Topic: Middle East News Agency

At least three people were killed and 257 wounded on Friday as Egyptian protesters and security forces clashed in the worst violence in weeks, overshadowing the vote count in the latest round of a landmark general election.State television reported that three ...
Egypt's interior minister ordered on Tuesday that 54 police officers on trial for killing protesters be transferred to desk jobs in the ministry, security sources said, rather than suspending them.Although on trial, the officers are free on bail and working ...

Over 20 drown as Egypt ferry capsizes: reports

Twenty-two people drowned on Friday when a bus on a ferry fell into the Nile River in a southern Egyptian province, state media reported, revising an earlier death toll down from 43.The official MENA news agency put the death toll at ...

Egyptian police patrols return to streets: state agency

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police patrols returned to the streets of cities Sunday, state's Middle East News Agency reported.Egypt's police were withdrawn after the army were sent in on Friday to restore order in cities amidst widespread anti-government protests.(Writing ...
A former director of the Cairo museum from which a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece was stolen wrote an article in 2007 saying the museum's surveillance cameras were defunct, the official MENA news agency reported Wednesday.The "Poppy Flowers" painting by the ...

Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Tantawi dies: MENA

<div><p>Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning -- died on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia of a heart attack, the official MENA news agency reported.</p><p>Tantawi, 81, was in Riyadh to attend ...

Egypt to release bazaar bombing accused: report

<div><p>Egypt's state security prosecutor on Monday ordered the release of seven people accused over a deadly bazaar bombing in February 2009 that killed a French tourist, the official MENA news agency said.</p><p>Three Belgians, two Palestinians and ...

Egypt recalls ambassador from Algeria

Egypt recalled its ambassador in Algeria for " consultations" on Thursday after attacks against Egyptian football fans in Sudan and businesses in Algiers, the official MENA news agency reported. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition

Tourist killed, 22 people wounded in Cairo bombing

A bomb in a landmark Cairo bazaar killed a French tourist and wounded 22 people, most of them holidaymakers, on Sunday in the first deadly violence against Westerners in Egypt since 2006.The attack struck in early evening in a street lined ...
The Egyptian central bank cut its key overnight interest rates by 100 basis points, citing a fall in inflation and an expected economic slowdown, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Friday. The bank reduced overnight interest rates for deposit ...