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Sisi pardons some convicts on Eidul Fitr
Date: 2018-06-11 18:14:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:7440405
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decree No. 260/2018 to pardon some convicts on the occasion of Eidul Fitr. The decision was published in the Gazette out Monday. ....
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Pharaohs training under heavy rains in Gronzy
Date: 2018-06-11 17:55:20 GMT - Chechnya - Sport - SN:13 - ID:7440394
Under heavy rains, Egypt's national football team held a training session one hour ahead of Iftar (fast-breaking). The holy fasting month of Ramadan will end Thursday, a day before the Pharaohs meet the La Celeste. The Egyptian team's star ....
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New massacre by US-led coalition leaves 18 dead in Hasaka countryside
Date: 2018-06-11 16:54:11 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:7440352
The warplanes of the US-led international coalition raided a school in the village of Khoibra in the southeast of Al Shaddadah, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted local sources on Monday. The coalition raid claimed the lives of 18 ....
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National press institutions not to be privatized - parliament
Date: 2018-06-11 16:48:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:7440344
House of Representatives Speaker Ali Abdel Aal stressed on Monday that national press institutions will not be privatized because they play a national role. There is no plan to privatize national press institution and the general assembly of ....
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Cabinet: Work to be resumed at gov't, public institutions Tuesday
Date: 2018-06-11 16:32:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:7440326
An official source at the cabinet said on Monday work will be resumed in government and public institutions on Tuesday, June 19, after the end of the vacation of Eidul Fitr. The source told MENA that the decision includes all ministries, public ....
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Sisi signs decree on Ras Fanar area development
Date: 2018-06-11 16:26:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:7440319
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Monday signed Law No 31/2018 authorizing the Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources to contract with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) to explore oil and develop Ras Fanar area. The decree ....
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Electricity min. to announce new tariff categories Tuesday
Date: 2018-06-11 16:18:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:7440311
Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker will hold a press conference at the ministry's premises in Cairo on Tuesday to announce new electricity tariff categories, ministry spokesman Ayman Hamza said on Monday. The new tariffs ....
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Egypt's parliament rebuffs suggestion to extend mandatory retirement age of journalists to 65
Date: 2018-06-11 15:48:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:7440274
The House of Representatives turned down on Monday a suggestion by MP Moustafa el Bakri to extend the mandatory retirement age of journalists to 65. In a plenary session by the parliament to debate Article 5 of the National Press Authority (NPA) ....
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Exceptional visit authorized for prisoners on occasion of Eidul Fitr
Date: 2018-06-11 15:30:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7440243
Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar has authorized an exceptional visit for all prisoners on the occasion of Eidul Fitr. The visit, not to be counted among designated visits for prisoners, is meant to give the inmates a chance to celebrate the ....
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Sisi: We appreciate role of Azhar, Awqaf in confronting extremism
Date: 2018-06-11 13:43:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:7439994
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Monday voiced appreciation of the role played by Al Azhar scholars and the Ministry of Awqaf in correcting misconceptions and confronting bigotry and extremism. Addressing a celebration marking Lailat al-Qadr here ....