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Ma'an News AgencyThe Egyptian security sources said that Egypt's authorities seized 16 African migrants trying to cross into Israel near the Karem Abu Salam crossing on Monday.They detained 16 migrants including an Egyptian citizen, the sources said.Egypt detained eight migrants from Eritrea, five Sudanese, two Ethiopians, and an Egyptian. They were all referred to investigation and are being -
World BulletinPalestinian Government in Gaza announced that the tunnels between Egypt and Gaza were closed, and the border was declared as a military zone. "The tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, where the smuggling and shipment of some goods were made, were closed, and the border was declared as a closed military zone," said a written statement of the Ministry of -
APIran's election overseers say they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a clear nod toward a former president.The entry of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, into the election race could reduce chances for conservatives loyal to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the 14 June vote.Rafsanjani's opponents say he is too old to run -
Egyptian presidential spokesman Omar Amer on Monday described ongoing Egyptian military deployments in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as "standard, considering the current situation."Early Monday, the Egyptian army sent dozens of armoured vehicles and personnel carriers across the Suez Canal into North Sinai.The move follows the kidnapping last Thursday of seven Egyptian security officers by -
The Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said Monday that the numbers of German tourists visiting Egypt in March and April of this year was higher than the same period in 2010.A total of 226,000 German tourists visited the country in the last two months, a two percent rise on the figures for March and April 2010, which was considered a year of flourishing tourism, said the minister. In 2010, -
Egypt's main stock index slid 0.31 percent on Monday to sit at 5,432.15 points, as a North Sinai hostage crisis entered its fifth day.A total of 108 stocks fell on Monday, as nervous Egyptian and Arab investors net sold a combined LE6.38 million worth of shares."The continued lack of resolution to the hostage situation in Sinai has made investors nervous," Ashraf Abdel-Aziz, head of institutional -
AFPIsrael on Monday announced it was cancelling a United Nations delegation scheduled to begin an investigative mission in Jerusalem's Old City, due to Palestinian "politicisation" of the mission."The Palestinians were not respecting the understandings. The visit was supposed to be professional, (but) they were taking measures that showed they were politicising the event and not letting the -
Egypt U-20 national team coach Rabie Yassin reveals that he expected to lose to Jordon in a friendly, but he had not imagined this huge 4-0 loss."Losing to Jordon is expected, since we lost more key players throughout the friendly," Yassin told a television programme after the game on Sunday."It's the first camp for the team after the African Champions League triumph 50 days ago, so we are not -
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said Monday that Turkey will increase its $1 billion credit line to Egypt by $250 million.Turkey was expected to transfer the remaining $1 billion of a $2 billion budget support package agreed last year for Egypt this month.Under the Egyptian-Turkish agreement, announced last September during a visit to Ankara by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Turkey's -
ReutersA Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination.Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a 11 May general
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World BulletinPalestinian Government in Gaza announced that the tunnels between Egypt and Gaza were closed, and the border was declared as a military zone. "The tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, where the smuggling and shipment of some goods were made, were closed, and
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ReutersA Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination.Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup,
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Egypt U-20 national team coach Rabie Yassin reveals that he expected to lose to Jordon in a friendly, but he had not imagined this huge 4-0 loss."Losing to Jordon is expected, since we lost more key players throughout the friendly," Yassin told a television programme after the game on Sunday."It's
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APIran's election overseers say they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a clear nod toward a former president.The entry of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 78, into the election race could reduce chances for conservatives loyal to Iran's Supreme
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Egypt's main stock index slid 0.31 percent on Monday to sit at 5,432.15 points, as a North Sinai hostage crisis entered its fifth day.A total of 108 stocks fell on Monday, as nervous Egyptian and Arab investors net sold a combined LE6.38 million worth of shares."The continued lack of resolution to
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One third of Egyptian households had internet access in 2012, three million more than in 2011, Egypt's official statistics agency CAPMAS announced on Saturday.Following ten years of gradually increasing internet penetration, national Internet use spiked following Egypt's January 2011 revolution,
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Ministers in Prime Minister Hisham Qandil's cabinet following the recent reshuffle (new appointees are in italics): 1. Minister of Agriculture Ahmed Mahmoud Ali El-Gizawi2. Minister of Antiquities Ahmed Eissa3. Minister of Aviation Wael Maadawi4. Minister of Communication Atef Helmy5. Minister of Culture
AP— April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 140.— January 17, 2011: A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Washington, meant to kill and injure participants in a civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White
The convenient marriage between Iran and the Arab left would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, given the traditional ideological paradoxes between patriarchal Persian Shiism, on the one hand, and leftist orthodoxy on the other.Indeed, a casual viewer of Hizbullah's Al-Manar television, or the Iranian-funded Al-Mayadin TV, these days would probably think that the two Shia propaganda
"Abdullah's appointment was done via constitutional decree; it was a sovereign act by the head of the executive and therefore cannot be reversed by court ruling," said one leading FJP/Brotherhood figure. His comments echoed earlier assertions by Brotherhood lawyer Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Maksoud.The return of former prosecutor-general Mahmoud is "not going to happen," according to several government
