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  • Armed Forces want to exit political tumult - Shahin

    Armed Forces want to exit political tumult - Shahin

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:41:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:41 - ID:158252

    CAIRO (MENA) – The Armed Forces want to exit the political tumult in the country, said Assistant Defense Minister for Legal Affairs Mamdouh Shahin. Speaking at the Shura Council during the discussion of a report by the Constitutional and ....

  • Misdemeanor court gives 11, 8 year prison sentences to Abu Islam, his son on religious disdain charges

    Misdemeanor court gives 11, 8 year prison sentences to Abu Islam, his son on religious disdain charges

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:38:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:158244

    CAIRO (MENA) - The Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced Wednesday Salafist preacher Ahmed Abdullah to 11 years in prison , nicknamed "Abu-Islam" on charges of insulting religion and burning the Bible. The Court also issued an 8-year prison ....

  • Trial of man accused of storming presidential  palace with a tow-truck delayed until Sept 16

    Trial of man accused of storming presidential palace with a tow-truck delayed until Sept 16

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:33:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:158234

    CAIRO (MENA) - North Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday decided to postpone until September 16 the trial of an Egyptian man who is accused of attempting to storm the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Heliopolis last February using a tow-truck. ....

  • No complaints received from Ethiopians in Egypt over maltreatment, says Foreign Ministry

    No complaints received from Ethiopians in Egypt over maltreatment, says Foreign Ministry

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:26:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:158222

    CAIRO (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Ministry affirmed that it has not received until now any complaints from any Ethiopian citizen over maltreatment. Egypt will not allow any discrimination against expatriates in the country, the Foreign Ministry ....

  • Ex-housing minister to be tried July 27 over graft charges

    Ex-housing minister to be tried July 27 over graft charges

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:25:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:35 - ID:158216

    CAIRO (MENA) – The Cairo Appeal Court set July 27 for the trial session of former housing minister Mohamed Ibrahim Suleiman and four others over profiteering and harming public funds charges. Suleiman, along with Chairman of the 6th of October ....

  • Suez Gov: Egyptians must align behind Suez Canal development project

    Suez Gov: Egyptians must align behind Suez Canal development project

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:21:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:158208

    SUEZ, Egypt (MENA) - Major General Samir Ajlan, the Governor of Suez called on Egyptians Sunday to unite behind the Suez Canal development project. In statements Sunday, Ajlan described the project as a national one which will attract investments ....

  • EU representative says debate takes up controversial articles of NGO bill

    EU representative says debate takes up controversial articles of NGO bill

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:16:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:158193

    CAIRO (MENA) - Special Representative of the European Union for Human Rights Stavros Lambrinidis stressed discussions which are now being held by the delegation during its current visit to Egypt are not meant to dictate, but deliberations took up ....

  • Draft budget lacks future vision on current conditions

    Draft budget lacks future vision on current conditions

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:12:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:158178

    CAIRO (MENA) - Head of the parliamentary office of Ghad Al-Thawra Party Abdel-Moneim el-Tunisi said during a meeting of the Shura Council's Committee of Financial Affairs Sunday that the draft budget totally lacked a future vision on current ....

  • Suzanne Thabet, Khadiga el-Gammal visit Mubarak in prison

    Suzanne Thabet, Khadiga el-Gammal visit Mubarak in prison

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:06:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:158161

    CAIRO (MENA) - Suzanne Thabet, wife of former president Hosni Mubarak, and her daughter-in-law Khadiga el-Gammal and the latter's mother visited on Sunday Mubarak in Tora Farm Prison, a security source said. They stayed for two hours, he told ....

  • Defense minister attends exercises by naval units

    Defense minister attends exercises by naval units

    Date: 2013-06-16 16:02:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:158150

    CAIRO (MENA) - Defense Minister Abdel Fatah el-Sisi attended on Sunday a number of exercises carried out by naval special units. The exercises included self-defense acts, long-range sniping, full-contact martial arts and storming of hostile ....

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