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Ma'an News AgencyThree young Bedouin children sustained serious injuries when a landmine exploded Thursday morning in Sheikh Zuwaid, a Ma'an reporter said.The landmine was believed to be leftover from a previous conflict.The three children, all brothers, were playing when the landmine exploded. They were seriously injured and transferred to el-Arish's general hospital, the reporter -
Egypt's pound has continued its slump, hitting a new low against the US dollar despite recent foreign currency injections from Libya and Qatar and a relative improvement in tourism.The official exchange rate has reached LE7 against the dollar at commercial banks in Egypt, a rate unseen since 2003."While Egypt has seen injections of foreign currency from Qatar and Libya in the past few weeks, the -
Egyptian Sports Minister El-Amry Farouk on Thursday announced his decision to temporarily appoint Galal Ibrahim as chairman of Cairo's Zamalek football club in order to supervise the upcoming election of the club's board.Ibrahim is slated to take charge of the club's activities from 28 May until a new board is elected in September.Farouk announced new club regulations to the media after the -
ReutersEgypt's central bank sold $38.5 million to banks in a foreign exchange auction on Thursday at a cut-off price of LE6.9660 to the dollar. The cut-off price at the previous auction on Wednesday was LE6.9591.On the black market, one dealer offered to buy dollars for LE7.30 and to sell dollars LEat 7.37 - similar to Wednesday's levels. Earlier this week, one dealer quoted 7.45/55.The central -
Hamas, the Islamic movement that controls the Gaza Strip, beefed up security checkup Thursday on the coastal enclave's southern border with Egypt after the abduction of six Egyptian security personnel in Sinai Peninsula.Hamas policemen and security forces were deployed along the 12 km borderline, especially in the area between the beach and Rafah crossing point, where hundreds of underground -
Several Egyptian political forces have called for a series of protests in support of an anti-Morsi petition drive — Tamarod, or "Rebel" campaign — to kick off Friday.A million-man rally is scheduled for Friday with the aim of decrying the imprisonment of political activists and pressing for early presidential polls.The signature-collecting movement, which aims to gather 15 million -
Ma'an News AgencyGaza's Interior Ministry announced a state of alert along its border with Egypt on Thursday after gunmen kidnapped seven Egyptian soldiers and police officers in Sinai.The Hamas-run ministry said security was heightened in case the kidnappers tried to smuggle the Egyptian servicemen into the Gaza Strip.Witnesses told Ma'an that Egyptian forces closed seven smuggling tunnels in -
Kuwait News AgencyEgyptian President Mohammad Morsi is keen on holding the justice conference and will make sure that resolutions from the event will be forwarded to the legislative council for deliberation, said a Presidential spokesman here late Wednesday.Spokesman Amr Amer told the press that President Morsi was keen on providing sovereignty to each authority in Egypt, to enable them to
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A number of prominent figures, during thier participation in "Arab Jerusalem Conference forever" conference organized by a number of Nasiri parties and movements, signed Egyptian Anti-president form.And comes on top of figures that have signed the form, Abdel Hakim Abdel Nasser, son of the Egyptian late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.Meanwhile, a number of Nasiri parties and movements has launched -
Egypt's security sources said on Thursday that the Egyptian army prepares to a military operation on extremist armed groups in Sinai after kidnapping 7 security men.Central Security sector announced that armed groups in Sinai have kidnapped a 7 security men during thier monthly leave. And there are fears of smuggling them to the Gaza Strip through the
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Several Egyptian political forces have called for a series of protests in support of an anti-Morsi petition drive — Tamarod, or "Rebel" campaign — to kick off Friday.A million-man rally is scheduled for Friday with the aim of decrying the imprisonment of political activists and pressing
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AFPPrime Minister David Cameron faces a showdown in parliament with eurosceptics on Wednesday over his plans for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.Disgruntled backbenchers from Cameron's Conservative party have tabled a parliamentary motion expressing "regret" that the
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Egyptian Sports Minister El-Amry Farouk on Thursday announced his decision to temporarily appoint Galal Ibrahim as chairman of Cairo's Zamalek football club in order to supervise the upcoming election of the club's board.Ibrahim is slated to take charge of the club's activities from 28 May until a
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Hamas, the Islamic movement that controls the Gaza Strip, beefed up security checkup Thursday on the coastal enclave's southern border with Egypt after the abduction of six Egyptian security personnel in Sinai Peninsula.Hamas policemen and security forces were deployed along the 12 km borderline,
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ReutersEgypt's central bank sold $38.5 million to banks in a foreign exchange auction on Thursday at a cut-off price of LE6.9660 to the dollar. The cut-off price at the previous auction on Wednesday was LE6.9591.On the black market, one dealer offered to buy dollars for LE7.30 and to sell dollars
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ReutersActor Leonardo DiCaprio and Christie's auction house raised nearly $32 million for environmental causes on Monday at a charity art auction.DiCaprio, the star of the new film "The Great Gatsby," organized the so-called The 11th Hour Auction along with his foundation and Christie's to protect
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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
