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  • Housing min pays surprise visit to 6 October water station project

    Housing min pays surprise visit to 6 October water station project

    Date: 2015-02-19 09:02:17 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:1998245

    Housing Minister Moustafa Madbouli paid a surprise visit to 6 October water station project that will serve all expansions of the new city and central Giza. During his visit, Madbouli asserted the importance of finalizing the project before the ....

  • Arab interior ministers council condemns targeting Egyptians in Libya

    Arab interior ministers council condemns targeting Egyptians in Libya

    Date: 2015-02-19 08:07:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:1997745

    Secretary General of the Arab Interior Ministers Council Mohamed ben Ali Koman sent on Thursday a cable of condolences to Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim over the victims of the terrorist attack on 21 Egyptians in Libya. He expressed ....

  • Pentagon screens 1,200 Syrian rebel fighters to potentially train for fight against Daesh

    Pentagon screens 1,200 Syrian rebel fighters to potentially train for fight against Daesh

    Date: 2015-02-19 08:03:42 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:1997705

    The United States has found around 1,200 opposition fighters in Syria that could participate in US military led training programs to fight against ISIS, the Pentagon said Wednesday as quoted by Radio Sawa. The fighters will undergo vetting for ....

  • Ukrainian president calls for UN peacekeepers

    Ukrainian president calls for UN peacekeepers

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:52:48 GMT - Ukraine - International - SN:7 - ID:1997593

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for UN peacekeepers to be deployed to eastern Ukraine to enforce a ceasefire, according to the BBC. At an emergency security meeting, he said such a force would help guarantee security "in a ....

  • Obama meets with his new defense secretary

    Obama meets with his new defense secretary

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:41:34 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:1997493

    US President Barack Obama met with his newly-appointed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter for talks over violent extremism, the current situation in Ukraine and the conditions of the US army. Obama told reporters that the meeting tackled fighting ....

  • Alexandria port authority to offer 2 investment projects during March conf. - chief

    Alexandria port authority to offer 2 investment projects during March conf. - chief

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:36:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:1997461

    The Alexandria Port Authority will offer two investment projects worth 1.5 billion pounds during Egypt's economic conference, slated for March, Chairman of the authority Abdel Qader Darwish said on Wednesday. He added that the projects will ....

  • Kerry: Daesh terrorist group targets Middle East

    Kerry: Daesh terrorist group targets Middle East

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:20:22 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:1997401

    US State Secretary John Kerry said on Thursday that Daesh terrorist group is targeting the Middle East. Addressing a ministerial meeting that was held on the sidelines of a summit that was hosted by the White House on terrorism, Kerry added that ....

  • Obama: Daesh and al-Qaeda are a threat to the world

    Obama: Daesh and al-Qaeda are a threat to the world

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:12:25 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:1997357

    US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that the US is "not at war with Islam - we are at war with the people who have perverted Islam". He was speaking to representatives from 60 nations attending a three-day event on extremism. The world ....

  • Pope Tawadros receives UN representative in Cairo

    Pope Tawadros receives UN representative in Cairo

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:10:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:1997333

    Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St Mark's Diocese received on Wednesday the UN representative in Cairo Anita Nirody at the Orthodox church in Abbasiya. Nirody offered condolences to Pope Tawadros over the killing of 21 Egyptian ....

  • Petroleum min. leaves Jordan after one-day visit

    Petroleum min. leaves Jordan after one-day visit

    Date: 2015-02-19 07:08:35 GMT - Jordan - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:1997317

    Minister of Petroleum & Mineral Resources Sherif Ismail left Amman Wednesday after a one-day visit, where he met with Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour and his counterpart Mohammad Hamid. The meeting tackled boosting cooperation between the ....

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