Egypt to establish biggest fishery in Middle East by Oct. 2016: Sisi
CAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi announced that Egypt is to establish the biggest fishery in the Middle East in East Port Said on area of 23,000 acres by October 2016, according to a Sunday...
View ArticleDeath toll in Syria air strike nears 100: activists
BEIRUT: The death toll from a Syrian government air strike northeast of Damascus neared 100, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday, making it one of the single bloodiest attacks of...
View ArticleParliament gate to better future: Sisi
CAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi called on Egyptian voters to choose their candidates well in the parliament elections, as “the parliament is the trigger for a better future,” Youm7 reported...
View Article44 pardoned Sudanese prisoners still in Egypt’s prisons
CAIRO: The 44 Sudanese prisoners pardoned by President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi before Suez Canal inauguration on Aug. 6 remain in Egyptian prisons, Sudanese sources told Youm7 Sunday. On Aug. 5, Sudanese...
View ArticleBombing of power transformer damages fence of Sharqia railway
CAIRO: Six meters of a fence separating the railway from the Hehya town in Sharqia collapsed after a power transformer outside was bombed early Monday, Youm7 reported. A plan to secure 80 percent of...
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Egypt opens border with Gaza for first time in 2 months
GAZA CITY: Egypt has opened its border with the Gaza Strip for the first time in two months. The Rafah border crossing opened Monday for four days, allowing Palestinians to travel in both directions....
View ArticleSisi’s mother dies in Cairo
CAIRO: The mother of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi died early Monday at Galaa Military Hospital in Heliopolis, presidential sources told Youm7. Souad Ibrahim’s funeral will be held at Field Marshal...
View ArticleCairo University ranks in world’s top 500 universities
By: Mariam Abu Bakr CAIRO: Cairo University has been ranked 409 in the Chinese Classification of 2015, according to a report issued by the Institute of Higher Education of the University of Shanghai...
View ArticleRights delegations to check on prisoners’ conditions amid heat wave
CAIRO: The Ministry of Interior will dispatch a human rights delegation as well as a medical team to prisons and police stations Monday in light of an extreme heat wave that has killed dozens in Egypt...
View ArticleOne-stop-shop to be applied in Egypt’s sea ports: Ministers
CAIRO: Ministers of transport, finance and trade announced the application of the “Electronic Linkage” system inside the sea ports, where the “one-stop-shop” will be applied, Youm7 reported Sunday....
View ArticleAfghan police: German national kidnapped in Kabul
KABUL: An Afghan official says a German woman has been kidnapped in Kabul. Gul Agha Rouhani, Kabul’s deputy police chief, says the woman was taken by two gunmen who stopped her car early Monday...
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Air strikes in northwest Pakistan kill 24 militants: officials
BANNU: Pakistani air strikes killed at least 24 suspected militants in their northwestern strongholds on Monday, intelligence officials said, a day after a bomb killed a provincial minister in the...
View ArticleDar al-Ifta holds conference to counter extremism
CAIRO: Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta held a two-day international Fatwa conference to counter radical extremism entitled Fatwa: current reality and future prospects, with the participation of 50 countries, Youm7...
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Video: Death toll in Syria air strike nears 100
BEIRUT: The death toll from a Syrian government air strike northeast of Damascus neared 100, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday, making it one of the single bloodiest attacks of...
View ArticleHelwan University to exempt special needs students from housing fees
By: Mariam Abu Bakr CAIRO: Helwan University, Cairo, will exempt students with special needs from accommodation expenses, as declared by Vice President of Helwan University and Student Affairs Samir...
View ArticleCivilians bear brunt of air strikes in Yemen
SANAA: Eleven people were killed in another air raid on a family house in the northern province of al-Jawf, bordering Saudi Arabia, tribal sources said. Air stikes also hit the Red Sea port of Hodaida...
View ArticleHala Shukrallah resigns as Dostour party chair
CAIRO: Politician Hala Shukrallah, the first woman to head an Egyptian political party, resigned from her leading position at Dostour party Sunday after it entered a “vicious circle of differences and...
View ArticleEGX dips on foreign institutions’ sell-offs
CAIRO: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) plunged at the close of Monday’s session, battered by foreign institutions’ sales. The benchmark index EGX30 tumbled 0.42 percent to end at 7,594 points, down from...
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