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  • National unity urged to restore Mosul from militants' control

    Date: 2014-06-12 08:23:37 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:773838

    BAGHDAD, June 12 (MENA) - The national meeting called for the National Alliance head Ibrahim Jaafari underlined the importance of closing ranks to restore Mosul that was seized by militants of the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant over the past ....

  • Egyptian flag shall be raised on governmental and private bodies: minister

    Date: 2014-06-12 08:21:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:773811

    CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) - Minister of Local and Administrative Development Adel Labib assigned the provinces' governors to follow up raising the Egyptian flag on all governmental and non governmental buildings. The ministry said in a statement that ....

  • Official orders bomb detectors to be upgraded at Suez ports

    Date: 2014-06-12 08:12:56 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:29 - ID:773753

    SUEZ, June 12 (MENA) - Chairman of Red Sea Ports Authority Hassan Fallah said on Thursday that he ordered officials in charge of ports of Suez, South Sinai and Red Sea to regularly maintain and enhance the efficiency of bomb detectors there. "Two ....

  • Tourist arrival rates declined 21.9% in April - CAPMAS

    Date: 2014-06-12 08:08:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:773808

    CAIRO, June 13 (MENA) - Tourist arrival rates registered a 21.9% drop in April to reach 860,000, down from 1.1 million tourists in April 2013, according to a monthly report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics ....

  • Awqaf minister decries sexual harassment as mean act

    Date: 2014-06-12 08:02:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:773805

    CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) - Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa decried the sexual harassment phenomenon in Egypt, saying it is a mean and shameful act that is totally odd to Egyptian values. "Confronting such a phenomenon is a religious, national ....

  • Pak court allows Pervez Musharraf to leave country

    Date: 2014-06-12 07:59:39 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:26 - ID:773818

    ISLAMABAD, June 12 (MENA) - A court in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Thursday ordered the government to remove former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's name from a no-fly list in 15 days' time, the BBC reported quoting his lawyer. "The ....

  • Giza governorate to focus on issues touching citizen lives

    Date: 2014-06-12 07:47:07 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:25 - ID:773713

    GIZA, June 12 (MENA) - Giza Governor Ali Abdel Rahman said on Thursday that his province will focus on issues touching the lives of citizens during the coming period. "This includes focusing on urban development, building more housing units, paving ....

  • Israel would not tolerate missile attacks: defense minister

    Date: 2014-06-12 07:45:17 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:773756

    RAMALLAH, June 12 (MENA) – Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Thursday that Israel would not tolerate any missile attack, a day after a missile targeted southern Israel. "We won't allow a daily stream of rockets or attempts to harm ....

  • US: Palestinian Authority not liable for Wednesday’s Gaza rocket strike on Israel

    Date: 2014-06-12 07:31:30 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:773755

    GAZA, June 12 (MENA) - The United States condemned Wednesday morning’s Gaza rocket attack against Israel but said it doesn't at this time hold the Palestinian Authority liable for it, even though Hamas has sponsored its new government, The Jerusalem ....

  • Recycling factories now under construction in technical schools - minister

    Date: 2014-06-12 07:24:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:773736

    CAIRO, June 12 (MENA) - Egypt's education minister spoke with MENA on the tireless efforts exerted by the ministry to develop the educational mechanism in Egypt, including setting up recycling plants inside each technical school. "Efforts are now ....

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