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Sisi: Armed forces, police to launch more security campaigns in Sinai to root out terrorism
Date: 2013-12-17 10:27:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:444398
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Tuesday that the Armed Forces and the Egyptian people are "a single entity," noting that the army will go on with its security campaigns to protect Egypt's ....
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Traffic back to normal after Monday clashes marking 2nd anniversay of cabinet clashes
Date: 2013-12-17 09:43:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:444308
Traffic on Qasr El-Eini Street is back to normal following the Monday clashes between security forces and some protesters who were commemorating the 2nd anniversary of the so-called "cabinet clashes". Intensive security presence was seen in the ....
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No preconditions for joining Syria conference: Zarif
Date: 2013-12-17 08:44:14 GMT - Iran - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:444167
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic would take part in the forthcoming Geneva II conference on the ongoing Syrian crisis if it is invited to the event without any preconditions, Press TV reported. During a ....
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Kerry in Philippines to show US support
Date: 2013-12-17 07:42:48 GMT - Philippines - International - SN:12 - ID:444034
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Tuesday in Philippines to show American backing for its longtime ally and inspect typhoon recovery efforts, ABC News reported. Kerry arrived in Manila from Hanoi, where a day earlier he pledged $32.5 ....
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Tamarod to support Sisi if he runs for presidency
Date: 2013-12-17 07:25:14 GMT - Algeria - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:443994
Founder of Tamarod (Rebellion) Movement Mahmoud Badr has said that the Egyptian movement will support Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi if he decides to run for presidency. If he declined to run, the movement would support Hamdeen ....
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Obama issues memo allowing offering defense services and articles to GCC countries
Date: 2013-12-17 06:35:41 GMT - USA - International - SN:10 - ID:443921
U.S. President Barack Obama has issued a memorandum for the Secretary of State allowing the furnishing of defense articles and defense services to the Gulf Cooperation Council, saying it will strengthen the security of the United States and promote ....
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Car bomb explodes near Hezbollah checkpoint
Date: 2013-12-17 06:35:00 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:443920
A car bomb exploded after being shot at by guards manning a Hezbollah security checkpoint almost two kilometers away from a center of the Shiite Lebanese group in the area of Sabouba near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon at dawn on Tuesday. Casualties ....
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Gibe III Dam to operate in September: Ethiopia
Date: 2013-12-17 06:26:51 GMT - Ethiopia - International - SN:8 - ID:443915
The Ethiopian Water, Irrigation and Energy Ministry said on Monday that Gibe III Dam on Omo River would operate in September to generate electricity through hydrodynamic. About 80 percent of the dam has been completed, Alemayehu Tegenu, the ....
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Health official denies water contamination in Damnhour
Date: 2013-12-17 06:15:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:443903
A senior Health Ministry official has denied rumors that drinking water has been contaminated in Damnhour, Beheira province. The drinking water in the town is safe and no cases of drinking contaminated water has been reported in hospitals, ....
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Switzerland ready to cooperate to restore Egypt's looted funds -- Swiss attorney
Date: 2013-12-17 06:11:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:443897
Switzerland's Attorney General Michael Lauber asserted his country’s readiness to cooperate and help Egypt to restore its funds which were smuggled by figures of the former regime of toppled president Hosni Mubarak and those accused in corruption ....