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  • Nasr floats Egypt's vision to enhance world economic performance, support developing countries

    Nasr floats Egypt's vision to enhance world economic performance, support developing countries

    Date: 2016-10-05 09:09:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:5714237

    Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr said the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty Four (G-24) ministerial meeting, held on the fringe of WB annual meeting, will discuss a set of issues pertaining to various development challenges facing ....

  • Efforts still going on to free kidnapped Tunisian journalists in Libya - FM

    Efforts still going on to free kidnapped Tunisian journalists in Libya - FM

    Date: 2016-10-05 08:55:25 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:5714177

    Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui asserted that efforts are still going on to free Tunisian journalists Sufian Al Shawarbi and Nadeer Al Qatari who were kidnapped two years ago. In statements, the top diplomat said the government will ....

  • Attack on Yemen-bound civilian ship clear violation of int'l charters - UAE

    Attack on Yemen-bound civilian ship clear violation of int'l charters - UAE

    Date: 2016-10-05 08:34:39 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:5714001

    The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has stressed that the civilian ship which was targeted by the Houthi and Saleh militias off the coast of Mocha, Yemen, was carrying assistance, wounded Yemenis and passengers, WAM ....

  • UNSC condemns Houthi attack on UAE ship

    UNSC condemns Houthi attack on UAE ship

    Date: 2016-10-05 07:42:30 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:1 - ID:5713557

    The UN Security Council has strongly condemned the Houthi militia's attack on a UAE vessel off the coast of Yemen and called for such attacks to “cease immediately.” The members of the Security Council take threats to shipping around Bab ....

  • Sisi lays wreaths at Memorial of Uknown Soldier, tombs of Sadat, Nasser

    Sisi lays wreaths at Memorial of Uknown Soldier, tombs of Sadat, Nasser

    Date: 2016-10-04 07:56:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:5706685

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Tuesday laid wreaths at the Memorial of the Unkown Soldier in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City on the occasion of celebrations marking the 43rd anniversary of October war victory. Sisi was welcomed by Defense ....

  • MB leader in charge of armed groups killed in fire exchange with police

    MB leader in charge of armed groups killed in fire exchange with police

    Date: 2016-10-04 07:13:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5706433

    The man in charge of the Muslim Brotherhood group’s armed bodies was killed in a fire exchange with the police during his arrest in Cairo’s Basateen district, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry’s national security sector had collected ....

  • Egypt's Mufti says Daesh should not be called

    Egypt's Mufti says Daesh should not be called "Islamic State"

    Date: 2016-10-04 07:09:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5706421

    Egypt’s Mufti Shawki Allam on Monday rejected referring to the Daesh terrorist group as "the Islamic State group," stressing that terrorist acts should not be attributed to Islam. "Daesh is not a state, but they are terrorists who displaced ....

  • Khartoum: Libya pledged to resolve problem of 1,200 stranded Sudanese at Tobruk

    Khartoum: Libya pledged to resolve problem of 1,200 stranded Sudanese at Tobruk

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:50:35 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:5700965

    The Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Monday said it has received assurances from the Libyan government to resolve the problem of as many as 1,200 Sudanese who are stranded at Massaed crossing in Libya's Tobruk. Sudan's "Al-Rai Al-Am" newspaper quoted ....

  • Arab League condemns Houthi attack on aid ship

    Arab League condemns Houthi attack on aid ship

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:42:09 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:5700921

    The Secretary General of the Arab League condemns a Houthi attack that targeted an Emirati ship carrying aid Saturday in the Bab al-Mandab strait, a spokesman said Sunday. In a statement, Spokesman for the AL chief Mahmoud Afifi said such terror ....

  • EgyptAir says no employees investigated so far over Manhattan bag

    EgyptAir says no employees investigated so far over Manhattan bag

    Date: 2016-10-03 08:15:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5700789

    EgyptAir said it has not received any comments from the US authorities over reports that two EgyptAir in-flight security employees opened a bag on a Manhattan street that was later reported to contain a bomb. All EgyptAir employees, especially ....

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