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  • Sudan opposition chief's daughters held at protest

    Date: 2014-06-13 20:02:14 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:115 - ID:776589

    KHARTOUM, June 13 (MENA) - Sudanese police on Friday detained four daughters of opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi as they violently broke up a protest demanding freedom for political prisoners. "Police used violence and arrested 17 people including ....

  • Palestinian security has no control on area of kidnapped settlers: spokesman

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:59:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:114 - ID:776562

    RAMALLAH, June 13 (MENA) – A Palestinian spokesman said the area in which three young Israeli settlers were kidnapped is witnessing detentions and security activities by the Israeli side and that the Palestinian security has no control on this ....

  • Military funeral held for slain policeman in Gharbiya

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:57:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:113 - ID:776584

    TANTA, June 13 (MENA) - A military funeral was held Friday in the Nile delta city of Tanta for a policeman who was gunned down in Cairo's southern suburb of Hadaaek El Maadi. The funeral was attended by Gharbiya security chief Maj. Gen. Osama ....

  • Union of Egyptian expats in Austria mourns prominent journalist

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:53:32 GMT - Austria - Egypt - SN:112 - ID:776599

    VIENNA, June 13 (MENA) - The union of Egyptian expats in Austria mourned prominent journalist Abdullah Kamal who died early on Friday at the age of 49 of a heart attack. Kamal's sudden departure is a grave loss to the journalistic profession in ....

  • "Libyan Revolutionaries" claims responsibility for shelling Haftar troops

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:25:32 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:111 - ID:776559

    TRIPOLI, June 13 (MENA) - The Libyan Revolutionaries Joint Operations Room claimed responsibility Friday for an operation against troops of Libya's renegade General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi. The room said in a Facebook statement that Benghazi ....

  • 3 Jewish teens disappear near Hebron in West Bank

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:15:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:110 - ID:776563

    RAMALLAH, June 13 (MENA) - Israeli soldiers were searching the West Bank on Friday after three Jewish teens — one of them an American citizen — vanished in a possible kidnapping. An Israel police spokesman said one of the teens called authorities ....

  • UN: Iraq witnesses dramatic deterioration including executions and extrajudicial killings

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:13:02 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:109 - ID:776558

    NEW YORK, June 13 (MENA) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has expressed extreme alarm at the dramatic deterioration of the situation in Iraq, including reports of summary executions and extrajudicial killings. Reports ....

  • Egypt chairs ITU meeting in Geneva

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:09:34 GMT - Switzerland - Egypt - SN:108 - ID:776554

    GENEVA, June 13 (MENA) – Egypt's Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Atef Helmy presided over a high profile ministerial meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. The meeting comes within the ....

  • MB rally dispersed in Qalubiya

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:04:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:107 - ID:776560

    BANHA, June 13 (MENA) – Qalubiya security forces managed Friday to disperse a rally staged by members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group in the province. Young people and women who participated in the rally, chanting anti-police and army ....

  • Pakistan seeks power sharing with Taliban in Afghanistan’s next government

    Date: 2014-06-13 19:02:03 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:106 - ID:776561

    ISLAMABAD, June 13 (MENA) - The Afghan intelligence – national directorate of security (NDS) chief, Rahmatullah Nabil has said that the Pakistan intelligence agencies are looking o to share power with Taliban in the next government of Afghanistan, ....

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