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  • Sisi says upgrading tourism key factor in fighting terrorism

    Sisi says upgrading tourism key factor in fighting terrorism

    Date: 2018-05-07 11:12:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7387662

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has pressed for action to upgrade the tourism sector, believing this is a major factor to counter terrorism and extremism. Tourism helps bring peoples closer and create a favorable climate to achieve prosperity and ....

  • CIT minister, on behalf of Sisi, participates in 4th TAS in Kigali

    CIT minister, on behalf of Sisi, participates in 4th TAS in Kigali

    Date: 2018-05-07 10:47:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:7387592

    Communications and Information Technology Minister Yassar el Qadi left on Monday for the Rwandan capital of Kigali to participate in the fourth Transform Africa 2018 Summit (TAS) that will last till Thursday. In a statement on Monday, the CIT ....

  • Putin sworn in as Russian president for fourth term

    Putin sworn in as Russian president for fourth term

    Date: 2018-05-07 10:43:42 GMT - Russia - International - SN:4 - ID:7387571

    Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday to assume office in the fourth presidential term. Putin took the presidential oath in the St. Andrew Hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace. Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin announced ....

  • Azhar ready for teaching Arabic, sending envoys to Brunei - Grand Imam

    Azhar ready for teaching Arabic, sending envoys to Brunei - Grand Imam

    Date: 2018-05-07 09:28:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:7387364

    Brunei's Minister of Religious Affairs Awang Badaruddin bin Awang Othman on Sunday held a banquet in honor of visiting Al Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb. Leaders of religious and judicial institutions in Brunei attended the banquet. Tayyeb ....

  • Health ministry warns against excessive use of 'mosquito coil' & insecticides

    Health ministry warns against excessive use of 'mosquito coil' & insecticides

    Date: 2018-05-07 09:11:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:7387325

    The Health Ministry warned against the excessive use of "mosquito coil" and insecticides as they pose a serious danger to the general health of individuals, particularly children. In statements on Monday, Hend el Husseini, the Director of the ....

  • Erekat calls for boycotting ceremony marking opening of US embassy in Quds

    Erekat calls for boycotting ceremony marking opening of US embassy in Quds

    Date: 2018-05-07 08:33:09 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7387256

    Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat has urged diplomatic missions, NGOs and religious authorities to boycott a ceremony marking the inauguration of the US embassy in Al Quds. Participation will give legitimacy to ....

  • Governor of CBE: Cooperation with IMF to end by end of 2019

    Governor of CBE: Cooperation with IMF to end by end of 2019

    Date: 2018-05-06 20:33:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:7386978

    Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Tarek Amer on Sunday said cooperation with International Monetary Fund (IMF) in implementing the economic reforms program, started by the end of 2016, will be concluded by the end of 2019. Amer made ....

  • Parliament discusses bill regulating land transport services

    Parliament discusses bill regulating land transport services

    Date: 2018-05-06 20:30:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:7386975

    The House of Representatives held a session on Sunday to discuss a draft law on regulating land transport services using information technology. Out of the 19-article bill, just three articles were deferred for discussion at a future ....

  • Pakistani interior minister injured in assassination attempt

    Pakistani interior minister injured in assassination attempt

    Date: 2018-05-06 20:29:52 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:12 - ID:7386974

    Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was shot at and injured during a corner meeting in Narowal's Kanjrur tehsil on Sunday, in what Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif described as an "assassination attempt," Pakistan's Dawn newspaper ....

  • PM: IMF officials assert Egypt on right track

    PM: IMF officials assert Egypt on right track

    Date: 2018-05-06 20:22:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:7386969

    Prime Minister Sherif Ismail on Sunday described his meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton as "fruitful". In statements, the premier noted that the IMF and other international funding ....

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