Egypt
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Court hands down one to five years prison sentences in case of foreign funding of NGOs
Date: 2013-06-04 14:27:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:139920
The Cairo Criminal Court handed down one to five years prison sentences to 43 defendants in the case of foreign funding of five NGOs operating in Egypt. Each defendant was fined 1,000 pounds for illegally receiving foreign funds and operating ....
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Upper Egypt railway service halted over off-duty conscript death protest
Date: 2013-06-04 14:14:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:139900
Train movement came to a halt in Assiut, Upper Egypt, for five hours on Tuesday due to a protest by villagers over the death of an off-duty solider. The conscript was killed by a stray bullet as rival villagers exchanged fire. Protesters ....
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Judges protest outside High Court against bill
Date: 2013-06-04 09:07:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:139272
Hundreds of judges staged a protest outside the High Court of Justice, Downtown Cairo, on Monday to express their full rejection of a bill on the judicial authority. Judges' Club head Ahmed el-Zend is among the protesters. Also, ....
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Morsi's aide apologizes for embarrassments occurred after airing presidency's meeting live
Date: 2013-06-04 08:55:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:139251
Assistant to the President for Political Affairs Bakinam el-Sharqawi apologized for political figures who attended Monday's presidency meeting on the potential impact of Ethiopia's dam project for embarrassments caused by airing the meeting on ....
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Egypt not to give up one drop of Nile water: Morsi
Date: 2013-06-04 08:43:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:139215
President Mohamed Morsi said on Monday that Egypt will not give up one drop of Nile water. This came during an emergency cabinet meeting, chaired by Morsi, to discuss potential impact of Ethiopia's Renaissance dam project on Egypt. ....
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Defence minister opens 2nd stage of Kobry El Koba medical complex development
Date: 2013-06-03 14:27:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:138315
Egypt's Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi inaugurated on Monday the second stage of the development works at the Armed Forces Medical Complex in Kobry El Koba. This stages includes the opening of a chest hospital, an operations section at ....
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Qatari Emir meets Egyptian ambassador
Date: 2013-06-03 14:12:22 GMT - Qatar - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:138267
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani met here Monday Egyptian Ambassador to Qatar Mohammed Morsi Awad. They discussed ways of enhancing relations between the two countries, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) said. ....
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First military medical college to open in Egypt
Date: 2013-06-03 14:10:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:138261
Defense Minister Abdel Fatah al-Sisi agreed on Monday to open the first Military Medical College in Egypt to be operational at the start of the new academic year. Gamal al-Sarfi, director of the medical services department, told the Armed ....
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Constitutional Court: Bagatu, Shaheen visit to court to probe officers' voting
Date: 2013-06-03 14:02:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:138249
Deputy Head of the Supreme Constitutional Court and Spokesman Maher Sami said the visit paid last Monday to the court headquarters by Minister of Parliamentary Councils Affairs Hatem Bagatu and Assistant Defense Minister Mamdouh Shaheen was aimed at ....
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Deputy director of National Bank of Egypt kidnapped
Date: 2013-06-03 13:57:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:138237
The deputy director of the National Bank of Egypt's head branch was kidnapped and a one-million-pound ransom is demanded. Michel Alyan Habib, an engineer, reported his father-in-law Ezzat Keryakos Makari, 60, missing after he paid them a visit ....