Security and Crime

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  • Yemeni president unhurt after suicide bombing: sources

    Date: 2016-01-28 19:17:42 GMT - Yemen - Security and Crime - SN:102 - ID:4207541

    ADEN, Yemen, Jan 28 (MENA) – Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi is in good condition and unhurt after a suicide bombing targeted the presidential palace in Aden on Thursday, well-placed Yemeni sources said. The bombing occurred outside the ....

  • 47 suspects nabbed, terrorist hotbeds destroyed in N. Sinai crackdown

    Date: 2016-01-28 19:04:14 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:101 - ID:4207629

    ARISH, Egypt, Jan 28 (MENA) - Forty-seven suspects were arrested on Thursday in a wide-scale security campaign in North Sinai, security sources said. The campaign targeted terrorist hideouts in Southern Arish, Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah cities, the ....

  • Top French court rejects scrapping the state of emergency

    Date: 2016-01-27 19:35:50 GMT - France - Security and Crime - SN:114 - ID:4200829

    PARIS, Jan 27 (MENA) - The French Council of State, the highest court on administrative justice, on Wednesday rejected an appeal to suspend a state of emergency imposed after the November 13 Paris attacks, France 24 reported. The appeal, filed by ....

  • India's Jet Airways Kathmandu flight evacuated over security alert

    Date: 2016-01-27 17:45:04 GMT - India - Security and Crime - SN:106 - ID:4200801

    NEW DELHI, Jan 27 (MENA) - Passengers on a Kathmandu-bound aircraft of India's Jet Airways were evacuated minutes before take-off from New Delhi Wednesday due to a security alert, the second such incident this week on the same flight, The Daily Mail ....

  • Sadat metro station closed until Thursday for security reasons

    Date: 2016-01-26 22:44:55 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:129 - ID:4195021

    CAIRO, Jan 25 (MENA) - The downtown Sadat metro station will be closed until Thursday to passengers using the first and second metro lines due to security reasons. Security authorities have requested the closure of the metro, spokesman for the ....

  • Border guards seize two statues with Palestinian man

    Date: 2016-01-26 13:56:00 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:70 - ID:4191969

    CAIRO, Jan 26 (MENA) - Border guards arrested on Tuesday a Palestinian national with two ancient statues in his possession. He is believed to have stolen the artifacts from an Egyptian museum. Border guards nabbed also a person with a machine ....

  • Explosive charge defused in Fayoum

    Date: 2016-01-26 11:46:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:42 - ID:4190381

    FAYYOUM, Egypt, Jan 26 (MENA) - Bomb experts on Tuesday managed to dismantle an explosive device planted by unidentified man beneath a car that was parked near Fayoum police station. Fayoum Security Director Nasser Al Abd received a report that a ....

  • Security forces in N. Sinai defuse two bombs

    Date: 2016-01-26 10:37:37 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:26 - ID:4189593

    ARISH, Egypt, Jan 26 (MENA) - Security forces in North Sinai defused two bombs in western Arish city with no casualties reported. According to security sources and eyewitnesses, two unidentified men planted the two charges in Al Sabeel district ....

  • Home-made bomb goes off near post office in Sharqiya

    Date: 2016-01-25 22:15:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:85 - ID:4187993

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Jan 25 (MENA) - A home-made bomb placed by unknown elements near a post office in Sharqiya governorate went off on Monday, causing no casualties. The blast left damage to the facade of the office, located in the governorate's ....

  • Europol: New-style Daesh group seeks to target Europe

    Date: 2016-01-25 22:04:11 GMT - Netherlands - Security and Crime - SN:84 - ID:4187781

    THE HAGUE, Jan 25 (MENA) - Self-styled Daesh militant group has developed a new "special forces" style of combat to target Europe, the director of the EU's police agency Europol was quoted by the BBC as saying. More attacks like those in Mumbai ....

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