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Health Ministry: 10 killed, 5 injured in Helwan church attack
Date: 2017-12-29 13:55:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:7165093
Ten people were killed and five others injured in a terrorist attack on Mari Mina Church in Helwan district, south of Cairo, said Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed. The wounded were moved to Nasser Hospital for Health Insurance, ....
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Anba Damian condemns terrorist attack on Mar Mina church
Date: 2017-12-29 13:53:38 GMT - Germany - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:7165042
General Bishop of Copts in Germany Anba Damian condemned on Friday the terrorist attack on Mar Mina Church in Cairo's Helwan. In statements to MENA, Anba Damian praised the vigilance of the security forces and the way they dealt with the ....
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Egypt pays back 2 billion dollars in debts to int'l bodies in December
Date: 2017-12-29 13:53:13 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:8 - ID:7165018
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) repaid about 2 billion dollars in Egypt’s debts to international bodies in December, a senior official said on Friday. Of the total, 1.2 billion dollars were paid back to the African Export-Import Bank ....
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Egypt faces terrorism with comprehensive development plan: Awqaf minister
Date: 2017-12-29 13:53:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:7164994
Egypt is facing terrorism and the powers of evil with a comprehensive development plan in North Sinai, Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said. "The state is adopting a new strategy to build a modern and strong country which pays the same ....
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3 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, one falls in Israeli territory
Date: 2017-12-29 11:59:00 GMT - Israel - International - SN:6 - ID:7164790
Three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Friday morning, the Jerusalem Post reported. It added that two of the rockets were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. Israel police confirmed that a third ....
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Egypt's Mufti condemns N. Sinai terror attack
Date: 2017-12-29 11:00:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:7164668
Egypt's Mufti Shawqi Allam on Friday condemned yesterday's terrorist attack in North Sinai that targeted an Armed Forces vehicle during a security crackdown, leaving one officer and five soldiers dead. In a statement, Allam said that radical and ....
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Azhar mourns martyrs of N. Sinai terror attack
Date: 2017-12-29 10:59:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:7164659
Al Azhar on Friday mourned the martyrs of North Sinai terrorist attack that targeted an Armed Forces vehicle during a security crackdown, leaving one officer and five soldiers dead. In a statement, Al Azhar stressed that terror attacks will not ....
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Police kill terrorist in shootout in Sinai: Interior Ministry
Date: 2017-12-29 10:58:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:7164651
Security forces on Thursday killed a terrorist in a shootout in the North Sinai city of Arish, the Interior Ministry said. In a statement, the ministry said the national security sector had information that a group of terrorists were planning to ....
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51 Houthis killed in Arab coalition air strikes in Yemen
Date: 2017-12-29 10:57:50 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7164645
Fifty-one Houthi militants were killed, and dozens others wounded in airstrikes launched by the Arab coalition in Yemen's western coast during the past 24 hours, Yemeni military sources said on Friday. A Houthi field leader was among the killings ....
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Sisi, Saudi crown prince discuss boosting ties
Date: 2017-12-29 10:57:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:7164631
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Thursday received a phone call from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The two sides discussed means of boosting the Egyptian-Saudi relations in various fields, presidential spokesman Bassam Radi ....