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Kerry calls for ending sexual violence
Date: 2014-06-13 12:42:25 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:55 - ID:775906
LONDON, June 13 (MENA) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday told an international summit on ending sexual violence in conflict that it was time for the world to banish the crime "to the history books where it belongs," CNN reported ....
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Minister orders removing encroachments in new cities
Date: 2014-06-13 12:41:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:775908
CAIRO, June 13 (MENA) – Housing Minister Mohamed Madbouly has ordered the heads of municipalities of newly established cities to launch a concerted campaign to remove street vendors and end encroachments there. "Law will be firmly applied to ....
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Agriculture minister urges solar energy usage
Date: 2014-06-13 12:38:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:775761
CAIRO, June 13 (MENA) – Minister of Agriculture Ayman Abu Hadid has underlined the importance of using solar energy as an alternative energy in agricultural projects and irrigation. During a meeting Friday with a committee on irrigation ....
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Ex-magazine chief editor Abdullah Kamal died at 49
Date: 2014-06-13 12:32:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:52 - ID:775973
CAIRO, June 13 (MENA) – Former chief editor of Rosa Al-Yousef Abdullah Kamal died on Friday at the age of 49. Kamal was announced dead at Cleopatra Hospital in Cairo neighborhood of Heliopolis after suffering a heart attack. Kamal, who was ....
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Qatar vowed to pay salaries of Gaza employees -- spokesman
Date: 2014-06-13 11:56:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:775841
RAMALLAH, June 13 (MENA) – Spokesman for the Palestinian unity government Ihab Bseiso said that Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Naser had promised Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Al-Hamdallah in a phone conversation that Qatar would ....
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2 people arrested in Minya over violence charges
Date: 2014-06-13 11:45:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:775845
MINYA, Egypt, June 13 (MENA) - Two people were arrested Friday over violence charges in Minya. One of them is charged with setting a checkpoint to fire, while the other is facing charges of storming and robbing a municipality ....
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Jordan in permanent contacts with Iraq to secure nationals
Date: 2014-06-13 11:31:49 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:775844
AMMAN, June 13 (MENA) - Jordan is in permanent contacts with Iraqi authorities to secure the arrival of Jordanian nationals living in Iraq to Amman, said Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Amin Mahmoud. The Jordanian government ....
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Japanese investors interested in Egyptian projects - envoy
Date: 2014-06-13 11:29:16 GMT - Japan - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:775759
TOKYO, June 13 (MENA) - Japanese institutions have expressed interest in major ambitious projects the Egyptian government intends to implement, said Egypt's Ambassador in Tokyo Hisham el-Zamety. Zamety was talking about Egypt's participation in ....
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Qaeda claims responsibility for attacking Tunisian minister's home
Date: 2014-06-13 11:23:32 GMT - Tunisia - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:775838
TUNIS, June 13 (MENA) – Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed Friday responsibility for a recent attack on the home of Tunisia's Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou. It is the first attack the group claims credit for in the country. The ....
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Minya on security alert ahead of MB protests
Date: 2014-06-13 11:21:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:46 - ID:775840
MINYA, Upper Egypt, June 13 (MENA) - Security measures have been beefed up around vital facilities here Friday ahead of planned protests by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group. Checkpoints and roadblocks were set up at the entrances and ....