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Eighth suspect in Tahrir mass sexual assault arrested
Date: 2014-06-15 09:24:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:778617
CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - Security forces arrested the eighth suspect in a group sexual assault that took place last Sunday during celebrations of Abdel Fattah El Sisi's inauguration. Police managed to arrest the harasser through the cell phone he ....
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62.6% of sexual harassment victims less than 20 years old
Date: 2014-06-15 09:14:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:778613
CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - Studies by the National Center for Social and Criminal Researches showed that 62.6 percent of victims of sexual assault are less than 20 years old and that half of them are less than 15 years old, head of the center said ....
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Tony Blair: 'We didn't cause Iraq crisis'
Date: 2014-06-15 08:37:37 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:778466
LONDON, June 15 (MENA) - The 2003 invasion of Iraq is not to blame for the violent insurgency now gripping the country, former UK prime minister Tony Blair has said as quoted by the BBC. He said there would still be a "major problem" in the ....
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Road accident leaves 13 dead, 10 injured in Haiti
Date: 2014-06-15 08:14:06 GMT - Haiti - World - SN:26 - ID:778457
PORT AU PRINCE, June 15 (MENA) - A lawmaker's car crashed into a transport van in northern Haiti, killing 13 people and injuring 10. A two-month old infant and his mother, who had been sitting near the front of one of the vehicles, were among ....
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76,000 tons of coal arrive at Alex port
Date: 2014-06-15 08:11:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:778456
ALEXANDRIA, June 15 (MENA) - Some 76,000 tons of coal arrived at Alexandria port on Sunday, said head of the port authority Adel Yassin Hamad. The ship, coming from the US, was unloaded smoothly, he added. (MENA) SR/DA ....
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11 election workers killed in Afghan bomb attack
Date: 2014-06-15 08:10:56 GMT - Afghanistan - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:778453
KABUL, June 15 (MENA) - At least 11 people, including four election workers, have been killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan, Sky News quoted officials as saying. The governor of the northern province of Samangan said the attack, which ....
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Russia ready to develop cooperation with Egypt - diplomat
Date: 2014-06-15 08:10:02 GMT - Kuwait - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:778423
KUWAIT CITY, June 15 (MENA) - Russian Ambassador to Kuwait Alexey V. Solomatin reiterated his country's desire to develop cooperation with Egypt. Egypt is an important regional country, he told Al-Rai newspaper out Sunday, calling for helping ....
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Anbar Provincial council asserts state controls 80% of province
Date: 2014-06-15 07:54:41 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:778373
BAGHDAD, June 15 (MENA) - The Anbar Provincial Council member Fateh Al-Essawi asserted on Sunday that the security situation in the province is under control, denying reports on the withdrawal of the Iraqi army from some positions in Anbar. In ....
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British jihadists threat UK, West
Date: 2014-06-15 07:46:31 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:21 - ID:778391
LONDON, June 15 (MENA) - Britons fighting for the al-Qaeda splinter group terrorizing the Middle East have made a series of menacing threats against the UK and the West, The Sunday Times said on Sunday. One fighter — unmasked today as a computer ....
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2 soldiers injured in fake checkpoint in Benghazi
Date: 2014-06-15 07:34:31 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:778377
TRIPOLI, June 15 (MENA) – Two soldiers were injured after unidentified armed men opened fire at them at a fake checkpoint in Al Sabri district of Benghazi, a medical source told MENA on Sunday. Meanwhile, the source said a medical center has ....