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  • Rafah terminal closed for weekend: Official

    Rafah terminal closed for weekend: Official

    Date: 2014-01-10 10:00:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:489909

    A source at the Rafah terminal said the crossing will be closed on Friday for the weekend until further announcement. The source said the terminal was opened since Tuesday for three days for humanitarian cases. ....

  • Tourism minister to attend Holiday Fair in Vienna

    Tourism minister to attend Holiday Fair in Vienna

    Date: 2014-01-10 09:59:37 GMT - Austria - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:489908

    Egyptian Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou is to take part in the Holiday Fair in Vienna, an international event for holidays, travel and leisure, and the leading trade fair for tourism in Austria, an official said on Friday. "Zaazou's participation ....

  • Democracy is not sin – Eftaa House

    Democracy is not sin – Eftaa House

    Date: 2014-01-10 09:49:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:489891

    Democracy that embodies Islam’s political concepts is not blasphemy or a sin, the Egyptian Eftaa House said. Concepts like electing a ruler, resisting injustice, getting advice, promoting virtue and preventing vice are Islamic principles and ....

  • Effat al-Sadat attacks Qatar

    Effat al-Sadat attacks Qatar

    Date: 2014-01-10 09:43:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:489882

    Sadat Democratic Party leader Effat al-Sadat has strongly criticized Qatar, following a denying a request by the Egyptian authorities to hand over the terrorist "Assem Abdel-Maged", who is a senior member of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya. In a statement, ....

  • Qalubiya on high security alert

    Qalubiya on high security alert

    Date: 2014-01-10 09:28:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:489856

    Qalubiya stepped up the security alert at all of its vital institutions to face any riots during the protests called for by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood on Friday. Security presence was heightened around the security HQs, city hall and police ....

  • World labor bodies slam kidnapping Egypt officials

    World labor bodies slam kidnapping Egypt officials

    Date: 2014-01-10 09:26:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:489854

    International labor groups condemned on Friday the kidnapping of Egyptian labor officials from the ministry of manpower and the tourism syndicate. The Italian Labor Union condemned the kidnapping as a crime targeting "unionist officials who are ....

  • Nahda Sq. opened to traffic

    Nahda Sq. opened to traffic

    Date: 2014-01-10 09:13:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:489829

    Security bodies opened Giza’s Nahda Square, once a site of a sit-in by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, to traffic and passers-by on Friday ahead of protests by the so-called pro-Morsi “National Coalition to Support ....

  • Social solidarity ministry addresses HEC to add new NGOs to supervise referendum

    Social solidarity ministry addresses HEC to add new NGOs to supervise referendum

    Date: 2014-01-10 08:54:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:489783

    The Ministry of Social Solidarity has addressed High Election Commission (HEC) to add five new NGOs on a list of organizations that will supervise the forthcoming referendum on Egypt's amended constitution, spokesman Hani Mahana has said. In ....

  • Gov't to establish new bridges over Luxor's Rams Road

    Gov't to establish new bridges over Luxor's Rams Road

    Date: 2014-01-10 08:49:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:489775

    The cabinet has approved a project to establish two bridges over the tourist sight of the Rams Road linking the Luxor and Karnak Temples. The project is expected to enrich the tourist activities in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. The cabinet ....

  • New constitution preserves pensioners' rights: ex-MP

    New constitution preserves pensioners' rights: ex-MP

    Date: 2014-01-10 08:44:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:489766

    El-Badri Farghali, a former Port Said member of parliament, said the new draft constitution preserves the rights of pensioners. During a seminar organized by Damietta media center on Thursday, Farghali said that article 17 in the new ....

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