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  • Egyptian boat with 16 on board seized off Libyan coasts

    Egyptian boat with 16 on board seized off Libyan coasts

    Date: 2015-06-09 15:48:31 GMT - Libya - Egypt - SN:46 - ID:2763889

    Libyan coast guards seized an Egyptian fishing boat with 16 fishermen on board for entering Libyan territorial waters without a permission, said spokesman for Libyan Navy forces Ayoub Qassim. The vessel is now docked in Misrata harbor and the ....

  • 100,000 illegal migrants crossed Mediterranean to southern Europe

    100,000 illegal migrants crossed Mediterranean to southern Europe

    Date: 2015-06-09 15:46:04 GMT - Italy - International - SN:45 - ID:2763865

    The number of illegal migrants who crossed the Mediterranean to southern Europe exceeded 100,000 migrants since the start of the year until May. As many as, 103,000 people of Arab, African and Asian countries transited the Mediterranean including ....

  • Prosecutor General releases 122 defendants to mark Ramadan

    Prosecutor General releases 122 defendants to mark Ramadan

    Date: 2015-06-09 15:43:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:2763841

    Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered on Tuesday releasing 122 people held pending investigations on violence charges. The release decision came on the occasion of the advent of the Holy Fasting Month of Ramadan. ....

  • Hadi fires finance minister

    Hadi fires finance minister

    Date: 2015-06-09 15:42:02 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:2763813

    Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi fired on Tuesday Finance Minister Mohamed Mansour. No more details were reported. ....

  • Measures of trying 15 defendants adjourned

    Measures of trying 15 defendants adjourned

    Date: 2015-06-09 15:40:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:42 - ID:2763805

    The Cairo Criminal Court decided during a session on Tuesday delaying the measures of trying 15 persons convicted earlier in absentia and received jail terms, to the July 26 session. They are charged with carrying out acts of violence outside the ....

  • Al Nour party: Egypt restored its pivotal role in 1st year of Sisi term

    Al Nour party: Egypt restored its pivotal role in 1st year of Sisi term

    Date: 2015-06-09 15:39:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:41 - ID:2763773

    Deputy Chairman of Al Nour Party for Foreign Relations Amr al-Mekki said Egypt managed to restore its regional and international role during the first year of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's term in office. At a meeting with party leaders on ....

  • Justice min. meets IOM, NCCHT delegation

    Justice min. meets IOM, NCCHT delegation

    Date: 2015-06-09 14:47:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:2763421

    Justice Minister Ahmed el Zend met on Tuesday with a delegation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Sudan's National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking (NCCHT). During the meeting, Zend praised ties between Egypt and ....

  • Interior minister inspects Sharm security measures

    Interior minister inspects Sharm security measures

    Date: 2015-06-09 14:46:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:2763417

    Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar inspected on Tuesday measures aimed at securing the activities of the COMESA-EAC-SADC conference due to be held in Sharm El Sheikh city on June 10-11. The minister visited the troops assigned with the ....

  • 83.13% of dredging at New Suez Canal finalized

    83.13% of dredging at New Suez Canal finalized

    Date: 2015-06-09 14:09:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:2762453

    Up to 214.465 million cubic meters of water-saturated sand have been dredged so far as part of the Suez Canal Development Project, said Head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish. This represents 83.13 percent of a total 258 million cubic ....

  • Saudi-led Arab coalition targets Houthi positions in Sanaa

    Saudi-led Arab coalition targets Houthi positions in Sanaa

    Date: 2015-06-09 14:08:03 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:2763009

    The Saudi-led military coalition destroyed on Tuesday a house of a Houthi leader in Sanaa. The shelling demolished also several homes owned by Houthi leaders, who are loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Other Houthi-controlled ....

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