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Interior minister agrees to let 3 prisoners get out for 48 hours
Date: 2013-06-02 14:13:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:136708
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim agreed on Sunday to to allow 10 prisoners to get out of prison for 48 hours to visit their families in accordance with Prisons Regulation Law no. 396/1956. The move is part of the ministry's policy to take ....
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Huge fire guts paint shop in Cairo district
Date: 2013-06-02 14:05:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:136698
A huge fire ripped through a paint shop opposite to South Cairo Court in Cairo District of Bab el-Khalq on Sunday. Ten fire engines rushed to the scene to put out the fire before it is extended to nearby shops, Assistant Interior Minister ....
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Police denies any sectarian sedition in Assiut
Date: 2013-06-02 14:02:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:136696
Assiut Security Chief Major General Abul Qassam Abul Deif denied on Sunday media reports that a sectarian strife flared up between Muslims and Christians in one of the villages. "What happened yesterday was not a sectarian violence but a mere ....
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Japanese PM lauds Egypt's major regional role
Date: 2013-06-02 14:01:10 GMT - Japan - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:136692
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe lauded on Sunday the major role Egypt is playing in the Arab and African world, saying Japan is interested in boosting cooperation with Egypt. Abe, during a meeting with Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil ....
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Nour Party says suffers from 'majority oppression' at Shura Council
Date: 2013-06-02 13:56:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:136681
The Salafi Al-Nour party has complained of "majority oppression" at the Shura Council. Abdullah Badran, head of the party's parliamentary bloc, said the Salafi party suffers from oppression and dictatorship of the majority represented by the ....
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Egypt's high court says Shura Council, constitution-writing committee laws unconstitutional
Date: 2013-06-02 13:54:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:136678
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Sunday of the unconstitutionality of the two laws of the Shura Council (Upper House of Parliament) and the Constituent Assembly that was tasked with writing Egypt's first post-revolution ....
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US concerned over Egypt NGOs law
Date: 2013-06-01 13:39:46 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:135296
US State Department Spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki expressed on Friday her country's concerns over a new draft of a controversial NGOs law in Egypt that was presented by Egypt's presidency this week to Egypt’s Shura Council. The State Department ....
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Qandil, UN official discuss conditions of Syrian refugees
Date: 2013-06-01 13:37:27 GMT - Japan - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:135292
Prime Minister Hisham Qandil met with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres to discuss the conditions of Syrian refugees. Cabinet spokesman Alaa el-Hadidi said Qandil stressed to Guterres the Syrian refugees in Egypt are treated ....
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Egypt firm on maintaining Nile water interests -- Amb.
Date: 2013-06-01 13:35:57 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:135288
Negotiating its water share of the Nile River, Egypt is firm its interests must never be harmed. A delegation of Egyptian experts has been working as part of a technical group of the trilateral committee studying impacts, if any, Ethiopia's ....
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Defendants in Khaled Saied murder case released after ending provisional detention
Date: 2013-06-01 13:17:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:135248
Alexandria Criminal Court Saturday released policemen Mahmoud Salah and Awad Ismail after they ended their provisional detention over charges of killing Khaled Saied. The two have spent more than 35 months in prison pending investigations into ....
