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MB cuts short democracy in 'ballot box' -- presidential adviser
Date: 2013-08-06 13:20:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:231224
Presidential adviser for strategic affairs Moustafa Hegazi said the Muslim Brotherhood did not accept democracy. The group reduced the democratic process to just the ballot box, falling short of safeguarding the values governing democratic ....
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Interior ministry denies news on dispersing Rabaa, Nahda sit-ins in 48 hours
Date: 2013-08-06 12:57:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:231169
A well-placed security source at the Interior Ministry denied statements attributed to Major Fahmi Bahgat in which he claimed in several satellite channels that he is the head of the police officers coalition and that Cairo's Rabaa El-Adaweya and ....
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Overall security plan to secure citizens during Eidul-Fitr holiday
Date: 2013-08-06 12:55:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:231166
Qena security chief Major General Mohamed Kamal said that an overall security plan was outlined to secure citizens during Eidul-Fitr (Lesser Bairam) holiday. Security measures will be tightened on highways, public facilities, places of worship ....
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Presidential adviser says no foreign mediation to solve political crisis in Egypt
Date: 2013-08-06 12:51:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:231157
Presidential adviser Moustafa Hegazi has said that foreign and Arab parties coming to Egypt are seeking to get firsthand information about the political crisis in Egypt. He would not call it mediation efforts to solve the crisis or broker ....
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2 Egyptian passengers seized with military uniform, weapons on plane from Istanbul
Date: 2013-08-06 12:47:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:231141
Cairo airport customs department has foiled an attempt by two Egyptian passengers to smuggle weapons and military uniform into the country. Mesaab T. and Nazmy S. were coming from Istanbul and had three baggages that contained rifles, weapon ....
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Ayman Nour denies being placed on travel ban list
Date: 2013-08-06 11:39:09 GMT - Lebanon - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:230975
Ayman Nour, founder of the Ghad El-Thawra party, denied being place on a travel ban list. "I came to Beirut two weeks ago for medical treatment," he told Aljazeera television. Nour called on Egypt' new leaders to avoid the mistakes of ....
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Deputy PM says no changes to Egypt's roadmap
Date: 2013-08-06 11:25:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:230948
Ziad Bahaa el-Din, Deputy Prime Minister for economic affairs, said no change will be made in the roadmap for the transitional stage in Egypt that was announced after the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi. "We will not waver from the roadmap. ....
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Police station in Arish comes under attack
Date: 2013-08-06 11:18:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:230931
EL-ARISH, Egypt (MENA) - Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a police station in El-Arish city, North Sinai, with no casualties reported. A security source said that the attackers managed to flee after an exchange of fire with security forces. ....
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Egypt cancels Erdogan's Gaza visit - Turkish paper
Date: 2013-08-06 10:58:49 GMT - Turkey - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:230898
Egypt canceled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's planned visit to the Gaza Strip via Egypt, the Turkish newspaper "Vatan" reported on Tuesday. Erdogan had planned to visit the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, entering from Egypt, some time ....
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Remand order of former presidential secretary, deputy carried out – prison dept
Date: 2013-08-06 08:57:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:230764
Former chief of the presidential staff Refaa el-Tahtawi and his deputy Asaad el-Shikha arrived in Tora Prison after the prosecution ordered Sunday holding them for 15 days each pending probe over their alleged role in the Ittihadiya violence that ....