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Ex-secretary urges school boycott to press new gun laws in US
Date: 2018-05-20 08:54:38 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:7408636
Former US Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called on parents to pull "their children out of schools until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. "Parents should pull their children out of ....
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Iraqi forces hunt Daesh terrorists in Diyala, Salahuddin
Date: 2018-05-20 08:17:52 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7408577
Joint Iraqi security forces have continued hunting members of the terrorist organization of Daesh in border villages between the provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin, a senior security official said on Sunday. The operations are carried out in ....
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Albania seeks to promote economic, trade cooperation with Egypt - amb.
Date: 2018-05-20 08:14:51 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:4 - ID:7408572
Albanian Ambassador to Egypt Eduard Sulo stressed that his country seeks to promote economic and trade cooperation with Egypt. In an interview with MENA, the diplomat said the trade exchange between the two countries hit 22 million dollars last ....
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Iraq's incumbent PM meets Shiite leader Sadr
Date: 2018-05-20 07:32:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7408502
Iraqi incumbent Prime Minister Haider Abadi met with Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al Sadr, whose bloc has won parliamentary elections. The meeting, late on Saturday, came shortly after the announcement of the poll's results. Sadr's ....
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Awqaf minister opens Islamic thought forum in Cairo
Date: 2018-05-20 07:29:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:7408494
Egypt's Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, who also heads the supreme council of Islamic affairs, inaugurated on Saturday the Islamic thought forum at Al-Hussein Square outside Al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo. The opening was also attended by the ....
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Shiite leader Sadr urges peace, unity in Iraq
Date: 2018-05-20 07:27:06 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7408488
Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al Sadr, whose bloc has won parliamentary elections in Iraq, has called for unity, peace, fraternization among followers of different sects and religions in his country. "We are still advocates of unity, peace and ....
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Interior min. inspects security services in Cairo, Giza
Date: 2018-05-19 19:46:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7408300
Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar inspected Saturday security services in Cairo and Giza governorates to make sure that all security plans are implemented during the holy month of Ramadan. Abdel Ghaffar also inspected Mostafa Mahmoud and ....
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Egypt urges resolving current crises to avoid losing confidence in UN
Date: 2018-05-19 19:44:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:7408298
Egypt’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Mohamed Idris underscored the importance of swiftly resolving the current crises, topped by the Palestinian cause, in order to avoid further losing the international community’s confidence in ....
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Armed Forces, Australian company sign deal to separate economic minerals in Burullus
Date: 2018-05-19 19:41:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:7408295
The Egyptian Black Sand Company (EBSC) and the Australian Minerals Technologies Inc. signed a contract to embark on a project meant to provide equipment to establish two factories for the concentration and separation of black sand economic minerals ....
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Sisi orders continuing efforts to upgrade electricity, petroleum sectors
Date: 2018-05-19 17:43:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:7408215
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued directives on Saturday to persist with the efforts meant to upgrade the electricity and petroleum sectors in order to improve the services provided and meet Egypt’s development requirements of energy. Sisi’s ....