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  • 40th round of Arab youth ministers council starts at AL headquarters

    40th round of Arab youth ministers council starts at AL headquarters

    Date: 2017-04-10 10:25:17 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6761913

    The 40th round of the council of Arab ministers of youth and sports started Monday under Libya at the premises of Arab League. The ministers started the meeting by observing a minute of silence in mourning of the martyrs of the two churches that ....

  • 8 injured in Alex's church attack hospitalized at university hospitals: Dean

    8 injured in Alex's church attack hospitalized at university hospitals: Dean

    Date: 2017-04-10 10:23:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6761908

    Eight cases, who were injured during Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral Church deadly explosion Sunday, are still receiving treatment at university hospitals, said Alexandria Faculty of Medicine Dean Dr. Ahmed Othman on Monday. Out of the ....

  • Strikes destroy centuries-old Ghouta mosque

    Strikes destroy centuries-old Ghouta mosque

    Date: 2017-04-08 07:39:05 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:6758018

    Airstrikes destroyed one of Damascus East Ghouta's oldest mosques, leaving dozens injured and two children dead. The 900-year-old big mosque in the Ghouta city was targeted by six rockets, causing massive damage to its building, Sky News quoted ....

  • Sweden strengthens border controls after truck attack: PM

    Sweden strengthens border controls after truck attack: PM

    Date: 2017-04-08 07:01:56 GMT - Sweden - International - SN:4 - ID:6757982

    Sweden said on Saturday it had strengthened border controls after an unidentified attacker plowed a truck through a crowd into a department store in central Stockholm, killing four people and injuring 15, according to Deccan Chronicle. "I have ....

  • Russia regards any use of chemical weapons

    Russia regards any use of chemical weapons "inadmissible"

    Date: 2017-04-08 06:58:22 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:6757976

    Russia considers absolutely inadmissible any use of chemical weapons, those guilty of such crimes must be held responsible, Sputnik news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as having said. "Russia consistently maintains a clear stance that ....

  • Man arrested on strongest level of suspicion for terror crime after Sweden attack

    Man arrested on strongest level of suspicion for terror crime after Sweden attack

    Date: 2017-04-08 06:55:08 GMT - Sweden - International - SN:2 - ID:6757971

    Sweden early Saturday arrested a man for a "terrorist crime" hours after a beer truck plowed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm, killing four and injuring 15. The man was arrested "on suspicion of a terrorist crime ....

  • Al Azhar condemns truck-ramming attack in Sweden

    Al Azhar condemns truck-ramming attack in Sweden

    Date: 2017-04-08 06:36:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6757949

    Al Azhar has condemned a truck-ramming attack in the Swedish capital of Stockholm that killed and wounded a number of people. In a statement on Friday, Al Azhar stressed its long-standing stance rejecting all criminal and terrorist acts that ....

  • Merkel: UN failure to condemn chemical attack is

    Merkel: UN failure to condemn chemical attack is "scandal"

    Date: 2017-04-06 18:12:13 GMT - Germany - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:6756459

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that the failure of the UN Security Council to condemn the recent chemical attack in Syria was a "scandal". At a news conference broadcast by Sky News Arabia, Merkel said "it was a barbaric attack ....

  • Assistant FM stresses importance of strategic ties between Egypt, EU

    Assistant FM stresses importance of strategic ties between Egypt, EU

    Date: 2017-04-06 15:21:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:6756208

    Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Ihab Nasr stressed the importance of the strategic relations between Egypt and the European Union (EU), affirming the need to enhance it to serve the best interests of the two sides. During a ....

  • Germany investigating 20 Turks on suspicion of spying

    Germany investigating 20 Turks on suspicion of spying

    Date: 2017-04-06 14:49:14 GMT - Germany - International - SN:2 - ID:6756132

    German authorities are investigating 20 Turkish citizens on suspicion of conducting espionage in Germany, a newspaper reported . Die Welt said it received information in an official government response to a question about the issue filed by Sevim ....

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