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  • 9,900 liters of subsidized fuel seized before sold on black market

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:17:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:107 - ID:819715

    BEHEIRA, July 9 (MENA) - Supply officers succeeded in thwarting an attempt to smuggle about 9,900 liters of subsidized fuel before being sold on black market. Security forces have confiscated the seized fuel. The prosecution has launched an ....

  • Arabs stage rally in Austria against Israel

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:11:42 GMT - Austria - Arab world - SN:106 - ID:819537

    VIENNA, July 9 (MENA) - Hundreds of Arab nationals staged on Wednesday a rally in Austria protesting the Israeli raids on Gaza. Several Arab and Austrian associations advocating human rights have partaken in the rally. They chanted slogans ....

  • Palestinian medics: 49 killed, 450 wounded in Israel air strikes on Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-09 16:08:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:105 - ID:819647

    GAZA CITY, July 9 (MENA) – At least 49 Palestinians were killed and 450 wounded in an intensified Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday. Spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said the death toll of the Israeli strikes ....

  • 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 ....

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