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PM meets Eni official to follow up production of Zohr gas field
Date: 2018-05-20 16:36:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:7409508
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail held on Sunday a meeting with Vice President of the Italian Eni company Antonio Vella in the presence of Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tareq el Mulla. During the meeting, Ismail praised projects of ....
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EgyptAir starts Umrah season with 18 flights to Jeddah, Madinah
Date: 2018-05-20 10:37:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:7408795
EgyptAir started on Sunday flights to carry Umrah pilgrims to Saudi Arabia during the Ramadan season. Eighteen regular and additional flights will be operated today from Cairo airport to Jeddah and Madinah with 3,116 pilgrims on board, said the ....
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Dollar rate stable at major banks
Date: 2018-05-20 10:35:43 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:7 - ID:7408790
The US dollar exchange rate was stable at major banks on Sunday. The dollar rate stood at EGP 17.77 for buying and EGP 17.87 for selling at the National Bank of Egypt. At Banque du Caire and the Commercial International Bank (CIB), the dollar ....
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Ex-secretary urges school boycott to press new gun laws in US
Date: 2018-05-20 08:54:38 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:7408636
Former US Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called on parents to pull "their children out of schools until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. "Parents should pull their children out of ....
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Iraqi forces hunt Daesh terrorists in Diyala, Salahuddin
Date: 2018-05-20 08:17:52 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7408577
Joint Iraqi security forces have continued hunting members of the terrorist organization of Daesh in border villages between the provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin, a senior security official said on Sunday. The operations are carried out in ....
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Albania seeks to promote economic, trade cooperation with Egypt - amb.
Date: 2018-05-20 08:14:51 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:4 - ID:7408572
Albanian Ambassador to Egypt Eduard Sulo stressed that his country seeks to promote economic and trade cooperation with Egypt. In an interview with MENA, the diplomat said the trade exchange between the two countries hit 22 million dollars last ....
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Iraq's incumbent PM meets Shiite leader Sadr
Date: 2018-05-20 07:32:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7408502
Iraqi incumbent Prime Minister Haider Abadi met with Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al Sadr, whose bloc has won parliamentary elections. The meeting, late on Saturday, came shortly after the announcement of the poll's results. Sadr's ....
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Awqaf minister opens Islamic thought forum in Cairo
Date: 2018-05-20 07:29:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:7408494
Egypt's Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, who also heads the supreme council of Islamic affairs, inaugurated on Saturday the Islamic thought forum at Al-Hussein Square outside Al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo. The opening was also attended by the ....
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Shiite leader Sadr urges peace, unity in Iraq
Date: 2018-05-20 07:27:06 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7408488
Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al Sadr, whose bloc has won parliamentary elections in Iraq, has called for unity, peace, fraternization among followers of different sects and religions in his country. "We are still advocates of unity, peace and ....
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Interior min. inspects security services in Cairo, Giza
Date: 2018-05-19 19:46:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7408300
Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar inspected Saturday security services in Cairo and Giza governorates to make sure that all security plans are implemented during the holy month of Ramadan. Abdel Ghaffar also inspected Mostafa Mahmoud and ....