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Tunisia reports 2,091 new coronavirus infections, 65 fatalities

Date: 2021-06-16 21:44:04 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:114 - ID:9014490

TUNIS, June 16 (MENA) – Tunisia registered 2,091 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total to 374,312, the Ministry of Public Health announced in a statement Wednesday. As many as 65 people died from the virus, ....

14 Daesh terrorists arrested in Kirkuk, Nineveh

Date: 2021-06-16 20:29:02 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:111 - ID:9014409

BAGHDAD, June 16 (MENA) - Iraqi's Security Media Cell announced the arrest of six prominent Daesh terrorists in Kirkuk, NINA reported Wednesday. In a statement carried the news agency, the Ministry of Interior's Agency for Intelligence and ....

Roadside bomb target int’l coalition military convoy in Iraq

Date: 2021-06-16 20:12:22 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:108 - ID:9014355

BAGHDAD, June 16 (MENA) – A roadside bomb went off Wednesday, targeting an international coalition military convoy in Anbar governorate, western Iraq, an Iraqi security source said. No casualties were reported, it added. Military convoys are ....

Morocco reports 500 new Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths in 24 hours

Date: 2021-06-16 19:48:42 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:106 - ID:9014356

RABAT, June 16 (MENA) - Morocco's Covid-19 tally rose on Wednesday to 524,975 as 500 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, the Moroccan Ministry of Health said in a statement. The statement added that the death toll from the ....

More than 9.3 mln received 1st dose of coronavirus vaccine in Morocco

Date: 2021-06-16 18:59:13 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:102 - ID:9014267

RABAT, June 16 (MENA) - The number of people who received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine reached 9,369,489, while 7,683,878 people were fully vaccinated (1st and 2nd doses), Maghreb Arabe Presse reported. Meantime, 500 new cases with ....

AL asserts interest in sustainable development

Date: 2021-06-16 18:48:51 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:99 - ID:9014259

CAIRO, June 16 (MENA) - The Arab League (AL) is paying great attention to sustainable development file, said the director of the intellectual and competitive department of the pan-Arab organization plenipotentiary Maha Bekheit. Sustainable ....

Algeria reports 343 new cases, 10 deaths in last 24 hours

Date: 2021-06-16 18:37:08 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:96 - ID:9014298

ALGIERS, June 16 (MENA) - The health authorities in Algeria said that as many as 343 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported, bringing the case load to 134,458 over the last 24 hours in Algeria. The death tally rose to 3,598 following ....

Iraq will remain impenetrable to seditionists, destabilizing agents: Iraqi president says

Date: 2021-06-16 18:24:22 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:94 - ID:9014199

BAGHDAD, June 16 (MENA) - Iraq will remain resistant and impenetrable to those who want to stir up sedition or those who try to tamper with its security and stability through the cohesion and unity of its sons and national forces, Iraqi President ....

Lebanon's information min. welcomes naming Beirut capital of Arab media

Date: 2021-06-16 18:14:45 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:91 - ID:9014013

CAIRO, June 16 (MENA) - Lebanon's Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad welcomed the "unanimous approval of the Council of Arab Information Ministers on her two proposals, one for launching the "Beirut Humanitarian Award" and, another ....

Arab information ministers call for unified media strategy

Date: 2021-06-16 17:37:22 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:80 - ID:9013835

CAIRO, June 16 (MENA) - President of the Executive Office of the Arab Information Ministers Council Meghad Abul Heil has called for activating guidelines on regulating religious discourse in the Arab media, stressing the importance of their ....