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Tillerson cancels Mexico trip to focus on resolving Qatar crisis
Date: 2017-06-17 08:50:58 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:6858105
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson canceled a trip to Mexico next week to focus on resolving the crisis in Qatar, Sky News reported Saturday. Tillerson had been expected to go to Cancun for less than 24 hours Monday for a meeting of the ....
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US Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collides with merchant boat
Date: 2017-06-17 08:50:07 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:6858103
The US Navy has requested assistance from the Japanese coastguard after a US destroyer collided with a merchant vessel, Sky News reported. The extent of injuries to US personnel "is being determined", the US Navy said in a statement. The USS ....
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Sadat metro station reopened
Date: 2017-06-17 08:48:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:6858101
Sadat metro station was reopened at the start of operating hours on Saturday after a one-day closure over security concerns. In a statement, Spokesman for the Egyptian Company for Metro Management and Operation Ahmed Abdel Hadi said that trains ....
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Cuba denounces Trump's policy rollback
Date: 2017-06-17 08:28:36 GMT - Cuba - International - SN:2 - ID:6858077
Cuba's government has denounced US President Donald Trump's decision to roll back on policy changes towards the island nation, the BBC reported Saturday. However, it said it will still co-operate with its larger neighbor. Speaking earlier in ....
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PM to attend signing of deal on upgrading Egyptian ports
Date: 2017-06-17 07:31:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6858019
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail will witness on Saturday the signing of a deal between the Ministry of Transport, the Egyptian National Railways authority and General Electric company to upgrade Egyptian ports. The deal will cover a set of ....
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FM meets with editors-in-chief of national papers, MENA
Date: 2017-06-15 08:48:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:6855654
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry held an Iftar (fast-breaking) banquet on Wednesday in honor of the editors-in-chief of national newspapers and the Middle East News Agency (MENA) as well as a number of thinkers and writers. The banquet was also ....
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Sisi says int'l community shall curb state funders of terrorism
Date: 2017-06-15 08:45:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:6855650
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi asserted that the international community shall exert more efforts to hold state funders of terrorism in check to root out terrorism. In an interview with ARD, a public broadcaster in Germany, President Sisi said ....
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Libyan announces suspending oil exports to companies dealing with Qatar
Date: 2017-06-15 08:44:12 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:6855649
Interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al Thinni announced suspending oil exportation to companies dealing with Qatar over its support for terrorism. Al Thinni said he sent a message the chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli ....
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Bahraini amb. deeply concerned about Qatar's links with Manchester bombing
Date: 2017-06-15 08:43:20 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6855648
Bahraini Ambassador in London Fawaz bin Mohamed al Khalifa said he is concerned about Qatar links with terrorist groups in Libya and the suicide bomber responsible for the Manchester attack that left 22 persons dead. In statements on Thursday, ....
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Pentagon: US agrees to sell F-15 jets to Qatar
Date: 2017-06-15 08:33:41 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:6855633
The United States agreed to sell F-15 fighter jets to Qatar, the US-funded Radio Sawa reported Thursday. The sale "will give Qatar a state of the art capability and increase security cooperation and interoperability between the United States and ....
