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  • Media pros. meet over Supreme Council of Media formation

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:06:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:104 - ID:819636

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) – Media professionals, journalists and media experts have held a meeting on the formation of a Supreme Council of Media. The council will lay down a code of ethics for the press and media. The meeting discussed proposing a ....

  • National team flies to Addis Ababa for African championship

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:04:44 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:103 - ID:819536

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - A team representing Egyptian universities left here Wednesday for Ethiopia to partake in an African championship for individual sports. The team, under Mohamed Taher, comprises 38 players. (MENA) MI/SR ....

  • Fifty bodies found south of Baghdad

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:01:32 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:102 - ID:819262

    BAGHDAD, July 9 (MENA) - Iraqi security forces have found bullet-riddled bodies of 53 men in a mainly Shia area south of Baghdad, BBC reported. The men, who were bound, blindfolded and had wounds to the head or chest, were found in a field ....

  • Agriculture min. urges agriculture competitiveness boost

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:01:00 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:101 - ID:819484

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) – Agriculture Minister Adel El Beltagui has called for enhancing the competitiveness of the agricultural sector. He said the farmers only get a quarter of the profits due to the high costs of the production inputs. "The ....

  • One conscript killed, 4 wounded in blast in Rafah

    Date: 2014-07-09 15:58:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:100 - ID:819684

    RAFAH, July 9 (MENA) - One conscript was killed and four others were wounded in a bomb blast in Rafah on Wednesday, security sources said. The bomb blew up while a military convoy was on the way for raiding military hotbeds in Rafah in northern ....

  • Israel forced not to punish Hamas so severely for fear of power vacuum in Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-09 15:48:35 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:99 - ID:819482

    LONDON, July 9 (MENA) - Israel will be forced to tread a delicate line between punishing Hamas and creating a power vacuum that could allow al Qaeda-linked groups take its place Gaza, a military experts told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday. Even ....

  • Govt initially agrees to sign MoU with Virus C vaccine manufacturer

    Date: 2014-07-09 15:48:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:98 - ID:819621

    CAIRO, July 9 (MENA) - The cabinet initially agreed to sign a memo of understanding with the manufacturer of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine, said Health Minister Adel Adawi. The company will release 225,000 doses of the vaccine and treatment ....

  • Abbas says he asked Sisi to call for abding by 2012 truce

    Date: 2014-07-09 15:45:55 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:97 - ID:819535

    RAMALLAH, July 9 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that he made a phone call to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and asked him to call upon the parties concerned with the Palestinian cause to abide by the 2012 ....

  • Maliki accuses Kurds of turning Irbil to Daash military base

    Date: 2014-07-09 15:36:45 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:96 - ID:819474

    BAGHDAD, July 9 (MENA) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accused on Wednesday Kurds of turning Irbil to a Daash military base. Iraq will not stand silent while Irbil, which is under the Kurdish control, is being turned to a military base ....

  • Afghan civilian death toll up by 24% in 2014: UN

    Date: 2014-07-09 15:33:25 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:95 - ID:819449

    KABUL, July 9 (MENA) - Civilian casualties in Afghanistan soared by 24 per cent in the first half of 2014, according to a UN report released today. Ground combat is now causing more deaths and injuries than improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in ....

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