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Gaza families visit prisoners in Israeli jail
Date: 2013-12-30 10:03:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:469304
Israeli authorities allowed scores of relatives of Gaza detainees to visit them in Nafha jail in the desert in southern Israel on Monday. As many as 93 family members including 23 children had access to the prison earlier today, said Nasser ....
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Housing minister inspect projects in Assiut
Date: 2013-12-30 10:00:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:469296
Assiut Governor Ibrahim Hammad received Monday Housing Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, currently visiting the governorate to inspect several projects and future plans in the governorate. The minister inspected water and sanitation stations. The ....
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Foreign Ministry reviews final preparations for Egyptian expats voting on new constitution
Date: 2013-12-30 09:46:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:469255
The Foreign Ministry held a series of meetings with the High Electoral Commission and the Ministry of Administrative Development to review final arrangements for Egyptian expatriates' vote on the new constitution. The ministry urged Egyptian ....
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Arab League informs member states of Egypt's decision on MB
Date: 2013-12-30 09:44:07 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:469247
The Arab League has officially informed all Arab countries of Egypt's decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, said the AL general secretariat on Monday in a press release. Egypt sent a memorandum of the decision to the ....
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Exams resumed at Azhar University under tight security measures
Date: 2013-12-30 09:20:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:469178
The Azhar University resumed Monday mid-year exams amid tight security measures despite attempts of Brotherhood students to hamper the exams. A security source at the university said that security forces were intensified at the university to help ....
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10 mn pounds allocated for preachers at Kafr El-Sheikh, says minister
Date: 2013-12-30 09:15:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:469153
Minister of Awqaf Mohammad Mokhtar Gomaa approved a budget of 10 million pounds to establish a hospital for preachers and the allocation of 1,660 housing units for clerics and Awqaf employees. The units will be distributed through a lottery by ....
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Gharbia security forces on alert to secure churches during New Year celebrations
Date: 2013-12-30 09:12:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:469146
Gharbia Security Chief Osama Bedeir has placed all security bodies on alert to secure all vital facilities, especially governmental ones and churches, during Christmas celebrations. There is a plan to intensify fixed and mobile security patrols ....
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30,000 Nigerians still stranded in Central African Republic
Date: 2013-12-30 09:08:31 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:6 - ID:468981
About 30,000 Nigerians are still stranded in the crisis-ridden Central African Republic, Nigeria TV reported Sunday. It quoted Chairman of Nigeria's House of Representatives on Foreign Affairs Nnenna Ukeje as saying the government had perfected ....
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Nigeria steps offensive against radical Isamist Boko Haram group
Date: 2013-12-30 08:58:56 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:23 - ID:469101
Nigerian forces have stepped up the offensive against the rebels in the past few days after Boko Haram fighters armed with grenade launchers and anti-aircraft guns attacked an army barracks in the town of Bama, The Vanguard online newspaper ....
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Death toll of Volgograd bomb attack rises to 15
Date: 2013-12-30 08:57:05 GMT - Russia - International - SN:18 - ID:469049
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 20 others hurt in a suspected suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, the BBC reported. The blast comes a day after 17 people died in another suicide attack at the ....