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  • Health Ministry: 10 killed, 5 injured in Helwan church attack

    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, ....

  • Anba Damian condemns terrorist attack on Mar Mina church

    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 ....

  • Egypt pays back 2 billion dollars in debts to int'l bodies in December

    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 ....

  • Egypt faces terrorism with comprehensive development plan: Awqaf minister

    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 ....

  • 3 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, one falls in Israeli territory

    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 ....

  • Egypt's Mufti condemns N. Sinai terror attack

    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 ....

  • Azhar mourns martyrs of N. Sinai terror attack

    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 ....

  • Police kill terrorist in shootout in Sinai: Interior Ministry

    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 ....

  • 51 Houthis killed in Arab coalition air strikes in Yemen

    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 ....

  • Sisi, Saudi crown prince discuss boosting ties

    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 ....

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