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  • S. Korea, US to hold high-level talks on OPCON transfer

    Date: 2014-06-15 07:00:59 GMT - south korea - World - SN:19 - ID:778335

    SEOUL, June 15 (MENA) - South Korea and the United States will hold high-level talks this week in Seoul to discuss when and under what conditions to transfer wartime control of South Korean troops from Washington to Seoul, Yonhap quoted South Korean ....

  • Airstrikes kill about 100 militants in Pakistan

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:52:00 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:18 - ID:778349

    ISLAMABAD, June 15 (MENA) - Pakistani military jets pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan early Sunday morning, officials said as quoted by the Voice of America, killing as many as 100 militants in the ....

  • Israel arrest 80 Palestinians, most of them Hamas members

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:37:54 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:778314

    GAZA CITY, June 15 (MENA) – Israeli troops arrested 80 Palestinians overnight Saturday, including Hamas members, in Hebron, Ramallah and Tubas, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Sunday. Among those arrested were members of the Palestinian ....

  • Muslim envoys protest over Canberra's move to rename Israel's 'occupied Territories'

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:24:51 GMT - Australia - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:778293

    MELBOURNE, June 14 - A delegation representing 18 countries has lodged a formal protest over Australia's decision to stop referring to Israeli settlements as 'occupied territories', Bernama news agency reported. Rather, the Australian Government ....

  • 32,443 verdicts executed in 48 hours

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:14:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:778294

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - Security bodies managed to execute 32,443 verdicts in a nation-wide security campaign over the past 48 hours. The Interior Ministry launched the security campaign to arrest the outlaws and enforce the law on the Egyptian ....

  • 39 MB members arrested for police attacks

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:14:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:778305

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - Security forces arrested 39 members of the Muslim Brotherhood for involvement in attacks against police and instigating acts of violence in a number of governorates. They were referred to prosecution for legal action. ....

  • 250 firearms seized, 11 fugitives arrested in wide-scale security campaign

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:05:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:778272

    CAIRO, June 15 (MENA) - As many as 250 unlicensed firearms have been seized over the past 48 hours as part of a wide-scale campaign to arrest outlaws across Egypt. Two workshops for manufacturing weapons has also been detected. Eleven hotbeds ....

  • Western UNSC members block Russia’s draft resolution on Kiev embassy attack

    Date: 2014-06-15 06:00:37 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:12 - ID:778298

    NEW YORK, June 15 (MENA) - Western countries in the United Nations Security Council have blocked Moscow's draft resolution condemning the attack on the Russian embassy in Kiev, Novosti reported quoting a source in the UN. “Western delegations in ....

  • 8 persons with 7 firearms arrested in Giza

    Date: 2014-06-15 05:52:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:778271

    GIZA, June 15 (MENA) – Security forces arrested eight persons with unlicensed seven firearms in possession after they attacked police forces in Giza. Earlier, the defendants opened fire at forces that rushed to a villa in Haram street after ....

  • 124 fugitives arrested in security crackdown in Gharbiya

    Date: 2014-06-15 05:51:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:778269

    TANTA, June 15 (MENA) - Gharbiya Security Director Major General Osama Bedeir said a security campaign in the governorate has resulted in arresting 124 fugitives. In statements late Saturday, General Bedeir also said the campaign resulted in ....

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