Miscellaneous

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  • 53 ships transit Suez Canal

    Date: 2013-11-18 07:08:58 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:22 - ID:392826

    ISMAILIA, Nov 18 (MENA) - Fifty-three ships transited the Suez Canal on Monday, carrying a total cargo of 2.805 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 28 ships, carrying 1.535 million tons, while the north-bound convoy included 25 ships, ....

  • Minya police seize 17 arms

    Date: 2013-11-18 07:01:57 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:20 - ID:392797

    MINYA, Nov 18 (MENA) - Minya police seized 17 arms, including three that were stolen from police stations during the unrest that followed the breakup of Rabaa and Nahda sit-in camps, a security source said Monday. The arms include machine guns, ....

  • Heavy rains, bad weather hit Damietta

    Date: 2013-11-18 06:59:56 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:19 - ID:392819

    DAMIETTA, Nov 18 (MENA) - Heavy rains that flooded Damietta all the night till Monday morning have paralyzed traffic and halted fishing at the Mediterranean coast and Manzala Lake. Security patrols have been intensified on international and ....

  • Al-Azhar Grand Imam confirms readiness to set up Azhar University branch in Sinai

    Date: 2013-11-17 16:01:03 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:102 - ID:392045

    CAIRO Nov 17 (MENA) – Al-Azhar, the highest religious institution in the Sunni Muslim world, confirmed readiness to fully meet the hopes of the residents of Sinai to have a branch of Al-Azhar University established in the peninsula. This was ....

  • Transport Minister meets with Hungarian Ambassador in Cairo

    Date: 2013-11-17 14:17:07 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:88 - ID:391959

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) – Minister of Transportation Ibrahim el-Demery discussed on Sunday with Hungarian Ambassador in Cairo Peter Kveck ways of boosting cooperation between the two countries in various transportation fields. The minister praised ....

  • Heavy rain in Alexandria, northwestern coast

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:07:45 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:53 - ID:391141

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Nov 17 (MENA) - Alexandria and elsewhere in the northwestern coast came under heavy rain bringing traffic in most roads to a halt in this Mediterranean city on Sunday. Navigation at Alexandria and Dekheila straits remains on ....

  • Nile water level steady

    Date: 2013-11-17 13:05:42 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:52 - ID:391773

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - The Nile water level was steady on Sunday, registering yesterday's same reading of 176.09 meters. Water released from the Aswan Dam reached 120 million cubic meters which is the same amount of water arriving freshly at Lake ....

  • Interpol launches search for Akhenaton's daughter statute

    Date: 2013-11-17 12:12:29 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:32 - ID:391249

    CAIRO, Nov 17 (MENA) - Chief of the Museums Sector Ahmed Sharaf asserted Sunday that 800 pieces of antiquities, that were stolen from Malawi museum in Menya during the violence acts that took place in the wake of the dispersal of Rabaa al-Adawiya ....

  • Thunder storms hit Marsa Matrouh

    Date: 2013-11-17 11:49:16 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:27 - ID:391549

    MARSA MATROUH, Nov 17 (MENA) - Marsa Matrouh and other areas in the northwestern coast came under heavy rain and thunder storms in a wave of bad weather on Sunday. Some streets and squares in Marsa Matrouh were covered with water bringing traffic ....

  • Four Dutch backpackers arrive in Luxor, praise security conditions

    Date: 2013-11-17 09:49:35 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:21 - ID:391125

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Nov 17 (MENA) – Four Dutch backpackers arrived late Saturday in Isna city, southern the Upper Egypt governorate of Luxor. They came from Libya and are en route to Sudan within the framework of a desert journey of several ....

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