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  • Military Technical Academy hosts meeting  of renowned scientist Farouk el Baz

    Military Technical Academy hosts meeting of renowned scientist Farouk el Baz

    Date: 2015-05-05 11:04:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:2522117

    Renowned Egyptian scientist Farouk el Baz on Tuesday was received at the Egyptian Military Technical Academy where he held an open discussion with cadets and teachers of the academy. The illustrious scientist took up the history of the Egyptian ....

  • Gulf leaders flowing to Riyadh for GCC summit

    Gulf leaders flowing to Riyadh for GCC summit

    Date: 2015-05-05 10:48:17 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - International - SN:9 - ID:2521893

    Leaders of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states started on Tuesday arriving to attend the 15th GCC summit. Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and UAE's Deputy Premier Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashed Al Maktoum arrived Tuesday. ....

  • Two Azhar students wounded in blast during bomb-making

    Two Azhar students wounded in blast during bomb-making

    Date: 2015-05-05 10:06:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2521337

    Two Azhar University students were injured when a bomb they were manufacturing in a home in Nasr City detonated, police said Tuesday. Bomb squads rushed to the Zehour neighborhood after residents called the police. A third student involved in ....

  • Israeli Foreign Ministry issues travel warning to Nepal

    Israeli Foreign Ministry issues travel warning to Nepal

    Date: 2015-05-05 09:52:14 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:2521173

    The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a travel warning Tuesday to Nepal in light of the devastating earthquake that left thousands dead and many more injured. The aftermath of the natural disaster also destroyed numerous villages, communities and ....

  • Clinton refuses to testify twice on Benghazi attacks

    Clinton refuses to testify twice on Benghazi attacks

    Date: 2015-05-05 09:49:37 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:2521141

    Former secretary of US State Hillary Clinton agreed Monday to testify once, but not twice, before the special House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Clinton attorney David Kendall, in a ....

  • 27 Daesh militants killed in Anbar, Iraqi officials

    27 Daesh militants killed in Anbar, Iraqi officials

    Date: 2015-05-05 08:58:22 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:2520621

    Iraqi forces killed 27 militants of the Daesh terrorist group on Tuesday, officials said. Out of the 27, 23 were killed in Fallujah in Anbar province as pro-government militias repelled an attack by Daesh militants, the officials said. The ....

  • Death toll from Nepal quake hits 7,500

    Death toll from Nepal quake hits 7,500

    Date: 2015-05-05 08:54:25 GMT - Nepal - International - SN:4 - ID:2520605

    The death toll from the April 25 deadly earthquake in Nepal reached more than 7,500. Rescuers were digging through thousands of tons of earth Tuesday, the remains of a quake-triggered mudslide that wiped out an entire village along a popular ....

  • Sisi convenes with top EU official

    Sisi convenes with top EU official

    Date: 2015-05-05 07:29:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:2520021

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received here Tuesday European Union Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef said. Avramopoulos arrived in Cairo Monday on a two-day visit ....

  • Obama to tap Gen. Dunford as Joint Chiefs chairman

    Obama to tap Gen. Dunford as Joint Chiefs chairman

    Date: 2015-05-05 05:53:17 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:2519525

    US President Barack Obama is to name Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, a trusted military adviser with ties to his drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Dunford currently serves as the commandant of the Marine ....

  • Saudi Arabia's royal protocol chief replaced

    Saudi Arabia's royal protocol chief replaced

    Date: 2015-05-05 05:37:34 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:2519489

    Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdel Aziz issued a royal order on Monday relieving Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Altobaishi of his post as chief of the Royal Protocols. Khalid bin Saleh Alabbad was named as chief of the Royal Protocol at the rank of ....

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