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  • Giza governor mourns death of prosecutor general

    Giza governor mourns death of prosecutor general

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:22:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:2894665

    Giza Governor Khaled Zakaria mourned on Tuesday the death of Egypt's Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat, who breathed his last after a terrorist attack on his motorcade yesterday. "Barakat was a leading judicial figure, who spent his life ....

  • Interior minister inquires after bodyguards injured in attack on Barakat motorcade

    Interior minister inquires after bodyguards injured in attack on Barakat motorcade

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:21:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:2894653

    Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar visited Police Hospital in Nasr City Tuesday to inquire after the bodyguards who were injured in the terrorist attack which targeted the motorcade of late prosecutor general Hesham Barakat Monday. Abdel ....

  • Ukraine will need seven years plus referendum to join NATO — Poroshenko

    Ukraine will need seven years plus referendum to join NATO — Poroshenko

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:19:45 GMT - Russia - International - SN:32 - ID:2894633

    Ukraine’s accession to NATO is not the issue of the day yet, because it will take six to seven years to meet all the mandatory requirements, its president, Petro Poroshenko, said in an interview published by the Italian daily Corriere della ....

  • Dozens killed as Indonesian military plane crashes on houses in Sumatra

    Dozens killed as Indonesian military plane crashes on houses in Sumatra

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:16:21 GMT - Indonesia - International - SN:21 - ID:2893821

    An Indonesian military transport plane has crashed into a residential area in Sumatra, killing dozens of people according to reports. There was carnage as houses and a hotel were set on fire. Many of the casualties were on the ground, Euronews ....

  • 23 persons of regime forces, Syrian opposition killed, injured in Homs

    23 persons of regime forces, Syrian opposition killed, injured in Homs

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:13:06 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:2894553

    About 23 persons belonging to the Syrian regime forces and opposition were killed and injured in clashes in Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The clashes erupted between the regime forces, Jabhat al Nusra ....

  • Security measures beefed up in Alex

    Security measures beefed up in Alex

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:11:34 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:2893725

    Security measures were stepped up Tuesday outside the vital and important institutions in the governorate in anticipation of any violence acts or illegal protests that could be staged on the second anniversary of the June 30th revolution. The ....

  • Nicky Morgan says homophobia may be sign of extremism

    Nicky Morgan says homophobia may be sign of extremism

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:09:20 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:30 - ID:2894537

    Homophobic views may be a sign that a pupil is at risk of becoming an extremist, Nicky Morgan has said. The education secretary was speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide to identifying pupils in danger of ....

  • Blast in shakes diplomatic quarter in Kabul

    Blast in shakes diplomatic quarter in Kabul

    Date: 2015-06-30 11:04:57 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:29 - ID:2894453

    A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops serving with NATO on the main road running between Kabul's airport and the US embassy, Euronews reported. The road was closed off and the force of the blast rattled windows in the capital's ....

  • Egypt's Foreign Ministry balks at politicized Amnesty International report

    Egypt's Foreign Ministry balks at politicized Amnesty International report

    Date: 2015-06-30 10:57:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:2893469

    The Foreign Ministry scolded Tuesday's Amnesty International report which alleges that thousands of youths have been arbitrarily detained in Egypt over the past two years in connection with protests. The report under the title Generation Jail: ....

  • Sisi says Egypt adamant to amend laws to achieve justice

    Sisi says Egypt adamant to amend laws to achieve justice

    Date: 2015-06-30 10:45:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:2894285

    Egypt is determined to amend laws with the aim of achieving justice as soon as possible, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said on Tuesday. While attending the funeral ceremony of Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, who breathed his last ....

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