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  • Chinese premier lauds close ties with Egypt

    Chinese premier lauds close ties with Egypt

    Date: 2016-05-31 07:45:20 GMT - China - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:5012985

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday lauded the close relations between Egypt and China, stressing that support, respect and mutual trust between the two countries have been witnessed since they started their diplomatic relations 60 years ago. In ....

  • Head of Press Syndicate, 2 board members to stand trial Saturday

    Head of Press Syndicate, 2 board members to stand trial Saturday

    Date: 2016-05-31 06:55:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:5012805

    The head of the Syndicate of Journalists and two other board members will stand trial on charges of sheltering a journalist and a blogger who are wanted by the police inside the union in downtown Cairo, according to a decision by the Public ....

  • Badie, 35 MBs sentenced to life over Ismailia violence following June 30 rev.

    Badie, 35 MBs sentenced to life over Ismailia violence following June 30 rev.

    Date: 2016-05-30 11:32:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:5008198

    Islamilia Criminal Court on Monday sentenced Muslim Brotherhood guide Mohammad Badie and 35 other MB members to life in prison over committing violent acts in the northeastern governorate of Ismailia in the wake of June 30 revolution. They are ....

  • Israeli government unanimously approves Lieberman as defense minister

    Israeli government unanimously approves Lieberman as defense minister

    Date: 2016-05-30 10:28:49 GMT - palestine - International - SN:9 - ID:5007562

    The latest version of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition was unanimously approved by the cabinet Monday after weathering its first storm, Netanyahu's Likud party said as quoted by Ha'aretz newspaper. The expanded ....

  • Israel storms western Khan Yunis

    Israel storms western Khan Yunis

    Date: 2016-05-30 09:28:55 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:5006974

    Israeli forces stormed western Khan Yunis Monday in southern Gaza Strip. Local sources said five Israeli military bulldozers stormed into the city amidst heavy flying of reconnaissance plans at low altitude. ....

  • Chief Syria negotiator: My resignation does not mean opposition's withdrawal from Geneva talks

    Chief Syria negotiator: My resignation does not mean opposition's withdrawal from Geneva talks

    Date: 2016-05-30 08:29:36 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:5006401

    The Syrian opposition's chief negotiator in UN-brokered peace talks, Mohamed Alloush said he asked the main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to accept his resignation, adding my resignation does not mean the opposition's withdrawal from ....

  • Vatican pope rules out retiring like his predecessor

    Vatican pope rules out retiring like his predecessor

    Date: 2016-05-30 07:26:25 GMT - Vatican - International - SN:6 - ID:5005961

    Pope Francis says he has no intention of quitting the papacy — a possibility opened up by his predecessor Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, The Washington Post reported. The pope, responding to a question from a young person at a Vatican event, said ....

  • ERTU bans hosting Shobair, Tayyeb on TV

    ERTU bans hosting Shobair, Tayyeb on TV

    Date: 2016-05-30 07:24:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:5005945

    Head of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) Safaa Hegazi on Sunday issued a decision stopping dealing with sports commentators and former footballers Ahmed Shobair and Ahmed el Tayeb on the Egyptian radio and television channels. Also, ....

  • Sisi inaugurates

    Sisi inaugurates "Asmarat" housing project

    Date: 2016-05-30 07:14:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:5005881

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi inaugurated Monday the first two phases of "Asmarat" social housing project in Muqqattam district of Cairo. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail and a number of ministers, as well as state figures, attended the inauguration ....

  • Mauritanian president will not run for another presidential term

    Mauritanian president will not run for another presidential term

    Date: 2016-05-30 07:14:09 GMT - Mauritania - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:5005877

    Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz said he will not run for another presidential term, noting that opposition was raising the issue without any occasion. An interviewed broadcast by the Spanish radio late Sunday, the Mauritanian ....

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