Monitors estimate 11-13% turnout in 1st day of parliamentary elections
CAIRO: The Local-International mission tasked to monitor the Egyptian 2015 parliamentary elections, announced Monday that turnout of the eligible voters in the first day parliamentary voting for the...
View ArticleOil prices slip on Chinese demand concerns, weak Saudi exports
Oil prices fell on Monday on concerns about the pace of economic growth in China, the world’s largest energy consumer, and signs that global oversupply is curbing Saudi crude exports. China’s economy...
View ArticleEgypt attempts to boost election turnout with a half-day off
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have granted given government workers a half-day off in an attempt to bolster low turnout in the country’s parliamentary election. The Cabinet decree, reported in the...
View ArticleU.S., allies conduct 18 air strikes in Syria and Iraq -military
WASHINGTON: A U.S.-led coalition conducted 17 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq on Sunday and also targeted the militant group in Syria with a single strike near Manbij, according to a...
View ArticlePR: PM David Cameron – New counter-extremism strategy ‘clear signal’
The government’s new one-nation Counter-Extremism Strategy launches today to confront and defeat all forms of extremism. Parents concerned that their 16 and 17 year old children are at risk of...
View ArticleEgypt to delay second tranche of international bond issue
CAIRO: Egypt will delay the second tranche of an international bond issuance that had been expected in November, the finance minister said on Monday, highlighting the difficulty the country faces in...
View ArticleTourism Minister receives 1st direct charter flight from Netherlands to Luxor
CAIRO: Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou received the first direct charter flight coming from Netherlands to Luxor Sunday evening, according to a statement by the ministry. Zaazou said the route will...
View ArticleDollar hits 8.57 on the black market
CAIRO: The black market price of a dollar has risen to 8.57, Youm7 reported Monday, the day after a second recent devaluation of the EGP. Egypt’s pound plummeted after the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE)...
View ArticleEGX rebounds on 2nd day of elections, benchmark up 1.1%
CAIRO: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) rebounded on Monday, the second day of the long-awaited parliamentary elections, boosted by local institutions as well as Arab and foreign retailers. The recovered...
View ArticleRussia’s Rosatom CEO in Cairo over Dabba nuclear plant: Reuters
CAIRO: Russia’ state-owned Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation CEO Sergei Kiriyenko has arrived in Cairo International Airport Monday to discuss Egypt’s first nuclear power plant in Mediterranean...
View ArticleSisi, Eni CEO discuss establishment of gas hub in East Mediterranean
The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi meets Eni ‘s CEO, Claudio Descalzi Cairo, 19 October 2015 – The President of the Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and Eni’s Chief Executive Officer,...
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5% of Egyptian expats voted in 1st round of parliament elections: HEC
CAIRO: A total of 35, 000 Egyptian expatriates cast their votes in the first two-day round of the 2015 Parliamentary elections, registering 5.1 percent, Parlmany reported a Cairo-based Egyptian High...
View ArticleNo extension of parliamentary voting for 3rd day: HEC
CAIRO: There have been no orders to extend the elections for a third day, said Egyptian High Elections Commission spokesperson Omar Marwan in a news conference Monday Marwan’s remarks came as a comment...
View ArticleRussia to supply Egypt with technology, helicopters for French Mistral warships
CAIRO: Russia will supply Egypt with military technology and helicopters designed for Mistral-class warships, RIA Novosti reported Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergei Ivanov as saying Monday. The deal, which...
View ArticleTraffic fatalities remain ‘too high’ despite progress: WHO
CAIRO: An estimated 1.25 million people are killed annually in road crashes, the World Health Organization announced in its Global status report on road safety 201, launched Sunday in Geneva. “Road...
View ArticleCairo Airport confiscates 200 KG of Sudanese cow brains
CAIRO: The Cairo Airport confiscated and disposed of 200 kilograms of cow brains that were being transported by six Sudanese passengers coming from Khartoum Monday, Youm7 reported. The Sudanese...
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Sisi, CEO of Rosatom talk nuclear plant construction
CAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met Monday the CEO of Russian owned-state Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation Sergei Kiriyenko to discuss technical and financial offers to construct Egypt’s...
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