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  • 44 foreign hostages released in Iraq

    Date: 2014-06-19 20:39:30 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:118 - ID:787613

    BAGHDAD, June 19 (MENA) - A group of 44 foreign nationals, who were kidnapped on Tuesday by tribal groups in northern Iraq, have been released. Kirkuk police have received the foreign workers, according to a security source in the province. On ....

  • ISIL opens 8 Sharia courts in Iraq's Mosul

    Date: 2014-06-19 20:37:48 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:117 - ID:787579

    BAGHDAD, June 19 (MENA) – Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) opened eight religious courts in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The Iraqi national media center said on Thursday that the ISIL members also removed a statue of poet Abu ....

  • Terrorist MB supporters stage rally in Suez

    Date: 2014-06-19 20:05:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:116 - ID:787575

    SUEZ, June 19 (MENA) – Supporters of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group staged Thursday a rally in Suez, refusing the court rulings against some of the group senior leaders. Some MB protesters had weapons and used firecrackers during the ....

  • Recent sexual assaults against women strange to Egyptians: official

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:56:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:115 - ID:787573

    CAIRO, June 19 (MENA) – Recent sexual harassment incidents were a strange behavior to the Egyptian society, assistant interior minister for human rights sector Abu-Baker Abdel-Karim said Thursday. In an interview with ON TV satellite channel, ....

  • Egyptian GDRs in London stable

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:52:30 GMT - United Kingdom - Economy - SN:114 - ID:787578

    LONDON, June 19 (MENA) - The Egyptian global depository receipts (GDRs) in the London Stock Exchange (LSE) showed stable performance at the close of Thursday's trading. The GDRs of the Commercial International Bank (CIB) went down by 0.07 ....

  • Isehaqi district of Saladin Province cleared from ISIL - Iraq

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:48:55 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:113 - ID:787535

    BAGHDAD, June 19 (MENA) – The Isehaqi district of Saladin Province, north of Baghdad, was cleansed from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Iraqi Defense Ministry said Thursday in a statement. A joint army and police force, in ....

  • MERS infections in Saud Arabia rise to 705: health ministry

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:45:16 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:112 - ID:787533

    RIYADH, June 19 (MENA) - The Saudi Health Ministry said Thursday the number of infections with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-Cov) rose to 705 people, including 290 deaths. The virus, better known as corona-virus, is new to humans and ....

  • Mahlab inspects new water plant in Beheira

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:43:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:111 - ID:787530

    DAMANHOUR, June 19 (MENA) – Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab inspected Thursday an expansion project in a water plant in eastern el Noubariya, Beheira. The plant produces 86,000 square meters per day at cost of EGP 200 million to supply towns of Abu ....

  • Beheira governor meets German company representatives on renewable energy

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:33:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:110 - ID:787404

    DAMANHUR, June 19 (MENA) – Beheira governor Mustafa Hadhoud met Thursday with representatives of one of the giant German engineering companies to discuss establishing renewable energy power plants. This came amid the country's endeavor to resort ....

  • Pope Tawadros II calls for enforcing law, reforming media and education

    Date: 2014-06-19 19:30:27 GMT - Norway - World - SN:109 - ID:787527

    OSLO, June 19 (MENA) - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese said Thursday addressing the current problems in Egypt required a plan of three elements: enforcing law, reforming education and media. Earlier in the day, Pope ....

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