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  • 5 people arrested over raping housewife in Qalubiya

    Date: 2014-06-15 20:12:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:149 - ID:779866

    BANHA, June (MENA) – A Qalubiya prosecution ordered to remand five people in custody for four days pending investigations over accusations of abducting and raping a woman in Khanka township. The five arrested persons, in cooperation with five ....

  • 48 militants killed in clashes with Haftar troops in Benghazi

    Date: 2014-06-15 20:05:45 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:148 - ID:779846

    TRIPOLI, June 15 (MENA) – At least 48 members of Ansar Al-Sharia militant group were killed and 68 others injured during clashes with troops of rogue general Khalifa Hater in Benghazi. A number of the group leaders was captured, said Haftar's ....

  • Expats union in Austria mourns Fathia al-Assal

    Date: 2014-06-15 20:02:43 GMT - Austria - Egypt - SN:147 - ID:779849

    VIENNA, June 15 (MENA) -The General Union of Egyptians in Austria expressed its condolences on Wednesday for the Egyptians over the death of Egyptian writer Fathia al-Assal. In a statement, the union said Egypt lost a figure who presented in the ....

  • We will help Ukraine build up military – NATO chief

    Date: 2014-06-15 20:01:32 GMT - Belgium - World - SN:146 - ID:779810

    BRUSSELS, June 15 (MENA) - NATO is preparing measures to help Ukraine defend itself in its stand-off with Russia, and must adapt to the fact that Moscow now views it as an adversary, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview ....

  • US support for Takfiris spreads terrorism: Iran MP

    Date: 2014-06-15 20:01:02 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:145 - ID:779848

    TEHRAN, June 15 (MENA) - The US government’s military support for Takfiri militants is spreading terrorism in the Middle East region, a senior Iranian MP says, as Takfiris continue fighting in Iraq, IRNA news agency reported. "The US support for ....

  • Russian lawmaker slams West for turning blind eye to embassy attack

    Date: 2014-06-15 19:52:59 GMT - Russia - World - SN:144 - ID:779812

    MOSCOW, June 15 (MENA) - Head of the State Duma’s international affairs committee Aleksei Pushkov slammed the West for failing to condemn the Saturday attack on the Russian Embassy in capital Kiev. This means that Ukraine has got carte blanche ....

  • 15 killed as Boko Haram attacked local market

    Date: 2014-06-15 19:51:42 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:143 - ID:779806

    ABUJA, June 15 (MENA) – Fifteen people were killed Sunday as suspected members of Boko Haram stormed a local market Borno state, northern east of Nigeria. Eyewitnesses said that 20 elements of Boko Haram group attacked the local market in Daku ....

  • 7 MB members released in Beheira

    Date: 2014-06-15 19:49:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:142 - ID:779804

    DAMANHOUR, Egypt, June 15 (MENA) – A Beheira criminal court released seven members of the Muslim Brotherhood group pending their trial. The MB members were arrested in November over illegal protest and inciting violence. The court turned down ....

  • UN chief urges immediate end to violence in Ukraine

    Date: 2014-06-15 19:07:21 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:141 - ID:779709

    NEW YORK, June 15 (MENA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Ukrainian law-enforcers and self-defense forces to immediately halt armed hostilities amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine, Itar Tass reported ....

  • New sanitary drainage plant to be established in Beheira

    Date: 2014-06-15 19:06:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:140 - ID:779718

    DAMANHOUR, Egypt, June 15 (MENA) - Beheira Governor Mustafa Hadhoud announced on Sunday that the National Authority for Potable Water and Sewage affiliated to the Housing Ministry agreed to set up a new sanitary drainage plant in Idku township in ....

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