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  • UN urges countries to promote efforts to deal with influx of immigrants crisis

    UN urges countries to promote efforts to deal with influx of immigrants crisis

    Date: 2015-08-29 08:37:56 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:6 - ID:3244853

    UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to come together to provide comprehensive responses to migration issues, including tackling smugglers and resolving ongoing conflicts, among other root causes, according to the BBC. “I am horrified ....

  • Lebanese interior minister says will withdraw security forces if army does not take part in securing protests

    Lebanese interior minister says will withdraw security forces if army does not take part in securing protests

    Date: 2015-08-29 08:33:22 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:3244801

    Lebanese Interior Minister Nehad al Mashnouq said that he will withdraw security forces tasked with securing protests of the civil society, due today, if the Lebanese army does not take part in securing them. In press statements to An-Nahar ....

  • UN warns South Sudan rivals to honour ceasefire

    UN warns South Sudan rivals to honour ceasefire

    Date: 2015-08-29 08:23:21 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3244717

    The UN Security Council (UNSC) has warned the warring sides in South Sudan they face an arms embargo and other sanctions if they do not implement a peace deal due to come into force on Saturday, The BBC news reported. In a unanimous statement, ....

  • Mauritania arrests terrorist over supporting Daesh

    Mauritania arrests terrorist over supporting Daesh

    Date: 2015-08-29 08:18:40 GMT - Mauritania - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:3244681

    Mauritania arrested in the wee hours of Saturday a terrorist over supporting the Daesh group. Identified as Mohammad Salem al-Majlesy, he was previously sentenced to three years in jail over charges in connection with terrorism, but was released ....

  • Ceasefire talks between Syrian opposition Iran fail

    Ceasefire talks between Syrian opposition Iran fail

    Date: 2015-08-29 08:17:33 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:3244669

    The Syrian opposition has officially declared the failure of negotiations with Iran to reach a ceasefire in Zabadani city in Rif Dimashq and the towns of Foaa and Kafaria in Rif Idlib. Air force jets have targeted Zabadani city following the ....

  • Arab jets raid Jabl al Nahdain

    Arab jets raid Jabl al Nahdain

    Date: 2015-08-29 08:12:57 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:3244649

    Arab coalition jets have intensified raids on Jabl al Nahdain military site near the presidential palace in southern Sanaa. The jets shelled the site for the fourth time before dawn Saturday after a Ballistic missile was fired in the direction of ....

  • Awqaf min. asserts importance of cleanliness of community, Nile

    Awqaf min. asserts importance of cleanliness of community, Nile

    Date: 2015-08-28 11:12:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:3241109

    Awqaf Minister Mohamd Mokhtar underlined on Friday the importance of cleanliness of the community and the River Nile. In a released statement, Mokhtar said that the Islamic civilization and religion call for such a civilized attitude. Islam ....

  • Bourse loses EGP 6.4 billion in week

    Bourse loses EGP 6.4 billion in week

    Date: 2015-08-28 07:20:48 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:3 - ID:3239765

    The Egyptian Exchange closed this week with losses amounting to EGP 6.4 billion. The capital market decreased to EGP 437.6 billion against 444 billion pounds last week. During the course of the week, the benchmark index EGX 30 went down by ....

  • Health Ministry approves new hepatitis C drug

    Health Ministry approves new hepatitis C drug

    Date: 2015-08-28 07:19:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:3239761

    Egypt's Health Ministry on Thursday approved a new oral interferon-free hepatitis C drug, to be available at the national hepatitis treatment centers in the coming period. In a statement on Thursday, AbbVie, the drug's manufacturer, said that ....

  • Executive regulations of Industrial devel. authority under review: minister

    Executive regulations of Industrial devel. authority under review: minister

    Date: 2015-08-28 07:18:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:3239753

    Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour said on Thursday that the ministry reviews the executive regulations of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) to be passed later by the prime minister. During a meeting with a ....

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