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Fahmy meets Lebanese delegations
Egyptian foreign minister in Lebanon to discuss Syria, cooperation
AUC entrepreneurship programme sparks award-winning ideas
Entrepreneurs developed an unmanned mine detector, an educational cartoon, and a smartphone add-on that helps the blind detect obstacles â among other things
Egypt’s Citadel to sell Sudanese Egyptian Bank
Reuters – Citadel Capital is in talks to sell its 66.1% ownership in the Sudanese Egyptian Bank as part of a programme to shed non-core assets, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Citadel is narrowing its focus to energy, transport, agrifoods, mining and cement and plans to gradually shed holdings outside those areas over …
Swiss-Listed Orascom warns on profit amid Egyptian instability
Specific factors hitting Orascom include lower capitalisation of financing costs, the devalued Egyptian currency, but also impairments on investments and a review of its taxation
First week of university classes saw âtremendousâ amounts of rights violations: AFTE
Students express anxiety and fear over the presence of security forces in and around Egyptian campuses as protests continue
Israel bombs Syria army targets after Golan attack
The Syrian army said the air strikes killed one soldier and wounded seven, cautioning that the assault endangered âthe security and stability of the regionâ.
Grand Mufti ratifies execution verdict for 26 accused of terrorism
Convicts facing execution for militant operations in North Sinai
Google expands Android platform to wearables
The move allows developers to create apps for smartwatches, the first phase of the Android Wear platform.
Apple replaces iPad 2 with iPad 4, launches cheaper iPhone 5C
The iPad 4 is available at $399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and $529 for the 16GB Wi-Fi + cellular model at the four major US carriers – AT&T Inc, Sprint Corp, T-Mobile US Inc and Verizon Communications Inc.
Nationâs two most popular teams lose in Egyptian Premier League matches this week
Somouha ties but remains the team with the highest points in groups 1 and 2
MCIT and MOE celebrate completion of education development protocol
The Ministry of Communication and Information technology signed a protocol with the Ministry of Education to develop the technical and industrial education system
Two army officers and five militants killed in Qaliubiya
Bomb disabled in Alexandria courts complex
Al-Sisi reshuffles army leadership
Changes made in the Egyptâs second army and Southern Military District
EU and EBRD advisory support launched in Alexandria for SMEs
Private sector development through support for SMEs is one of the EBRDâs key objectives in Egypt, director says
Cabinet takes measures to eliminate smuggling
Security, legislative, development and services working groups committees established to oversee the elimination of smuggling
ANHRI condemns attack on journalists during press syndicate clash
Rights group calls assaults “clear violations of freedom of expression”
Tourism minister expects 3m Russian tourists by end of 2014
2.4 million Russian tourists visited Egypt in 2013 and spent 23.7m tourist nights
Former Minister of Industry referred to criminal court
Interpol searching for Rashid Mohamed Rashid on charges of receiving illicit gains
Electricity usage awareness campaigns to commence in May
The energy and electricity ministry aims to ration electric power consumption by 20%
High time for high-speed rail: Minister of Transport
By Rehab Saber Egyptâs plan for building its first high-speed passenger rail project, which had been shelved for years has been made a top priority for the interim government, according to Minister of Transport Ibrahim El-Demeiry. El-Demeiry served in the cabinet of former prime minister HazemEl-Beblawi and maintained his post during the cabinet reshuffle in …
SCCT to invest $300m more in Egypt – Laursen
There has been an increase of 15% in the number of vessels received by SCCT
Egypt better off now than it was at beginning of transition: Mansour
Egypt’s interim president anticipates competitive presidential elections
Etisalat’s Egyptian unit considers stock market listing
The last major IPO on the Egyptian exchange was in 2010.
10 Egyptians jailed over anti-constitution vote protest
That demonstration in Cairo called for a boycott of the referendum, as Morsiâs supporters refused to recognise the military-installed government that promised a âdemocratic transitionâ following his ouster.
Crimea asks to join Russia as west readies sanctions
Official results from Sunday’s poll showed 96.77 percent of the voters in the mostly Russian-speaking region opted to switch to Kremlin rule, in the most radical redrawing of the map of Europe since Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia.
Obama meets Abbas in bid to save US peace drive
Obama will meet Abbas after telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that tough decisions are looming ahead of an end of April deadline to agree on a framework for future negotiations.
Three suspected jihadists dead in Tunisia police raid: Ministry
AFP – Security forces killed three suspected jihadists in an anti-terrorist operation Monday in a region of northwest Tunisia where Islamist militants shot dead four people last month, the interior ministry said. The police surrounded a house in the Jendouba region straddling the Algerian border and killed âthree terrorists,â ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said, …
Syria army in hot pursuit of rebels on Lebanon border
The capture on Sunday of Yabrud by Syrian troops and fighters of Lebanonâs Hezbollah marked a significant setback for the rebels as it severs their important supply lines from across the Lebanese border.
Minister of Supply approves General Committee for Foreign Aid budget
Committee aimed at balancing prices of goods to meet citizensâ needs, says minister
Human rights group condemns âattackâ on Kom Al-Deka detainees
Security forces allegedly fired tear gas into a dorm full of minors, attacked protesting parents