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  • Angelina Jolie about Iraq trip, Syrian refugees:

    Angelina Jolie about Iraq trip, Syrian refugees: "I Was Speechless"

    Date: 2015-01-28 13:14:49 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:1843725

    Angelina Jolie has called on the international community to help refugees in Syria and Iraq. The Hollywood super star visited a refugee camp near Dohuk, Iraq on Sunday, and wrote about her experiences in an op-ed for The New York Times, in which ....

  • FM underlines necessity of maintaining balanced interests between Egypt, Ethiopia

    FM underlines necessity of maintaining balanced interests between Egypt, Ethiopia

    Date: 2015-01-28 13:13:12 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:1843693

    Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Wednesday underlined the necessity that relations between Egypt and Ethiopia should be based on mutual respect and maintaining balance of interests. Shoukry added in press statements to MENA while ....

  • Cabinet approves recommendations on settling investment disputes

    Cabinet approves recommendations on settling investment disputes

    Date: 2015-01-28 13:12:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:1843677

    The Cabinet under Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab approved at a meeting on Wednesday recommendations and resolutions that were issued by the ministerial group on settling 22 investment disputes. The recommendations covered several topics including ....

  • Egypt's absence from AU meeting on Libya gives clear

    Egypt's absence from AU meeting on Libya gives clear "message"

    Date: 2015-01-28 11:41:45 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:1842721

    Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Egypt's absence from the African Union International Liasion Group on Libya, that was held earlier in the day, was a reaction to AU Commission non-abidance by the ordinary procedures applied in the ....

  • Cairo International Book Fair kicks off

    Cairo International Book Fair kicks off

    Date: 2015-01-28 11:41:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:1842713

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab opened on Wednesday the 46th session of Cairo International Book Fair, that will run till February 12. The fair, to take place on Nasr City Fairgrounds, chose Imam Muhammed Abduh, famous Islamic Scholar, as the man ....

  • Sisi chairs Egyptian delegation to 24th AU Summit

    Sisi chairs Egyptian delegation to 24th AU Summit

    Date: 2015-01-28 11:40:31 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:1842709

    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will chair Egypt's delegation to the 24th African Union Summit, due to kick off here on Friday. It will be the second time for President Sisi to lead the Egyptian delegation to African summits as he took ....

  • Sisi to arrive in Addis Ababa tomorrow for AU summit

    Sisi to arrive in Addis Ababa tomorrow for AU summit

    Date: 2015-01-28 11:39:53 GMT - Ethiopia - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:1842705

    Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will arrive in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday, on his first visit to the African country since assuming his post. Sisi will take part in the two-day African Union (AU) summit to start Friday under the ....

  • Russian FM to meet with Syrian negotiators in Moscow

    Russian FM to meet with Syrian negotiators in Moscow

    Date: 2015-01-28 09:53:58 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:1841513

    Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will have a meeting with representatives of the Syrian opposition and the government, who are in Moscow for consultations on settlement of the conflict in Syria, TASS news agency. The program or purposes of ....

  • Egypt condemns terrorist attack on Tripoli hotel

    Egypt condemns terrorist attack on Tripoli hotel

    Date: 2015-01-28 09:53:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:1841509

    Foreign Ministry Spokesman Badr Abdel Aati expressed Egypt's denunciation of the terrorist attack on Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli which left 12 people killed and five others injured. In statements here on Wednesday, the spokesman expressed Egypt's ....

  • 77 NGOs to follow up parliamentary polls - minister

    77 NGOs to follow up parliamentary polls - minister

    Date: 2015-01-28 09:52:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:1841501

    The Social Solidarity Ministry granted 77 civil society organizations certificates after they met all conditions needed to follow up the parliamentary polls to take place in March, a ministry source said Wednesday. The certificates will be ....

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