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  • Sisi endorses amendments to private, non-profit univ. law

    Sisi endorses amendments to private, non-profit univ. law

    Date: 2019-08-06 07:41:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:8053949

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi enacted Tuesday Law no. 143 of 2019 on amending some provisions of private and non-profit universities Law no. 12 of 2019. The amendments stipulate the inception of a council for private and non-profit universities ....

  • Sisi okays amendments to investment law

    Sisi okays amendments to investment law

    Date: 2019-08-05 18:41:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:8053584

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Monday approved law no. 141/2019 to amend some provisions of the investment law no. 172/2017. The amendments allow expansions of existing investment projects to benefit from incentives provided to new ones. The ....

  • EU denounces National Cancer Institute terror attack

    EU denounces National Cancer Institute terror attack

    Date: 2019-08-05 17:30:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:8053501

    The European Union (EU) has condemned a terror attack, which occurred last night outside the National Cancer Institute, leaving dozens dead and injured. "With details on tonight's explosion being revealed, I strongly condemn this deplorable ....

  • Egypt’s former amb. to Iraq hails timing of Arab tripartite meeting

    Egypt’s former amb. to Iraq hails timing of Arab tripartite meeting

    Date: 2019-08-05 17:16:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:8053483

    Egypt’s former ambassador to Iraq Ahmed Darwish on Monday praised the timing of the Arab tripartite meeting hosted by Baghdad in light of big challenges that face the region. Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held a meeting Sunday with his ....

  • Interior ministry says NCI terrorist attack caused by booby-trapped car

    Interior ministry says NCI terrorist attack caused by booby-trapped car

    Date: 2019-08-05 16:33:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:8053424

    Investigations carried out by the Interior Ministry found that a booby-trapped car was behind a terrorist attack outside the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Cairo last night, leaving scores dead and wounded. In a press statement, the ministry ....

  • Dollar prices stable at major banks, demand for riyal increases

    Dollar prices stable at major banks, demand for riyal increases

    Date: 2019-08-05 16:09:25 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:7 - ID:8053391

    The exchange rate of the US dollar was relatively stable during transactions on Monday at major banks, after a wave of declines witnessed over the past period that has caused the price of the dollar to drop by more than 130 piasters since the ....

  • Sisi hold talks with Brunei sultan

    Sisi hold talks with Brunei sultan

    Date: 2019-08-05 15:50:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:8053367

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held on Monday talks with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei at Itihadiya presidential palace after playing the national anthems of the two countries, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said. Welcoming Bolkiah and ....

  • Sisi condoles with victims’ families of Cancer Institute terrorist bombing

    Sisi condoles with victims’ families of Cancer Institute terrorist bombing

    Date: 2019-08-05 15:15:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:8053292

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Monday sent his condolences to the families of victims killed in a terrorist explosion targeting the National Cancer Institute. “I offer my sincere condolence to the Egyptian people and families of the victims ....

  • PM in talks over paying exporters' arrears, export promotion efforts

    PM in talks over paying exporters' arrears, export promotion efforts

    Date: 2019-08-05 14:42:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:8053217

    Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli instructed on Monday forming a working group to pay overdue payments to exporters as agreed in July. He said 1.5 billion pounds will be paid to exporters every three months to reach 6 billion pounds in one ....

  • Trump: 'Perhaps more has to be done' on gun violence

    Trump: 'Perhaps more has to be done' on gun violence

    Date: 2019-08-05 13:13:37 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:8052972

    President Donald Trump weighed in on two mass shootings that occurred 13 hours apart in Texas and Ohio, acknowledging "perhaps more has to be done" to address gun violence, CNN reported. "We've done actually a lot," Trump told reporters of his ....

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