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  • Egypt bourse gains EGP 5.4 bln

    Egypt bourse gains EGP 5.4 bln

    Date: 2018-01-09 16:34:17 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:18 - ID:7182667

    The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) continued registering record highs during Tuesday's trading for the third day in a row, amid purchase operations specially by foreign institutions and investment funds. The market capital gained EGP 5.4 billion to ....

  • France says 3 of its nationals back home after being stabbed in Israel's Eilat

    France says 3 of its nationals back home after being stabbed in Israel's Eilat

    Date: 2018-01-09 16:00:03 GMT - France - International - SN:17 - ID:7182648

    The French Foreign Ministry asserted on Tuesday that the three French tourists who had been stabbed in the Israeli port of Eilat returned to France after receiving appropriate consular support. According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Monday, ....

  • Feqi: BA to confront all forms of extremism

    Feqi: BA to confront all forms of extremism

    Date: 2018-01-09 15:23:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:7182526

    The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has started a new program to deal directly with all kinds of extremism to stamp it out from Egypt, said BA director Mostafa el Feqi has said. In statements Tuesday, Feqi said recent years' bloodshed must end ....

  • Jordan seeks boosting Arab security cooperation

    Jordan seeks boosting Arab security cooperation

    Date: 2018-01-09 15:22:47 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:7182508

    Jordanian Interior Minister Ghaleb Zu'bi discussed with visiting Secretary General of the Arab Interior Ministers Council Mohammed Kuman aspects of boosting joint Arab security cooperation. The meeting took up the agenda of the 35th session of ....

  • Parl't approves bill stiffening penalties  against child kidnappers, foreign employees getting bribes

    Parl't approves bill stiffening penalties against child kidnappers, foreign employees getting bribes

    Date: 2018-01-09 14:39:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:7182447

    The parliament finally approved a bill on amending the panel code with an aim to stiffen penalties against child kidnappers and foreign employees who get bribes. Two thirds of lawmakers who attended Tuesday's session approved the ....

  • Erekat: Palestinian State meaningless unless Al Quds its capital

    Erekat: Palestinian State meaningless unless Al Quds its capital

    Date: 2018-01-09 14:29:44 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:7182416

    A Palestinian State is meaningless without Al Quds as its capital, said Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat on Tuesday. In statements to Voice of Palestine Radio, he added that the US rhetoric on deals for settling the ....

  • Al Azhar, UAE agree on boosting scientific cooperation, promoting moderate ideology

    Al Azhar, UAE agree on boosting scientific cooperation, promoting moderate ideology

    Date: 2018-01-09 14:21:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:7182391

    Al Azhar faculty of Islamic studies for girls and a delegation from the UAE Ministry of Education agreed on Tuesday to boost scientific and cultural cooperation, promote the moderate ideology and Islamic call (Daawa). The agreement was reached ....

  • House Okays bill on conditional release of prisoners

    House Okays bill on conditional release of prisoners

    Date: 2018-01-09 14:13:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:7182362

    The House of Representatives finally approved a draft law introducing amendments to Law no 396 (1956) on the conditional release of prisoners after serving half their term in jail. At its session on Tuesday, under Speaker Ali Abdel Aal, the ....

  • 4 defendants referred to mufti in 'Osem terror cell' case

    4 defendants referred to mufti in 'Osem terror cell' case

    Date: 2018-01-09 14:09:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:7182270

    The Cairo Criminal Court referred papers of four defendants in the case known in media as the "Osem terrorist cell" to Egypt's Mufti before sentencing them to death. The four persons are implicated in committing terrorist operations. The ....

  • Dollar exchange rate drops at Egypt's major banks

    Dollar exchange rate drops at Egypt's major banks

    Date: 2018-01-09 14:03:35 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:9 - ID:7182260

    The US dollar exchange rate went down during morning transactions at major banks on Tuesday. The dollar exchange rate went down by one piaster recording EGP 17.65 for buying and EGP 17.75 for selling at the National Bank of Egypt and Banque ....

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