Fitch Ratings has affirmed Egypt-based National Bank of Egypt's ('NBE') International ratings at Long-term Issuer Default Rating ('IDR') 'BB+' with Positive Outlook and Short-term IDR 'B'.
The Egyptian Seed Association (ESAS) has the pleasure of informing you that the Second International Seed Trade Conference in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) Region will be held in Cairo, Egypt, from 19-21 November 2007 at the Historical Palace of Mena House Oberoi Hotel.
The "Educator" Mick Search of Allentown won his second of the season in the Super Stock 20-lap feature at New Egypt Speedway on Saturday. Search powered by Al Cheney just after halfway and then held off Cheney despite a spirited battle to collect the $1,500 top prize. Cheney settled for second, followed by George Quinlan, Todd Cray and Pete Fogarty.
Nearly 1,600 Palestinians out of 6,000 stranded in Egypt for weeks have made it back to Gaza since Israel started allowing them passage last week, an Egyptian security source said. On Wednesday, 574 Palestinians reached the Al-Oja (Nizana) cargo crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, south of the divided town of Rafah, the official said.
One of Egypt's most prominent secular opposition parties received two serious blows on Tuesday when a court declined to free its ailing leader Ayman Nur on health grounds and handed his job to a rival.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates kicked off a regional tour in Egypt Tuesday seeking to unite Arab allies against Iran's "destabilising" influence.
CAIRO -- Nearly 1,600 Palestinians out of 6,000 stranded in Egypt for weeks have made it back to Gaza since Israel started allowing them passage last week, an Egyptian security source said.
MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Fitch Ratings said it has affirmed National Bank of Egypt's (NBE) international long-term issuer default rating (IDR) 'BB+' with positive outlook and short-term IDR 'B'.
RAFAH, Egypt (AP) — Hidden inside a bedroom closet just feet from a crib and a bed, an Egyptian army officer lifted floor tiles to reveal a hole: the entrance to a tunnel for smuggling weapons extending hundreds of yards across the border into the Gaza Strip.
A third group of several hundred Palestinians stranded in Egypt were allowed to cross into Israel on Tuesday and start their journey back to Gaza, a security source said.