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Iraqi president receives credentials of new Omani ambassador
Date: 2015-02-22 12:12:03 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:2018685
Iraqi President Fuad Masum received on Monday credentials of new Omani ambassador Mohamed el Farsi. In a press release, the Iraqi presidency said Masum hailed the relations between the two countries and called on boosting bilateral relations in ....
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Netanyahu: 'Astonishing' that talks continue with Iran despite it hiding info from IAEA
Date: 2015-02-22 11:49:49 GMT - Israel - International - SN:33 - ID:2018469
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the international community on Sunday for continuing its talks with Iran without being troubled by that country's support for global terrorism. At Sunday's cabinet meeting just a week before he ....
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Nile Basin minister plant saplings in Khartoum school
Date: 2015-02-22 11:46:01 GMT - Sudan - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:2018369
Nile Basin water resources ministers planted several saplings, each representing a Nile country, at a school in Khartoum on Sunday as a symbol of the future of the young generation. Egyptian Water Resources Minister Hossam Moghazi said the young ....
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U.S. weighs slowing Afghan withdrawal: Carter
Date: 2015-02-22 11:44:42 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:2016169
The United States is considering slowing a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan to ensure that "progress sticks" after more than a decade of war, new Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, VOA news reported. Under the current plan, the ....
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FM meets Sudanese presidential aide
Date: 2015-02-22 11:42:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:2018337
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met on Sunday with Sudanese Presidential aide Abdel Rahman Sadek Mahdi for talks on boosting bilateral cooperation. The two sides underlined the importance of holding the Egyptian-Sudanese higher committee, ....
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Agriculture minister meets with SEBA delegation
Date: 2015-02-22 11:42:09 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:30 - ID:2018309
Agriculture Minister Adel el Beltagy has met with a delegation from the Saudi-Egyptian Businessmen Association (SEBA) to discuss operational procedures for the cultivation of one million feddans, which were announced by President Abdel Fattah El ....
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Pope Tawadros II receives cable of condolences
Date: 2015-02-22 11:41:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:2018293
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the St. Mark Diocese Sunday received a cable of condolences from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna, over the killing of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya last week by the terrorist Daesh ....
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Wide-scale security campaign launched nationwide
Date: 2015-02-22 11:38:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:2018273
A wide scale security campaign has been launched nationwide to arrest criminals and outlaws and restore stability and security in the country. Security forces arrested on Sunday a five-member terror cell affiliated to the terrorist Muslim ....
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OIC condemns terrorist attack on public officials in Mogadishu
Date: 2015-02-22 11:37:24 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:2018253
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani, has condemned the twin bomb attacks on February 20 on the central hotel in Mogadishu, which killed 25 innocent people and injured a score of others, according to a ....
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Peshmerga troops kill 50 Daesh militants northwest Baghdad
Date: 2015-02-22 11:36:06 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:2017249
The Kurdish Peshmerga troops on Sunday confirmed the killing of 50 Daesh militants in clashes in northwestern Iraq. A reliable Peshmerga source said clashes continued for an hour and half in the villages of Tel Shaer, Sultan Abdullah and Tel Al ....