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  • PM stresses cabinet's determination to overcome corruption

    PM stresses cabinet's determination to overcome corruption

    Date: 2015-12-24 15:02:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:3989269

    Prime Minister Sherif Ismail stressed that his government is determined to overcome corruption no matter where. Ismail lauded the role played by the supervisory apparatuses in combating corruption before it takes place, said cabinet's spokesman ....

  • Sisi meets Shoukry, Moghazi on coming meeting of Ethiopian dam

    Sisi meets Shoukry, Moghazi on coming meeting of Ethiopian dam

    Date: 2015-12-24 14:43:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:3989165

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met on Thursday with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam Moghazi. The meeting is part of preparations for the six-way meeting on the Ethiopian Reconnaissance Dam ....

  • Cairo-Alexandria train movement back to normal

    Cairo-Alexandria train movement back to normal

    Date: 2015-12-24 09:24:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:3986597

    The Cairo-Alexandria train movement returned to normal after a two-hour hiatus, the Transport Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. A locomotive fell on the railways in Beheira at 6:00 a.m., while trying to pull a train, it said. It was ....

  • Syria ready to take part in Geneva peace talks, says FM

    Syria ready to take part in Geneva peace talks, says FM

    Date: 2015-12-24 09:23:21 GMT - China - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3986589

    Syria is ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help the country form a national unity government, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al Moualem said Thursday. Moualem, who spoke to reporters in English, said he ....

  • 21 firefighter, rescue teams contribute to containing Jazan fire

    21 firefighter, rescue teams contribute to containing Jazan fire

    Date: 2015-12-24 07:52:00 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:3985833

    Some 21 firefighter, rescue and ambulance teams worked on containing the fire that broke out early Thursday in Jazan hospital in southwestern the kingdom. Around 25 people were killed and 107 others wounded in the fire, according to Al Arabiya ....

  • Saudi Deputy CP receives telephone call from US FM

    Saudi Deputy CP receives telephone call from US FM

    Date: 2015-12-24 06:48:19 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:3985593

    Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, received a telephone call from US Secretary of State John Kerry, SPA reported on Thursday. During the call, they reviewed ....

  • 25 people killed, scores injured in Jazan fire hospital, civil defense says

    25 people killed, scores injured in Jazan fire hospital, civil defense says

    Date: 2015-12-24 06:39:29 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:3985569

    Around 25 people were killed and scores others wounded when a fire broke out in Jazan hospital in southwestern the kingdom, the Saudi Civil Defense said on Thursday. Rescue teams are trying to extinguish the fire. Reason behind the fire has ....

  • Kremlin says unfamiliar with report on alleged Russian

    Kremlin says unfamiliar with report on alleged Russian "war crimes" in Syria

    Date: 2015-12-23 13:27:35 GMT - Russia - International - SN:10 - ID:3983225

    The Kremlin has no information on the credibility of the report of the Amnesty International human rights organization that has described some Russian airstrikes in Syria as "war crimes," Tass news agency reported on Wednesday. "We have no ....

  • Thomas Cook reduces prices of Hurghada trips by half

    Thomas Cook reduces prices of Hurghada trips by half

    Date: 2015-12-23 11:01:52 GMT - United Kingdom - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:3982133

    Thomas Cook has reduced the prices of trips to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada. Tourists can save more than £1,000 on a family holiday to Hurghada. Thomas Cook has seven nights at the Sunrise Royal Makadi Resort & Aqua Park from £962 for a ....

  • 2 civilians killed, 10 wounded in 2 blasts in Baghdad

    2 civilians killed, 10 wounded in 2 blasts in Baghdad

    Date: 2015-12-23 09:56:06 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:3981633

    Two Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 others wounded in two blasts in Baghdad on Wednesday, a security source said. A bomb blew up near a factory in eastern Baghdad, killing two passers-by and wounding eight others. The other bomb exploded in ....

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