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  • 'Hundreds' of gunmen storm central Nigeria town, kill 5: Police

    'Hundreds' of gunmen storm central Nigeria town, kill 5: Police

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:43:22 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:20 - ID:405362

    Some 300 gunmen have stormed a village in central Nigeria killing five people and burning scores of homes, police said. The early morning attack targeted the village of Kuka in Plateau state, which roughly falls on the dividing line between ....

  • 144 new schools in Beheira at cost of EGP 104 million - governor

    144 new schools in Beheira at cost of EGP 104 million - governor

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:42:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:405358

    Beheira Governor Moustafa Hadhoud unveiled on Monday plans to set up 114 new schools in the governorate at a cost of 104 million pounds. In press statements, Hadhoud said 13 schools have been already set up at a cost of 22 million pounds. They ....

  • UN chief condemns attack on UNAMID

    UN chief condemns attack on UNAMID

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:40:46 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:18 - ID:405352

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned "in the strongest terms" the latest attacks against a peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region, which left a peacekeeper dead. "The Secretary-General was deeply disturbed to learn of another attack ....

  • Conscript wounded in grenade attack on Cairo checkpoint

    Conscript wounded in grenade attack on Cairo checkpoint

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:39:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:405292

    A conscript was wounded when a grenade was thrown by unidentified gunmen at a security checkpoint in the Cairo district of Matariya, a high-level source at Cairo Security Directorate said on Monday. The source told MENA that the attackers were ....

  • Equipment used in manufacturing explosives seized in house of MB member

    Equipment used in manufacturing explosives seized in house of MB member

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:26:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:405315

    Giza police have seized equipment used in manufacturing explosives inside the house of a Muslim Brotherhood member. An arrest warrant had been issued for Abdel-Rahman M. S., 21, on charges of attacking police stations in Giza in the wake of the ....

  • One-storey house collapses in Matrouh, no casualties

    One-storey house collapses in Matrouh, no casualties

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:23:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:405305

    A one-storey house partially collapsed in the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matroh on Monday but no casualties were reported, Matrouh security directorate said. Ambulances and civil defense teams rushed to the place while security forces cordoned ....

  • Mines, RPGs, artillery shells seized in expanded security crackdown - source

    Mines, RPGs, artillery shells seized in expanded security crackdown - source

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:19:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:405297

    Security forces seized large amount of anti-tank mines, explosive capsules, shells of anti-aircraft cannons, RPGs and arms before being used in terrorist operations, said Assistant Interior Minister for Public Security Sector Sayed Shafiq on ....

  • Police prevent Brothers from blocking traffic in Cairo

    Police prevent Brothers from blocking traffic in Cairo

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:12:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:405284

    The interior ministry said that security forces have prevented a limited number of Muslim Brotherhood supporters from blocking traffic in Nasr City, eastern Cairo, and Maadi and the coastal city of Alexandria on Sunday. The ministry's media ....

  • Tamarood Campaign rejects protest law

    Tamarood Campaign rejects protest law

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:08:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:405271

    Tamarood Campaign rejected a newly-issued law on protests, the campaign spokesperson Hassan Shahin said on Sunday. The campaign urged earlier the National Council for Human Rights to amend two articles in the law in order to allow anybody to ....

  • Govt denies news about subsidy

    Govt denies news about subsidy

    Date: 2013-11-25 08:07:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:405269

    The government denied on Sunday a report by Al-Jazeera television that the state subsidy will be gradually lifted over months. In statements to MENA, the prime minister's media adviser Sherif Shawqi said there is a plan to cut the subsidies over ....

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