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  • Trial of Morsi, 130 others in Wadi El-Natroun jail break adjourned to June 28

    Date: 2014-06-15 11:04:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:778888

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - Cairo Criminal Court under Counselor Shaaban Al-Shamy on Sunday adjourned to June 28 the trial of ousted president Mohammad Morsi and 130 defendants in the case known as Wadi EL-Natroun prsion break. The defendants include a ....

  • No more prisoner swaps, Liberman vows after kidnapping

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:54:27 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:778464

    GAZA CITY, June 15 (MENA) - Israel will not release Palestinian prisoners under any circumstances, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Sunday, rejecting chances that Israel would seek a swap to gain the release of three Israeli teenagers ....

  • 2 killed, injured in car accident in S. Sinai

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:53:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:778770

    EL TOR, June 15 (MENA) – A person was killed while another was injured when a truck collided with a car at the international highway in South Sinai. A probe was launched into the incident. (MENA) MM/SR ....

  • AOHR condemns Sudanese authorities over arrest of Mahdi, his family

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:52:43 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:778698

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) has condemned the Sudanese regime over arresting opposition National Ummah Party (NUP) leader Al-Sadeq Al-Mahdi in late May. In a statement released on Sunday, AOHR voiced deep ....

  • Arab FMs to meet in Jeddah over Iraq : AL chief

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:51:35 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:778693

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) – Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Arabi said a consultative meeting of Arab foreign ministers will be held in the coming two days in Jeddah on the sidelines of meetings of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) slated ....

  • UN chief condemns continued violence in eastern Ukraine

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:49:32 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:45 - ID:778476

    NEW YORK, June 15 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest terms the downing of a Ukrainian military airplane in the eastern city of Lugansk, killing all 49 people aboard. “The continuing violence in ....

  • Friedman says disintegration of Iraq "defined" Middle East for century

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:49:08 GMT - USA - World - SN:44 - ID:778716

    NEW YORK, June 15 (MENA) - US writer Thomas Friedman said that the disintegration of Iraq and Syria is upending an order that has defined the Middle East for a century. It is a huge event, and we as a country need to think very carefully about ....

  • Parliamentary candidate shot dead in Kosovo

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:09:02 GMT - Kosovo - World - SN:43 - ID:778768

    PRISTINA, June 15 (MENA) - Kosovo police say a parliamentary candidate from Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's ruling party was shot dead in an apparent assassination as he walked out of a restaurant, ABC News reported. Police said in a statement ....

  • Arab lawyers condemn terrorist acts of Daesh militants

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:08:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:42 - ID:778659

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - The general secretariat of the Arab Lawyers Union on Sunday condemned the terrorist and criminal acts committed by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or better known as Daesh in Iraq. In a statement ....

  • 34 ships transit Suez Canal

    Date: 2014-06-15 10:08:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:41 - ID:778765

    ISMAILIA, Egypt, June 15 (MENA) - Thirty-four vessels transited the Suez Canal on Thursday carrying a total cargo of 2.49 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 15 ships, carrying 743,000 tons and the north-bound convoy included 19 vessels ....

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