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  • 2,287 encroachements removed from River Nile banks

    2,287 encroachements removed from River Nile banks

    Date: 2015-03-24 18:31:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:69 - ID:2235713

    Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced Tuesday that 2,287 encroachments were removed from the banks of the River Nile of a total of 50,399 violations. This comes of a part of a national campaign to rescue the Nile launched by Prime ....

  • Arab leaders' participation in Arab summit unprecedented, says Egypt's delegate

    Arab leaders' participation in Arab summit unprecedented, says Egypt's delegate

    Date: 2015-03-24 18:29:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:68 - ID:2235697

    Egypt's Permanent Delegate to the Arab League (AL) Tareq Adel said on Tuesday that the Arab leaders' participation in the 26th session of the Arab Summit is unprecedented. In statements to MENA, Adel added that Speaker of the Libyan Parliament ....

  • Iran says no snap inspections of nuclear sites

    Iran says no snap inspections of nuclear sites

    Date: 2015-03-24 18:27:06 GMT - Iran - International - SN:67 - ID:2235689

    An Iranian official on Tuesday rebuked the chief of the UN atomic agency for demanding snap inspections of Iran's nuclear sites, the ABC News cited Iran's state TV as saying. Iran's nuclear spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said the request hindered ....

  • Sisi to address Ethiopian parl't Wednesday

    Sisi to address Ethiopian parl't Wednesday

    Date: 2015-03-24 18:23:05 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:66 - ID:2235657

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will deliver a speech before the Ethiopian parliament on Wednesday. President Sisi will meet on Wednesday at his residence in the capital Addis Ababa with representatives of Ethiopia's Supreme Council of Islamic ....

  • Houthis seize Almakha port, 75Kms away from Bab-el-Mandeb strait

    Houthis seize Almakha port, 75Kms away from Bab-el-Mandeb strait

    Date: 2015-03-24 18:21:08 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:65 - ID:2235653

    Local sources in Ta'izz said Houthis backed by forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh seized the port city of Almakha, 75 Kms away from Bab-el-Mandab and 260 Kms away from Aden, where President Abd Rabou Mansour Hadi is staying after ....

  • Tourism ministry to sponsor India on Nile banks festival in presence of Amitabh Bachchan

    Tourism ministry to sponsor India on Nile banks festival in presence of Amitabh Bachchan

    Date: 2015-03-24 18:05:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:63 - ID:2235589

    Egypt's Tourism Ministry sponsors the "India on the Nile banks" festival, that will be organized in Cairo from March 30 to April 17, in presence of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan said he is looking forward visiting Egypt ....

  • Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia ministers to meet next week to pick advisory office

    Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia ministers to meet next week to pick advisory office

    Date: 2015-03-24 17:45:49 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:2234385

    Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Hossam Moghazy said that he will meet with his Sudanese and Ethiopian counterparts in Khartoum next week to determine the consultant office that will prepare water and environmental studies of the Ethiopian ....

  • Iraqi forces restore police station from terrorists

    Iraqi forces restore police station from terrorists

    Date: 2015-03-24 17:40:48 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:2233405

    Iraqi forces managed to retake Al Andalos police station in al Bosada area in Anbar province and raised the Iraqi flag on it, during a security operation. A security source said bomb-disposal experts managed to defuse many explosive charges ....

  • EU expresses concern over deteriorating situation in Yemen

    EU expresses concern over deteriorating situation in Yemen

    Date: 2015-03-24 17:35:39 GMT - Belgium - International - SN:54 - ID:2235153

    European Union security and foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini voiced concern Tuesday over the deterioration of the security situation in Yemen. Mogherini called for resuming talks to find a way out of the current crisis. Once hailed by ....

  • Israel denies 'utterly false' claims it spied on U.S.

    Israel denies 'utterly false' claims it spied on U.S.

    Date: 2015-03-24 17:32:32 GMT - Israel - International - SN:61 - ID:2235401

    Israel on Tuesday vehemently denied claims that it had spied on the U.S. during the Iranian negotiations, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. Official in the Prime Minister’s Office called the allegations "utterly false." "The ....

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