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  • Egyptian defense attaché in Jordan says Armed Forces sided with people , did not conduct coup

    Egyptian defense attaché in Jordan says Armed Forces sided with people , did not conduct coup

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:53:37 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:192537

    AMMAN (MENA) - Colonel Hossam Abdel-Fattah, the Egyptian Defense Attaché in Jordan has refuted claims of a military coup in his country, insisting the Armed Forces sided with millions of citizens who took to the streets on June 30 demanding that ....

  • Thousands of Morsi's supporters protest in Qena

    Thousands of Morsi's supporters protest in Qena

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:46:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:192522

    QENA (MENA) – Thousands of former president Mohamed Morsi supporters in Qena staged a protest to show support for the ousted president. The protest called for by a number of Islamist groups and parties. The protesters chanted slogans against ....

  • Presidency hints at naming ElBaradei as vice president, Ziad Bahaa El-Din as PM

    Presidency hints at naming ElBaradei as vice president, Ziad Bahaa El-Din as PM

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:45:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:192484

    CAIRO (MENA) - The presidency hinted at naming Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei as a vice President and Ziad Bahaa El-Din, a member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, as a new prime minister, presidential adviser for media affairs Ahmed ....

  • Finance minister denies burning ministry's documents

    Finance minister denies burning ministry's documents

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:39:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:192511

    CAIRO (MENA) - Finance Minister Fayyad Abdel Moneim denied on Sunday news reports claiming that a number of the officials affiliated to Islamist groups have burned several ministry's documents. "All these reports are baseless," Abdel Moneim. ....

  • Laser messages light up Tahrir Square

    Laser messages light up Tahrir Square

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:30:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:192494

    CAIRO (MENA) – Thousands of protesters at Tahrir Square in Cairo held on Sunday a laser show with anti-Morsi messages. Some of the phrases included 'Leave and People toppled the regime' which got loud cheers from the crowd. Meantime, ....

  • Islamist figure proposes putting roadmap for public referendum

    Islamist figure proposes putting roadmap for public referendum

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:28:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:192490

    CAIRO (MENA) - A leading member of Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya Aboud el-Zomor has proposed to put a roadmap suggested by the Armed Forces to public referendum to get the country out of the current crisis. In statements to MENA on Sunday, Zomor voiced ....

  • Czech warns citizens to avoid protests in Cairo

    Czech warns citizens to avoid protests in Cairo

    Date: 2013-07-08 11:22:18 GMT - Czech - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:192480

    PRAGUE (MENA) – Czech foreign ministry issued a warning on Sunday for its citizens living in Egypt, urging them to avoid protests staged in Cairo, Alexandria and Luxor. It urged them to avoid holding individual trips to northern Egypt. It ....

  • Man accused of throwing young men off building in Alexandria is jihadist

    Man accused of throwing young men off building in Alexandria is jihadist

    Date: 2013-07-08 10:56:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:192422

    ALEXANDRIA (MENA) - A man, who appeared on an online video throwing young men off a building during deadly clashes in the Mediterranean city on Friday, belongs to a jihadist group, a security source told MENA. The man, an employee at a petroleum ....

  • Gunmen open fire at Arish police station

    Gunmen open fire at Arish police station

    Date: 2013-07-08 10:39:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:192391

    ARISH, Egypt (MENA) - A number of unidentified gunmen opened fire on Saturday at a police station in Arish, the capital of North Sinai. Police exchanged fire with the gunmen, forcing them to flee, according to eyewitnesses. No causalities ....

  • Information minister post can be aborted: presidential advisor

    Information minister post can be aborted: presidential advisor

    Date: 2013-07-08 10:36:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:192386

    CAIRO (MENA) - Presidential adviser for media affairs Ahmed el-Meslemani hinted at aborting the portfolio of the information ministry. "There are directions in aborting some portfolios including the information ministry" he told Al Arabiya TV ....

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