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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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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Four suspected terrorists killed in North Sinai
Date: 2013-11-25 08:03:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:405215
Four suspected terrorists were killed and 29 Takfiri elements and criminals were arrested in an expanded security operation in the areas of Rafah, Sheikh Zuwaid and Bir al-Abed in North Sinai. A security source said among the arrestees were three ....
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South Korea downgrades Egypt travel ban
Date: 2013-11-25 07:59:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:405249
South Korea has decided to ease its travel warning on Egypt, paving the way for its citizens to travel to Egypt after the security situation improved in the country, Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said. He said the Korean government has decided ....
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PM defends new protest law
Date: 2013-11-25 07:51:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:405231
Prime Minister Hazim Beblawi asserted on Sunday that a newly-issued law on protests will not limit freedoms or ban peaceful demonstrations. Instead the law will organize the right to demonstrate, Beblawi told Al-Hayat television. He also ....
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Proposed quota for women in parliament "not satisfying": Talawy
Date: 2013-11-25 07:38:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:405212
Mervat Al-Talawy, head of Egypt's National Council for Women and a member of the 50-strong constitutional panel, said the proposed quota for women in parliament is not satisfying. "We reject this quote. The state, not women, has a responsibility ....
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FM meets US envoy on Sudan, S. Sudan
Date: 2013-11-24 15:51:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:404641
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy received Sunday visiting US Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth for consultations on issues related to the two Sudans. The discussions took up international and regional mediatory efforts on the ....
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One month needed for draft constitution referendum: Saleeb
Date: 2013-11-24 15:45:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:55 - ID:404609
Chairman of the Supreme Electoral Committee Nabil Saleeb said Sunday the referendum on the draft constitution needed one month for preparation after a call by the president. Saleeb, who is president of Cairo Court of Appeal, told MENA the 30 days ....