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  • Sisi-Obama meeting 'opportunity' to clarify facts, discuss future ties 2 last New York

    Date: 2014-09-25 12:27:51 GMT - USA - World - SN:64 - ID:1011833

    At the African level, the spokesman said that Sisi held three important meetings with Ugandan, South Sudanese and Mauritanian presidents. Egypt attaches great importance to the African causes, the spokesman quoted Sisi as saying during his ....

  • Egyptian expat in Britian lauds Sisi's speech to UNGA

    Date: 2014-09-25 10:02:52 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:46 - ID:1009221

    LONDON, Sept 25 (MENA) – A number of Egyptian prominent figures in Britain hailed on Thursday President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's speech on Wednesday to the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Head of the Egyptian community in London ....

  • Chinese FM calls for UN's leading role in global war on terrorism

    Date: 2014-09-25 09:21:54 GMT - USA - World - SN:39 - ID:1009617

    NEW YORK, Sept 25 (MENA) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here Wednesday that the United Nations and its Security Council should play a leading role in the global war on terrorism, media reports said. While speaking at a UN Security ....

  • 9 arrested in London for connection to terrorist organization

    Date: 2014-09-25 08:10:46 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:36 - ID:1009209

    LONDON, Sept 25 (MENA) - Nine people were arrested Thursday morning over suspicions of being connected to a banned organization and inciting terrorism, Scotland Yard announced. Police inspected 11 homes in east London, two in the west and ....

  • 13 missing after tourist boat capsizes

    Date: 2014-09-25 06:56:08 GMT - Paraguay - World - SN:28 - ID:1008737

    ASUNCION, Sept 25 (MENA) - At least three people were killed and 13 went missing after a tourist boat capsized in the Paraguay River during a storm at the town of Carmelo Peralta in northern Paraguay, authorities said Wednesday night. Aldo ....

  • 8 killed in suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, sources say

    Date: 2014-09-25 06:54:32 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:27 - ID:1008769

    ISLAMABAD, Sept 25 (MENA) - Missiles fired by what is thought to be a U.S. drone killed eight suspected militants and injured an unspecified number of other people in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan on Wednesday morning, the CNN quoted ....

  • Pentagon: New airstrikes target refineries used by ISIS in Syria

    Date: 2014-09-25 06:25:14 GMT - USA - World - SN:20 - ID:1008605

    WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (MENA) - U.S. and coalition warplanes pounded ISIS positions in eastern Syria on Wednesday, targeting what a Pentagon official described as mobile oil refineries being used by the so-called Islamic State terror group to help ....

  • Highlights of Sisi address to UNGA Session

    Date: 2014-09-25 05:03:39 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:11 - ID:1008417

    NEW YORK, Sept 25 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi participated in the inauguration of the general debate of the 69th UN General Assembly and delivered a speech on Wednesday morning. Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry and ....

  • UN Security Council approves foreign fighters resolution

    Date: 2014-09-25 00:45:14 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:3 - ID:1008293

    NEW YORK, Sept 24 (MENA) -The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution demanding countries toughen their laws to prevent the flow of foreign fighters to terror groups like the so-called Daesh, also known as ....

  • HRW criticizes UNSC resolution on Daesh foreign fighters

    Date: 2014-09-24 23:53:31 GMT - United Nations - World - SN:224 - ID:1008221

    NEW YORK, Sept 24 (MENA) - The Human Rights Watch criticized on Wednesday a UN Security Council resolution to combat foreign fighters who joined the militant Daesh group. "The adopted resolution risked repeating many of the mistakes of the ....

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