Obama says Putin wrong on Syria but no ‘proxy war’
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama vehemently rejected Russia’s military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region. He vowed not to...
View ArticleSaudi arrests Syrian, Filipina over alleged bomb plot
RIYADH: Saudi authorities say they’ve arrested a Syrian man and a Filipina for allegedly building bombs in the kingdom. The official Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday that the two were arrested in...
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Zamalek face Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel in closed-door game
CAIRO: Egyptian giants Zamalek’s match against Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel in the African Confederation Club’s semi-final will be held without audience, officials at Cairo Security Directorate told Youm7...
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Armed Forces release video footage of 6 October War
Armed Forces release video footage of 6 October War
View ArticleAt least 39 civilians, 14 fighters killed since start of Russian air strikes
BEIRUT: At least 39 civilians, including eight children and eight women, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria in the past four days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on...
View ArticleEgyptian death toll in Mecca hajj stampede rises to 127
CAIRO: The death toll among Egyptian pilgrims in Mecca’s stampede, which killed over 750 people, rose to 127, Youm7 reported Saturday. The number of missing Egyptian pilgrims also rose from 73 to 105....
View ArticleEgypt’s embassy in London restores smuggled pharaonic stele
CAIRO: The Egyptian embassy in the U.K. has restored an ancient Egyptian stele dates back to the New Kingdom’s 19th dynasty (1291B.C. – 1278B.C,) the state news agency MENA reported Saturday. A British...
View Article‘Airport woman’ sentenced to 4 yrs over drug possession, assaulting police
CAIRO: Yasmine el-Narsh, 40, who was the subject of a recent viral video in which she was insulting and beating a police officer at Cairo airport, was sentenced Saturday to four years in prison. North...
View ArticleEgypt’s GASC receives offers in wheat tender – traders
ABU DHABI: The lowest offer in Egyptian state buyer GASC’s wheat purchase tender that closed on Saturday was $189.74 a tonne free on board (FOB) for French wheat, traders said. The offer was made for...
View Articleupdate: At least 16 killed at Afghan hospital after air strike – MSF
KABUL: An air strike killed at least 16 people at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, the aid group said. At least nine MSF staff, four adult patients...
View ArticleDozens of deaths likely from VW pollution dodge
WASHINGTON: Volkswagen’s pollution-control chicanery hasn’t just been victimless tinkering. An Associated Press statistical and computer analysis shows that extra pollution kills between five and 20...
View ArticleChallenge of Gamal, Alaa Mubarak against detention postponed
CAIRO: The challenge of former President Hosni Mubarak’s sons Gamal and Alaa was postponed to Oct. 12 for the defense to present its memos to the court. High-profile lawyer Farid al-Deeb said during...
View ArticleGermany allocates €13M for development of Cairo and Giza’s slums
CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministry of Housing and Urban Societies has allocated part of Germany aid package to Egypt to develop nine slum areas in Cairo and Giza, Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced in a...
View ArticleUK puts off export ban on Sekhemka statue till March 2016
CAIRO: British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has decided to initiate a second deferral period on the export license application of the Sekhemka statue till March 29, 2016. The decision is “to allow a...
View ArticleMilitary requests civilian trackers, manual workers
CAIRO: The military requested civilian tracker guides and manual workers to join the army’s departments of mechanics, electricity and other specialities. A tracker should not be younger than 17 and a...
View ArticleIDB funds 17 projects worth $5.4B in Egypt
CAIRO: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group is funding a total of 17 projects in different sectors in Egypt, announced the Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr. The loan portfolio of...
View ArticleDeath toll of Egyptians killed in Mecca stampede rises to 177
CAIRO: The death toll of Egyptian pilgrims in Mecca’s stampede, which killed more than 750 people, rose up to 177, said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry in a statement Sunday. The total number of the...
View ArticleOwner of boat arrested after 10 Syrian, Iraqi migrants drowned
CAIRO: The owner of a fishing boat was arrested after 10 Syrian and Iraqi migrants on board of his boat drowned Sunday, Youm7 reported. The dead migrants include three children and a woman; their...
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