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  • 55 vessels cross Suez Canal

    55 vessels cross Suez Canal

    Date: 2016-03-15 11:28:31 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:5 - ID:4514865

    Fifty-five ships transited the Suez Canal on Tuesday, with a total cargo of 2.4 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 31 vessels carrying 1.3 million tons, while the north-bound convoy included 24 ships carrying 1.1 million tons, ....

  • Daesh commander Omar Shishani dead, says Pentagon

    Daesh commander Omar Shishani dead, says Pentagon

    Date: 2016-03-15 07:21:42 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:4512821

    A senior commander of Daesh militant group is dead, the Pentagon has confirmed. Defense officials said Omar Shishani died from injuries sustained in a recent US air strike in north-eastern Syria. Earlier reports had suggested Shishani, a ....

  • Palestine obtains PCA membership

    Palestine obtains PCA membership

    Date: 2016-03-15 07:18:54 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:4512805

    Palestine has been approved as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Palestinian foreign ministry was quoted by the state news agency WAFA as saying on Monday. Following contacts with main players, majority of the court's members ....

  • Arab coalition warplanes shell houthis positions in Ma'reb, Jawaf

    Arab coalition warplanes shell houthis positions in Ma'reb, Jawaf

    Date: 2016-03-15 07:04:20 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:4512713

    Arab coalition warplanes on Tuesday shelled positions of militias of houthis and former Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Saleh in Mareb and Jawaf governorates. In Ma'reb, the Arab warjets shelled Serwah city in western Ma'reb on the road leading to ....

  • Transport Ministry: Sokhna harbor reopened, Sharm El Sheikh harbor still closed

    Transport Ministry: Sokhna harbor reopened, Sharm El Sheikh harbor still closed

    Date: 2016-03-15 07:01:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4512685

    Transport Ministry on Tuesday announced that Al Ain Al Sokhna Airport in Suez was reopened after improvement in weather conditions and stability of wind speed. In a statement released on Tuesday, the ministry said Sharm El Sheikh harbor is still ....

  • Kremlin warns Syria talks sides against making

    Kremlin warns Syria talks sides against making "unfounded ultimatums"

    Date: 2016-03-14 13:22:04 GMT - Russia - International - SN:10 - ID:4508825

    Russia believes it is important that no side in the Syria peace talks resuming in Geneva on Monday should derail negotiations by putting forward unfounded ultimatums, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Without doubt it is important right now ....

  • 41 vessels transit Suez Canal

    41 vessels transit Suez Canal

    Date: 2016-03-14 11:31:39 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:9 - ID:4507341

    Forty-one ships, with a total cargo of 2.2 million tons, transited the Suez Canal on Monday. The north-bound convoy included 22 vessels carrying 1.4 million tons, while the south-bound convoy included 19 ships carrying 800,000 tons, according to ....

  • WB invites supply min. to explain bread, subsidized goods in Washington in May

    WB invites supply min. to explain bread, subsidized goods in Washington in May

    Date: 2016-03-14 10:42:03 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:8 - ID:4506781

    The World Bank invited Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Khaled Hanafi to explain the successful Egyptian experiment in the systems of bread and subsidized goods during the annual meeting of the bank in Washington in May. This came during ....

  • Israeli forces kill in 3 Palestinians in WB

    Israeli forces kill in 3 Palestinians in WB

    Date: 2016-03-14 09:16:12 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:4505917

    Three Palestinians were killed in east Hebron on Monday when Israeli forces opened fired towardS them. The occupation forces claimed they shot the three were shot over a stabbing operation in the West Bank. ....

  • Egypt's central bank holds exceptional dlrs 200 million auction

    Egypt's central bank holds exceptional dlrs 200 million auction

    Date: 2016-03-14 08:01:11 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:6 - ID:4505397

    The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) said it will sell 200 million dollars in an exceptional auction on Monday at a rate of 8.85 Egyptian pounds to the dollar, banking sources told MENA. The CBE offers three tenders to sell dollars to banks weekly, on ....

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