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Egypt FM receives phone call from Australian counter part
Date: 2014-06-21 17:43:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:93 - ID:790423
CAIRO, June 21 (MENA) – Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri received a phone call Saturday from his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop. During their phone call, Bishop congratulated Shourkri on assuming his post and discussed bilateral ....
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Iraq, US officials in security coop. talks
Date: 2014-06-21 17:27:41 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:92 - ID:790321
BAGHDAD, June 21 (MENA) - Acting Defense Minister in Iraq Saadoun al-Dulaimi has met with Brett McGurk, US senior State Department official responsible for policy on Iraq. The meeting tackled the latest developments in Iraq and means of beefing ....
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Body found in Nile, two killed in brawl in Mansoura
Date: 2014-06-21 17:24:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:91 - ID:790362
MANSOURA, Egypt, June 21 (MENA) - Dakahlia security forces found the body of a 22-year old man floating in the River Nile behind Mansoura Culture Palace, with three cut wounds on his left hand. His father accused a person of killing his son, and ....
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MB leader, 182 defendants sentenced to death over Menya violence
Date: 2014-06-21 16:53:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:90 - ID:790249
MENYA, Egypt, June 21 (MENA) - A criminal court in Menya in Upper Egypt sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badei and 182 others to death for their role in violence in Adwah township. The court acquitted 498 defendants in the ....
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Bomb planted under car seat kills Somali journalist
Date: 2014-06-21 16:52:23 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:89 - ID:790320
MOGADISHU, June 21 (MENA) - A journalist in Somalia's capital says a bomb planted under the car seat of a Somali reporter exploded and killed him, the Fox News network reported. Abdinasir Mohamed Ali said that his colleague at Mustaqbal radio, ....
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PM chairs 1st meeting of legislative reform committee
Date: 2014-06-21 16:52:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:88 - ID:790248
CAIRO, June 21 (MENA) - Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab chaired on Saturday a meeting of a newly-formed committee on legislative reforms. The meeting took on the panel's action mechanism and membership. The committee was formed under a ....
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Nigeria receives artifacts looted in 1897
Date: 2014-06-21 16:51:41 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:87 - ID:790319
ABUJA, June 21 (MENA) - The Oba Museum of Benin City, Southwest Nigeria, has taken delivery of two bronze works looted by British soldiers from the Oba palace during the British invasion of Benin in 1897. Adrian Mark Walker, great grandson of one ....
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Housing Minister continues meetings to solve water problems in Giza
Date: 2014-06-21 16:48:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:86 - ID:790296
CAIRO, June 21 (MENA) - Housing Minister Mustafa Madbouli met Saturday with officials of the executive body of water and sanitation, water company, the contracting company that establish water station in Imbaba and consultants to develop urgent ....
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Fugitive Jihadist arrested in Matrouh
Date: 2014-06-21 16:46:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:85 - ID:790232
MARSA MATROUH, Egypt, June 21 (MENA) - A fugitive Jihadist has been arrested in Matrouh while in a bid to flee to Libya. The man, 32, is from Mansoura in the Delta province of Deqahliya. He was sentenced to death in 2013 for joining a Jihadist ....
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Pakistan says 307,501 people have fled North Waziristan
Date: 2014-06-21 16:21:34 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:84 - ID:790199
ISLAMABAD, June 21 (MENA) - A Pakistani government official said the number of people who have fled a tribal area bordering Afghanistan where the army is fighting militants has risen to 307,501. Senior official Arbab Muhammad Arif was quoted by ....