UN envoy arrives in Algeria for talks with Western Sahara independence movement
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura arrived in Algeria for talks with the Polisario Front, a pro-independence movement for Western Sahara,
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly Saturday ordered that 16 tourism companies be stripped of their licences and referred their managers to the public prosecutor's office for illegally taking pilgrims to Mecca, the cabinet said.
"The prime minister has ordered the licenses of these companies to be
revoked, their managers to be referred to the public prosecutor and the
imposition of a fine to benefit the families of the pilgrims who died because
of them," the cabinet said in a statement.
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