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  • Global/PRNewswire (1): Record Appetite for Turk Telekom's Inaugural Refinancing Bond Offering Reflecting Record International Investors Unprecedented Confidence in Turkey and Turkish Corporates

    Date: 2014-06-20 12:45:08 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:39 - ID:788409

    ISTANBUL, June 20, 2014/PRNewswire/ -- Turk Telekom's US$ 1 Billion bond offering to refinance short term debt was about 8 times oversubscribed by international investors. This transaction proved to be a landmark issuance as the largest and first ....

  • Sisi congratulates Egypt's community in Austria on near advent of Ramadan

    Date: 2014-06-20 12:35:02 GMT - Austria - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:788324

    VIENNA, June 20 (MENA) - The Egyptian Ambassador to Austria, Khaled Shamaa, Friday conveyed a message by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to Egyptian expats in Austria, congratulating them on the near advent of the holy month of Ramadan. Sisi ....

  • Ukraine military close off border with Russia

    Date: 2014-06-20 12:30:18 GMT - USA - World - SN:37 - ID:788357

    KIEV, June 20 (MENA) - Ukrainian forces have completed an operation to close off the country's eastern border with Russia, CNN reported Friday. The remarks were made by Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov in Ukraine's Parliament session, citing Ukraine's ....

  • Defense minister praises army personnel role in uprooting terrorism

    Date: 2014-06-20 12:28:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:788355

    CAIRO, June 20 (MENA) – Defense and Military Production Minister Sedki Sobhi has praised the role played by the Armed Forces in uprooting terrorism and bringing security and stability nationwide. The remarks were made during a meeting with ....

  • AL mission praises Mauritanian presidential elections

    Date: 2014-06-20 12:15:59 GMT - Mauritania - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:788328

    NOUAKCHOTT, June 20 (MENA) – The head of the Arab League's (AL) secretariat for election affairs praised Friday the presidential electoral process in Mauritania. Ambassador Alaa el-Zuhairi, also head of the secretariat's mission observing the ....

  • 34 Syrians killed, 50 injured in car bombing in Hama countryside

    Date: 2014-06-20 12:03:00 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:788330

    DAMASCUS, June 20 (MENA) - As many as 34 Syrians were killed and 50 others were injured as a car bomb exploded in al-Hurra village near Sahl al-Ghab in Hama countryside, the Syrian official news agency reported on Friday. Opposition activists ....

  • Finland supports WFP’s assistance work in Iraq

    Date: 2014-06-20 11:47:24 GMT - Finland - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:788076

    HELSINKI, June 20 (MENA) - Finland supports the UN World Food Programme (WFP) assistance work in Iraq by donating EUR 500,000, said the Foreign Ministry in a press statement on Friday. The assistance is directed to displaced people in ....

  • Israeli raids target Gaza infrastructure: Palestinian official

    Date: 2014-06-20 11:45:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:788078

    GAZA CITY, June 20 (MENA) – The ongoing raids by Israeli army on the Gaza Strip have directly targeted infrastructure of the besieged enclave. The Israeli army destroyed a dairy factory at dawn Friday, said Iyad al-Bazm, spokesman for the ....

  • Member of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces killed in Bekaa blast

    Date: 2014-06-20 11:08:57 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:788168

    BEIRUT, June 20 (MENA) – A member of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces was killed in a blast that rocked the Dahr al-Baydar crossing in the eastern Bekaa region on Friday, the country's Red Cross said. It said 34 civilians were wounded in the ....

  • Senior Lebanese officer survives Bekaa blast

    Date: 2014-06-20 10:56:08 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:788165

    BEIRUT, June 20 (MENA) – A senior Lebanese police officer survived a blast that rocked the Dahr al-Baydar crossing in the eastern Bekaa area on Friday. Major General Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon's general security said the blast happened ....

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