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Vatican denies Italian media report that pope has brain tumor
Date: 2015-10-21 09:10:11 GMT - Vatican - International - SN:7 - ID:3573941
The Vatican on Wednesday denied an Italian media report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor, the BBC reported. "The pope is carrying out his activity with his usual high level of intensity. Spreading unfounded news is gravely irresponsible ....
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Park: S. Korea, Japan should move toward new future
Date: 2015-10-21 08:44:49 GMT - south korea - International - SN:6 - ID:3573745
South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Wednesday that South Korea and Japan should move toward a new future in the latest call for better ties between the two neighbors, Yonhap reported. South Korea and Japan have long been at odds over their ....
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Putin meets Assad for talks in Moscow
Date: 2015-10-21 08:39:24 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:3573689
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad have held talks in Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said as quoted by Sputnik news agency. “Yesterday evening Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in Moscow for a working ....
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35 members of Al Wafd party to go to runoff- el Badawi
Date: 2015-10-21 07:46:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:3573357
Thirty-five members of Al Wafd Party are to compete in a runoff in the first phase of parliamentary elections, Chairman of Al Wafd Party Sayed el Badawi said Tuesday night. Badawi said the party had 27 members to contest in the runoff, along with ....
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Palestinian leader meets German lawmakers
Date: 2015-10-21 07:20:37 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:3573133
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Volker Bouffier, speaker of the upper house of the German parliament, and his accompanied delegation. They discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian territories within the context of ....
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Indonesia's deputy FM in Cairo for cooperation
Date: 2015-10-21 06:57:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:3572949
Indonesia's Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Koleib arrived Tuesday night in Cairo from Beirut on a three-day visit to discuss ways to boost Egyptian-Tunisian relations. Koleib will meet with senior Egyptian officials to probe a number of issues of ....
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FM probes Syrian, Libyan developments with German counterpart
Date: 2015-10-21 06:50:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:3572909
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed the latest developments in Syria and Libya at a meeting in the Jordanian capital Amman with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. A statement by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid on ....
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Libyan parliament rejects UN proposal to form unity government
Date: 2015-10-20 07:11:26 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3566525
The Libyan parliament rejected on Monday a United Nations proposal to form a unity government, lawmaker Abdel Motaleb Thabet said Monday night. The parliament has decided to hold on to the fourth draft of the Libyan Political Accord, he added in ....
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69 injured on second day of elections: Health Ministry
Date: 2015-10-20 06:43:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:3566393
Sixty-nine were reported injured on the second day of parliamentary elections in 14 governorates, the spokesman for Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry clarified that the cases varied between high blood pressure, temperature, fainting, ....
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Cabinet's operation room receives 15 complaints on 2nd day of vote
Date: 2015-10-20 06:03:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:3566217
The central operation unit affiliated to the cabinet received 15 complaints on the second and last day of the first phase of the parliamentary elections. On the first day, the unit said it monitored 31 incidents such as two voters were trying to ....