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  • Egypt's irrigation minister heads for Juba

    Egypt's irrigation minister heads for Juba

    Date: 2015-02-23 10:27:09 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:2024453

    Egypt's Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam Moghazi left here Monday for Juba on a four-day visit to South Sudan. During the visit, Moghazi will inaugurate and visit a number of water and developmental projects in South ....

  • Egyptian communities abroad laud Sisi speech to nation

    Egyptian communities abroad laud Sisi speech to nation

    Date: 2015-02-23 09:56:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:2024145

    The Egyptian communities abroad lauded the addresss by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to the nation Sunday evening, Spokesman of the general union of Egyptian communities abroad Salah Youssef said. In the speech, Sisi presented his ....

  • Independent Union of Archaeological Workers calls for holding fair on fringe of economic conference

    Independent Union of Archaeological Workers calls for holding fair on fringe of economic conference

    Date: 2015-02-23 09:55:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:2024173

    The Independent Union of Archaeological Workers is calling for holding a temporary exhibition of Egyptian antiquities on the sidelines of an international economic summit due to take place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh next month. The ....

  • Orange buys-out Orascom’s participation and rights in Mobinil (ECMS)

    Orange buys-out Orascom’s participation and rights in Mobinil (ECMS)

    Date: 2015-02-23 09:47:27 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:18 - ID:2024073

    Orange and Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT) have agreed that Orange will purchase all the shares and voting rights held directly or indirectly by OTMT in the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (ECMS). ECMS is a company listed on the ....

  • Girl suicide bomber kills 5 in northeastern Nigeria market

    Girl suicide bomber kills 5 in northeastern Nigeria market

    Date: 2015-02-23 09:41:02 GMT - Nigeria - International - SN:17 - ID:2024005

    A witness and hospital records say a girl suicide bomber blew herself up, killing four others and seriously wounding 46 at a busy market in Potiskum in northeastern Nigeria, the ABC News reported. Survivor Anazumi Saleh said the bomber appeared ....

  • Big bids at EGX to lure investors -- Official

    Big bids at EGX to lure investors -- Official

    Date: 2015-02-23 09:38:04 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:16 - ID:2023945

    After years of lame offers, the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) is finally getting big bids that will sure lure more local, Arab and foreign investments, the CEO of EFG Hermes has said. The Arabian Cement Company (ACC) made the first big bid mid 2014, ....

  • Kidnapped Indian aid worker freed in Herat

    Kidnapped Indian aid worker freed in Herat

    Date: 2015-02-23 08:49:48 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:15 - ID:2023513

    An Indian aid worker who was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen eight months before in western Herat Province has been freed, Khaama Press reported Monday. Yesterday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi before this news popped up tweeted “Will ....

  • Iran supports efforts to end Syria conflict: Larijani

    Iran supports efforts to end Syria conflict: Larijani

    Date: 2015-02-23 08:23:08 GMT - Iran - International - SN:14 - ID:2023341

    Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s support for every effort to help find a political solution to the prolonged conflict in Syria, Press TV reported. In a Sunday meeting with Syrian Ambassador to ....

  • Netanyahu slams Herzog for saying Iran not existential threat

    Netanyahu slams Herzog for saying Iran not existential threat

    Date: 2015-02-23 08:22:07 GMT - Israel - International - SN:13 - ID:2023333

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog of undermining his efforts to prevent Iran’s nuclearization by declining to call a potentially nuclear Iran an existential threat to the State of Israel. “I ....

  • Iraqi intelligence body denies 'alleged military coup attempt'

    Iraqi intelligence body denies 'alleged military coup attempt'

    Date: 2015-02-23 08:20:50 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:2023325

    Iraq's intelligence agency has denied reports claiming that "a military coup attempt" had been discovered. "These reports are categorically unfounded," a spokesman for the agency said on Monday. On Sunday, Defense Minister Khaled el Obaidi ....

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