez Canal plots

    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 ....

  • EU didn't want Van Rompuy to learn 'truth' about Ukraine: Moscow

    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 ....

  • Sisi delegates army commanders to lay wreaths of flowers on Unknown Soldier memorials

    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 ....

  • Azhar Imam meets with finance min

    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 ....

  • Security stepped up at Cairo airport amid MB calls for nationwide protests

    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 ....

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