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EGX slumps again on local sales, benchmark down 1.9%
CAIRO: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) continued its losing streak at the close of Monday’s session, hammered by local sell-offs. The market shrugged off a presidential decree issued late Sunday that...
View ArticleSisi invited to 3rd India–Africa Forum Summit
CAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has been invited to attend the third India–Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) scheduled to be held in October in New Delhi, stated presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef...
View ArticleFormer Brotherhood MP, 7 others sentenced to 20 yrs
CAIRO: Eight people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, including former Member of Parliament Mohsen Rady, were sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for being implicated in violence outside the...
View ArticleEgypt to participate in Russia’s MAKS-2015
CAIRO: An Egyptian delegation is to participate in the international military exhibit MAKS-2015 in Russia from Aug. 25 to 30 in the city of Zhukovsky, near Moscow, Youm7 reported Monday. Russian News...
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Renovation of 700 main bridges in Egypt ends by June 2016
CAIRO: The renovation of 700 main bridges determined to be in need of “immediate and rapid” reparations will be finalized by June 2016, Spokesperson for General Authority for Roads and Bridges Abdel...
View ArticleProtest law will not be applied on Sharqiah police: MoI
CAIRO:The 2013 Protest Law will not be applied on a number of protesting low-ranking police officers in Sharqiah, said Minister of Interior Aide Abu Bakr Abdel-Karim Monday. “Their (policemen) sit-in...
View ArticleTwo killed in clashes at Palestinian camp in Lebanon
BEIRUT: Two people were killed in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in renewed overnight clashes between the mainstream Palestinian faction Fatah and hardline Islamists, security sources said. The...
View ArticleActivist Harara quits Dostour Party following Shukrallah resignations
CAIRO: Dostour Party has accepted the resignation of prominent activist Ahmed Harara and two other members, days after outgoing head of the party Hala Shukrallah resigned. Shortly after Shukrallah’s...
View ArticleSaudi soldier killed by Yemen rebel shelling
RIYADH: The Saudi military says a soldier has been killed and three others wounded along the border by rocket fire and artillery shelling from Yemen’s Shiite rebels. A statement released late Monday...
View Article14 arrested in anti-jihadi raids in Morocco, Spain
RABAT: At least 14 suspected members of a cell that recruited jihadi fighters for the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria were arrested Tuesday in a joint operation in Morocco and Spain, authorities...
View ArticleGirl suicide bomber kills 5, injures 41 in northeast Nigeria
DAMATURU: Police say a girl suicide bomber killing five people in an attack at the crowded entrance to a bus station in Damaturu in northeast Nigeria. Assistant Superintendent Toyin Gbagedesin says 41...
View ArticleTurkey’s prime minister appointed to form interim government
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday appointed Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to form an interim government that will lead the country into a new election, likely to take place on...
View ArticleEgyptian social media users call for meat boycott
CAIRO: Social media users have recently launched a campaign calling on individuals, food outlets and companies to boycott meat over its “sky-rocketing price.” In protest to soaring meat prices, Balaha...
View ArticleIslamic State images purport to show destroyed Syrian temple
BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has released propaganda images that purport to show militants laying explosives in and then blowing up the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria’s ancient caravan...
View ArticleEgyptian and Russian universities sign atomic energy education deal
CAIRO: Russian Tomsk State University (TSU) and the Russian University in Cairo signed Monday a joint training program to qualify Egyptian students to be specialists in atomic energy field, ahead of...
View Article2 killed, 8 injured in Beheira road accident
CAIRO: Two people were killed and eight others injured Tuesday in a road accident south of Egypt’s Delta governorate of Beheira, Youm7 reported. The accident took place when a bus driver sped up to...
View ArticleAl-Azhar denounces Baalshamin temple destruction
CAIRO: Al-Azhar denounced the destruction of “Arab heritage,” after the Islamic State group (IS) reportedly blew up the Baalshamin Temple in Palmyra, Syria, a fifth-century Saint Elian monastery, and...
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