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Pope Tawadros II receives Hungarian deputy PM
Date: 2017-02-25 07:36:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:6583637
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese on Friday received Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén, who is visiting Cairo. The meeting was attended by a number of bishops and the Hungarian ambassador in Cairo. ....
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Documents indicate Germany spied on foreign journalists
Date: 2017-02-25 07:35:40 GMT - Germany - International - SN:5 - ID:6583629
Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, apparently spied on large numbers of foreign journalists overseas over the course of several years, including employees of the BBC, Reuters and the New York Times, DER SPIEGEL reported on Friday. ....
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Petition calls for Barack Obama to run as French president
Date: 2017-02-25 07:34:10 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:6583617
If the upcoming French election wasn't tense enough, a petition is calling to add yet another candidate into the mix: former US President Barack Obama, the Time Magazine reported on Friday. The Obama 17 campaign, which was launched earlier this ....
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Dozens of Houthis killed in Bayda clashes -- Sources
Date: 2017-02-25 07:33:00 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:6583601
Scores of Houthi militants were killed and injured in fierce clashes that erupted in different parts of al Bayda Governorate, said Yemeni sources on Saturday. Meanwhile, many civilians were killed and 19 others injured in heavy bombardment by ....
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Russia to veto UNSC resolution imposing sanctions on Syria — envoy
Date: 2017-02-25 07:32:00 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6583597
Russia will veto the UN Security Council’s draft resolution imposing sanctions on Syria over alleged chemical attacks Damascus is blamed for, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Represented to the UN Vladimir Safronkov was quoted by Tass as having said ....
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King Salman's visit reaffirms ties - Najib
Date: 2017-02-25 07:30:47 GMT - Malaysia - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:6583585
Saudi Arabia's King Salman Abdulaziz's visit to Malaysia on Sunday reaffirms a partnership and brotherhood built on mutual trust and respect, Bernama news agency said quoting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as saying. He said this ....
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Sisi sends message to Somalia's new president
Date: 2017-02-24 09:08:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:6579541
Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs Hamdi Sanad Loza on Thursday handed over a message from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to Somalia's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that Loza ....
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UN envoy doubts 'breakthrough' at Syria peace talks
Date: 2017-02-24 09:07:23 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:6579537
United Nations mediator for the talks on the war in Syria Staffan de Mistura played down expectations for major progress before planned negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva, Deutsche Welle reported Thursday. He asserted that the ....
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Egypt's bourse loses EGP 15.1bln in week
Date: 2017-02-24 09:06:02 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:5 - ID:6579525
The Egyptian Exchange closed this week with losses amounting to EGP 15.1 billion. The market capital hit EGP 600.1 billion compared to EGP 615.2 billion in the previous week. During the course of the week, the benchmark index EGX 30 went down ....
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Pentagon plan to defeat Daesh to look beyond Iraq, Syria
Date: 2017-02-24 09:04:19 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:6579509
A Pentagon-led plan to defeat the so-called Islamic State group, due in draft form by Monday, will look beyond Iraq and Syria to include the threat from jihadists around the world fueling the conflict, the Daily Mail quoted America's top general as ....
