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Parliament secretary: No fire in parliament building, short circuit prompted fire sirens to ring
Date: 2016-01-11 11:11:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:4090933
Secretary of the House of Representatives Counselor Ahmed Saad Eldin on Monday denied reports that a fire broke out in the parliament building, noting that such reports are groundless. In statements to MENA, Saad Eldin said a limited short ....
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Relatives of A321 crash victims prepare lawsuit against aircraft owner
Date: 2016-01-11 09:41:42 GMT - Russia - International - SN:8 - ID:4090137
Some 100 relatives of the A321 passenger jet crash victims have prepared a class-action lawsuit to the New York Court against the US leasing company International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), from which the Russian Kogalymavia airline rented ....
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Interior Minister honors some police troops
Date: 2016-01-11 09:29:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:4090021
Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar Monday honored troops that foiled a terrorist attack on a hotel in the Red Sea city of Hurghada on Friday. The troops were able to arrest the attackers. The minister also honored Col. Yasser Hassan Asr of ....
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Iraq anti-terror troops free district in eastern Ramadi
Date: 2016-01-11 08:17:08 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:4089441
Iraqi anti-terror troops have liberated the district of Bo'elwan in eastern Ramadi city in Anbar province after shelling Daesh positions, according to a security source. The joint operations command media pointed out that the military operations ....
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Russia repeatedly warned NATO against interference in Libya, Iraq
Date: 2016-01-11 08:15:03 GMT - Russia - International - SN:5 - ID:4089405
Russia’s attempts to convince NATO against military involvement in Libya and Iraq had nothing to do with the alleged anti-Western rhetoric and were voiced only as a warning from possible mistakes, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an ....
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N. Korea expands loudspeaker broadcasts to counter South
Date: 2016-01-11 08:13:59 GMT - south korea - International - SN:4 - ID:4089397
SEOUL, Jan 11 (MENA) - North Korea has expanded its own loudspeaker broadcasts along the inter-Korean border as a counteraction to South Korea's retaliatory broadcasts critical of the communist nation, Yonhap news agency reported quoting sources as ....
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Obama to shut Guantanamo before he leaves office, says White House chief of staff
Date: 2016-01-11 08:12:33 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:4089389
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough has vowed that President Obama will close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility before his presidency ends in 11 months. “He feels an obligation to his successor to close that, and that’s why we’re going ....
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Fire inside Azhar University cafeteria controlled
Date: 2016-01-11 08:11:01 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:4089373
Civil defense troops were able to put out a fire that erupted inside a cafeteria at Al Azhar University early Monday. The fire was caused by a short circuit and resulted in the explosion of a gas cylinder inside the cafeteria. No word of ....
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Sherif named deputy speaker of Egyptian parliament
Date: 2016-01-11 08:08:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:4089361
MP el Sayyed Mahmoud el Sherif has been elected deputy speaker of parliament for five years. Aly Abdel Aal, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, said that a runoff vote will be held between MPs Alaa Eddin Abdel Men'em and Seliman Wahdan ....
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2 Iraqi killed, 10 injured in Baghdad; 10 members of al Hashd al Shaabi killed in Tikrit
Date: 2016-01-10 13:26:33 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:4085565
Two Iraqi civilians were killed and seven others injured in two separate blasts in Baghdad while 10 of the People's Mobilization (al Hashd al Shaabi) members were killed in an air shelling in Tikrit. A security source said that a bomb went off ....
