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  • Ashton, IAEA head discuss talks on Iran nuclear program

    Date: 2014-07-03 11:00:58 GMT - Austria - World - SN:41 - ID:809511

    VIENNA, July 3 (MENA) - European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met Thursday with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano to discuss a number of technical issues related to the talks between Iran and ....

  • Defense minister orders treatment of renowned poet at army expense

    Date: 2014-07-03 10:55:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:809474

    CAIRO, July 3 (MENA) – Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi on Thursday ordered moving a renowned poet to the Maadi Military Hospital in Cairo. The minister decided the treatment of Hasan Tawfiq will be at the expense of the armed forces. (MENA) MS/DA ....

  • 95% of services back in October 6 call center: TE

    Date: 2014-07-03 10:49:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:809479

    Giza, July 3 (MENA) - Telecom Egypt Company said Thursday that repair teams managed to restore 95% of telecommunications services for users of an October 6 City's call center. Work is ongoing to fully restore services during the next 24 hours, ....

  • Sisi issues decree allocating lands to GARPAD

    Date: 2014-07-03 10:47:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:809471

    CAIRO, July 3 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued Thursday a decree approving the reallocation of 205.41 feddans of state-owned lands to the General Authority For Reconstruction Projects and Agricultural Development (GARPAD). The ....

  • Police deny bomb report in Sharm El Sheikh

    Date: 2014-07-03 10:24:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:35 - ID:809451

    SHARM El-SHIKH, July 3 (MENA) – A South Sinai police official denies media reports claiming a blast in Hadabet Om El Seed in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh on Thursday. "Such reports were baseless," South Sinai's assistant police chief ....

  • UK steps up airport security after US threat warning

    Date: 2014-07-03 10:22:47 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:37 - ID:809358

    LONDON, July 3 (MENA) - Britain has stepped up security at airports after US officials said they were concerned that al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen were developing bombs that could be smuggled onto planes. "We have taken the decision to ....

  • 2 MB elements sentenced to 10 year in jail over burning Heliopolis metro

    Date: 2014-07-03 10:21:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:809362

    CAIRO, July 3 (MENA) – A Cairo court sentenced two members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to ten years in prison over charges of burning Heliopolis metro, blocking roads and attacking citizens in November. Another person was sentenced ....

  • Saudi ambassador holds banquet in honor of Egypt's FM

    Date: 2014-07-03 09:29:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:809301

    CAIRO, July 3 (MENA) - Saudi Ambassador to Egypt Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz Kattan organized an Iftar banquet in honor of the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. The banquet was attended by Secretary General of the Arab League Nabil al-Arabi, ....

  • MB supporters arrested in Alex over unauthorized protest

    Date: 2014-07-03 09:21:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:809259

    ALEXANDRIA, July 3 (MENA) - Security forces arrested several members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group over staging a protest without a police permit in Alexandria, the country's second-largest city. They were chanting slogans against the ....

  • Japan lifts some North Korea sanctions amid report of surviving abductees

    Date: 2014-07-03 09:20:15 GMT - Japan - World - SN:32 - ID:809320

    TOKYO, July 3 (MENA) - Japan decided on Thursday to ease some sanctions on North Korea in return for its reopening of a probe into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by the reclusive state decades ago, as a fresh report emerged that some of them ....

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