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  • 620 trucks allowed via Karam Abu Salem crossing

    620 trucks allowed via Karam Abu Salem crossing

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:28:18 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:2266269

    Israeli authorities allowed 620 trucks lauded with goods and construction materials to the Gaza Strip via Karam Abu Salem crossing. The Israeli authorities reopened Karam Abu Salem crossing Sunday to allow goods and aid supplies to the Gaza Strip ....

  • Israeli gunboats target fishermen in Gaza

    Israeli gunboats target fishermen in Gaza

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:27:19 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:2266261

    Israeli gunboats fired Sunday on fishermen boats off the Gaza Strip shores. No injuries were reported. ....

  • Singapore holds funeral procession for Lee Kuan Yew

    Singapore holds funeral procession for Lee Kuan Yew

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:26:21 GMT - Singapore - International - SN:10 - ID:2266249

    Singapore is bidding farewell to its founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who died on Monday aged 91, the BBC reported on Sunday. Despite torrential rain, thousands lined the streets to view the funeral procession carrying Lee's coffin from ....

  • "Operation Decisive Storm" resumes shelling of houthis sites, Saleh troops

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:24:05 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:2266237

    Planes of "Operation Decisive Storm" at dawn Sunday resumed shelling sites of houthis and troops loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Saleh for the fourth day running in the provinces of Sanaa and Saada. The shelling targeted the camps ....

  • MB defendant to be remanded in custody in Suez

    MB defendant to be remanded in custody in Suez

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:22:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:2266205

    Suez Public Prosecution on Sunday ordered a member of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to be remanded in custody for 15 days over his involved in setting on fire police vehicles and motorbikes of Suez Traffic Authority as well as igniting fire ....

  • Malaysia arrests 2 Iraqis from Daesh terror cell

    Malaysia arrests 2 Iraqis from Daesh terror cell

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:19:59 GMT - Malaysia - International - SN:7 - ID:2266189

    Police have foiled an attempt by a Daesh terror cell to attack the Saudi Arabia and Qatar embassies with the arrest of two Iraqi nationals, the Star reported on Sunday. Sources said the two men were detained by the Bukit Aman Special Branch ....

  • Kerry cancels plan to return to US to stay at Iran talks

    Kerry cancels plan to return to US to stay at Iran talks

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:17:25 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:2266173

    Amid signs of trouble in the Iran nuclear negotiations, US Secretary of State John Kerry cancelled plans Sunday to return to the United States for an event honoring his late Senate colleague Edward Kennedy in order to remain at the ongoing talks in ....

  • Air Canada plane leaves Halifax runway on 'abrupt' landing

    Air Canada plane leaves Halifax runway on 'abrupt' landing

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:13:54 GMT - Canada - International - SN:5 - ID:2266145

    An Air Canada plane made an "abrupt" landing and left the runway at the Halifax airport in bad weather, and officials said early Sunday that 25 people were taken to a hospital for observation and treatment of minor injuries, ABC News reported on ....

  • 5-Richter quake shakes areas in south of Iran

    5-Richter quake shakes areas in south of Iran

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:11:35 GMT - Iran - International - SN:4 - ID:2266133

    An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale jolted areas between two provinces of Kerman and Hormuzgan in the south of Iran, IRNA reported on Sunday. The tremor was felt in the towns of Menojan in Kerman and Hashtbandi in Hormuzgan. ....

  • Foreign Minister Yun says Japan faces test to leadership

    Foreign Minister Yun says Japan faces test to leadership

    Date: 2015-03-29 08:10:08 GMT - south korea - International - SN:3 - ID:2266125

    Japan will risk "severe damage" to its leadership if it misses important opportunities on the horizon this year, Yonhap quoted South Korea's top diplomat as saying Sunday. On a current affairs TV program, Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se spoke in ....

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