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Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa
Date: 2015-12-21 11:58:00 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:3969777
A number of extremist Israeli settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque Monday morning amid tight security measures. The settlers attempted to perform Talmudic rituals but were stopped by guards of the mosque, Palestinian media sources said. Israeli ....
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Problem of workers of Five Star Flour Mills solved, says minister
Date: 2015-12-21 10:41:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:3969125
Manpower Minister Gamal Sorour said Monday that efforts to settle a conflict between the administration of the Five Star Flour Mills in Suez City and 750 workers were successful. An agreement has been reached to grant all workers the value of a ....
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Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini banned from football for eight years by Fifa
Date: 2015-12-21 10:07:11 GMT - France - Sport - SN:8 - ID:3968813
Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini, have been banned from football for eight years, ending the career of the former and definitively derailing the vaulting ambitions of the latter, ABC news ....
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Army chief greets president on Mawlid anniversary
Date: 2015-12-21 10:06:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:3968809
Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi sent a cable of greetings to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on the occasion of al Mawlid al Nabawi (Prophet Muhammed's birthday anniversary), which falls Wednesday. The ....
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Sports minister meets Danish PM
Date: 2015-12-21 07:41:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:3967761
Youths and Sports Minister Khaled Abdel Aziz met with Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen at the final of the World Women's Handball Championship held in the Danish city of Herning. The Egyptian minister had left for Denmark on Saturday to ....
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Egypt seeking to save 5bn cubic meters of water – min.
Date: 2015-12-21 07:40:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:3967745
The Water Resources and Irrigation Ministry is keen to benefit from all scientific and practical experiments to counter water challenges in the country and save five billion cubic meters of water under the growing demand, Minister Hossam Moghazi ....
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Rescuers search for 91 people still missing
Date: 2015-12-21 07:39:14 GMT - China - International - SN:4 - ID:3967733
Hundreds of rescue workers are looking for survivors after a landslide hit 33 buildings in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the BBC reported. Seven people were pulled from the rubble with minor injuries but 91 people are still ....
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US conducts drone strike in eastern Afghanistan
Date: 2015-12-21 07:25:10 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:3 - ID:3967685
A US drone attacked a target in eastern Afghanistan at the weekend, euronews quoted a US military spokesman in Kabul as saying Monday. “US forces conducted a strike in Bati Kot District, Nangarhar Province, December 19 against individuals ....
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Kurdish forces arrest 9 Daesh militants in northern Iraq
Date: 2015-12-21 07:23:00 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:3967673
Kurdish forces arrested nine Daesh militants and seized an arms cache in Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Acting upon a tip-off, a Kurdish force barged into a village in northwestern Kirkuk late on Sunday, the spokesman for Kurdish Security Directorate ....
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Carter announces grandson's death at Sunday sermon
Date: 2015-12-21 07:16:04 GMT - USA - International - SN:1 - ID:3967649
Former US president Jimmy Carter's grandson has died, the former president said Sunday. Carter, 91, made the announcement during his regular Sunday school lecture in Plains, Georgia, although he apologized for being late — the first time ever — ....