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Int'l cooperation minister leaves for New York
Date: 2016-02-22 07:23:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:4363658
International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr left here on Monday for New York to take part in a ministerial meeting held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of establishing UN Development Program (UNDP). The minister's participation comes in her ....
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Interior minister meets dead driver's father
Date: 2016-02-22 07:22:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:4363654
Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar met Sunday evening with the father of the driver who was killed by a policeman last week. The minister, who was returning from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh, expressed his regret over the incident, ....
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Kerry meets with Abbas, urges end to violence
Date: 2016-02-22 07:21:48 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:4363650
US Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman to discuss the unabating violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem. "The Secretary continued to urge for calm and a decrease in violence, incitement and ....
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Aden int'l airport closed for security reasons
Date: 2016-02-22 07:20:51 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:4363642
An official source at Aden international airport said Monday that all flights will be suspended as of today after an official decision to close the airport for security reasons until further notice. The decision was issued by the Arab alliance ....
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Indonesian president receives Tayyeb
Date: 2016-02-22 07:18:20 GMT - Indonesia - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4363614
Indonesian President Joko Widodo received Monday visiting Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb. The meeting took up current Islamic issues and Azhar role at the local and Islamic level along with cooperation ties between both countries in the ....
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Young Palestinian teen detained near Hebron after alleged attempted attack
Date: 2016-02-21 11:37:53 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:4358781
Israeli forces detained on Sunday a 14-year-old young Palestinian teenager near Hebron, the occupied West Bank after he allegedly tried to carry out a stabbing attack, said the Israeli occupation forces. Israeli forces “thwarted a stabbing ....
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46 killed after two bombings in Homs in Syria
Date: 2016-02-21 10:49:10 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:4358305
The death toll from two bomb blasts in the Syrian city of Homs today has reached 46, including at least 28 civilians, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Observatory said the attacks, which hit the city's central Zahra ....
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International Cooperation min.: African Bank will only technically support Egypt in establishing administrative capital
Date: 2016-02-21 09:39:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:4357537
International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr denied on Sunday claims saying that Egypt will receive 1.5 billion dollars as a loan from the African Development Bank to establish the administrative capital. In exclusive statements to MENA on the ....
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2nd day of Africa Business Forum kicks off
Date: 2016-02-21 09:33:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:4357449
The second day of the African Business Forum kicked off here on Sunday. The forum is organized by Egypt in cooperation with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) and under the auspices of the African Union. President ....
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Sisi's word sets pivots of integrated African economy mechanism - official
Date: 2016-02-21 09:31:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:4357433
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's word at the Africa 2016 forum laid down important pivots for an integrated mechanism to upgrade the African economy, said the head of the Egyptian General Authority for Free Zones and Investments (GAFI) on ....