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4 engineering students held over burning police car
Date: 2014-06-29 18:32:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:96 - ID:803921
MANSOURA, June 29 (MENA) – A Mansoura prosecution ordered on Sunday to hold in custody four students of Mansoura engineering faculty who are implicated in burning a police car in the province. The defendants face charges of attempted murder of ....
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Orthodox Church mourns adviser to Azhar Grand Imam
Date: 2014-06-29 18:27:51 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:95 - ID:804013
CAIRO, June 29 (MENA) - The Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the death of Mahmoud Azab, an adviser to Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El Tayyeb, who died earlier in the day. In a press release, the church mourned the 'patriotic man' and ....
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Scores killed in attacks on churches northeast of Nigeria
Date: 2014-06-29 18:24:44 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:94 - ID:804005
ABUJA, June 29 (MENA) - Suspect Boko Haram Islamists armed with explosives attacked a series of churches on Sunday near Chibok, the northeastern town where more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped in April, France 24 reported. According to ....
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16 MB members get 2-year jail term in Gharbiya
Date: 2014-06-29 18:15:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:93 - ID:804014
TANTA, Egypt, June 29 (MENA) - Tanta Appeals Court sentenced on Sunday 16 Muslim Brotherhood members to two years in prison over violence and riot charges. Two others were acquitted. Earlier, Tanta Misdemeanor Court had sentenced the ....
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Aid convoy enters Gaza via Rafah crossing
Date: 2014-06-29 18:14:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:92 - ID:803994
GAZA CITY, June 29 (MENA) – The “Miles of Smiles 28” aid convoy made it into the Gaza Strip via Rafah border crossing, the Hamas-run sacked Palestinian government in Gaza said. The convoy was in part of relief convoys which support Gazans and ....
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Rouhani calls for enhancing coop. among regional countries to fight terrorism
Date: 2014-06-29 18:09:45 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:803996
TEHRAN, June 29 (MENA) - Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has reaffirmed the importance of strengthening cooperation among regional countries to combat terrorists, stressing that the era of violence and terrorism has passed, Press TV reported ....
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Israel sends emergency delegation to US: Report
Date: 2014-06-29 18:05:23 GMT - Israel - World - SN:90 - ID:803993
GAZA CITY, June 29 (MENA) - A high-ranking Israeli delegation will leave Sunday morning for urgent talks in Washington as negotiations between world powers and Iran enter their final stages, Ynet news reported. Washington agreed to attend the ....
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Pope asks Iraq leaders to use dialogue to avoid further warfare
Date: 2014-06-29 17:57:18 GMT - Vatican - Miscellaneous - SN:89 - ID:803995
VATICAN, June 29 (MENA) - Pope Francis asked Iraq leaders to use dialogue to avoid further warfare there, Fox News reported Sunday. During his weekly address in St. Peter's Square after Mass, Pope Francis said: "The news from Iraq is ....
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Attempt to smuggle pages of ancient Egyptian book foiled at Cairo airport
Date: 2014-06-29 17:44:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:88 - ID:803991
CAIRO, June 29 (MENA) - Cairo International Airport police together with cargo customs authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle 22 pages of an ancient book written during the French army's expedition of Egypt out of the country. The pages ....
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2 MBs arrested for instigating violence in Beheira
Date: 2014-06-29 17:21:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:87 - ID:803978
DAMANHOUR, June 29 (MENA) - Two members of the terrorist Moslem Brotherhood were arrested on Sunday for instigating violence and protesting illegally in the Nile Delta governorate of Beheira. The two, in their forties, were arrested and referred ....