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Iraqi forces kill suicide bomber before attacking military outpost
Date: 2017-10-06 08:47:55 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:7026042
Anbar Operations Commander Mahmoud al Falahi said on Friday that a suicide bomber affiliated to Daesh terrorist group was killed before attacking a military outpost in western Ramada city. Falahi noted that the suicide bomber was wearing an ....
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Putin accepts King Salman’s invitation to visit Saudi Arabia
Date: 2017-10-06 08:46:25 GMT - Russia - International - SN:3 - ID:7026036
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Thursday invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to pay a visit to Saudi Arabia. Putin, who visited Riyadh in February 2007, has accepted the invitation, Russia Today reported. The Russian ....
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Trump suggests meeting with military leaders may be 'calm before the storm'
Date: 2017-10-06 08:43:47 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:7026032
US President Donald Trump cryptically suggested Thursday that a meeting with senior military leaders was "the calm before the storm." "Maybe it's the calm before the storm," the president said after the White House called reporters out for a ....
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Shoukry meets with French counterpart in Paris
Date: 2017-10-06 08:42:21 GMT - France - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:7026029
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry had talks on Friday with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris. The two sides discussed bilateral relations along with the recent developments in the Middle East, especially the situation in ....
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Lavrov: Moscow, Riyadh agree that fighting terrorism should be priority in Syria
Date: 2017-10-05 17:31:35 GMT - Russia - International - SN:14 - ID:7025587
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud agreed during a meeting that fighting terrorism should be priority in Syria, Sputnik news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying . “In ....
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Putin: Saudi king’s visit to Russia a landmark event
Date: 2017-10-05 17:31:30 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:7025579
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said during his meeting with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud that the monarch's visit to Russia is a landmark event, Sputnik News reported . "This is the first visit of the King of Saudi Arabia to ....
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MP lauds Pope Francis's notes about Holy Family journey in Egypt
Date: 2017-10-05 16:30:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:7025567
Head of the Parliament's Human Rights Committee Alaa Abed hailed Pope Francis's move to embrace the Holy Family journey in Egypt as a big historic event as well as promotion of Egypt's tourism . Pope Francis of the Vatican regarded the journey's ....
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Egypt's Mufti: "International Fatwa" conference launches multilingual e-platform
Date: 2017-10-05 15:59:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:7025485
Egypt's Mufti Dr Shawqi Allam said Thursday that the international fatwa conference, which will be held in Cairo on October 17, will launch five initiatives to support the role of fatwa in establishing and stabilizing societies . In a statement ....
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British writer Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature
Date: 2017-10-05 15:59:33 GMT - Sweden - Culture - SN:10 - ID:7025459
The Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, the awarding Swedish Academy said as quoted by the BBC . Ishiguro, 62, who is known for novels such as A Pale View of Hills (1982), The Remains ....
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Iraqi construction min. urges Egyptian companies to help reconstruct Iraq
Date: 2017-10-05 15:59:27 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:7025444
Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities Ann Nafie Osei called Thursday on Egyptian companies to participate in reconstructing Iraq. In statements at the conclusion of the 82nd session of the executive office of the Arab ....