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  • Train travels in wrong direction, injuring 20 in Japan

    Train travels in wrong direction, injuring 20 in Japan

    Date: 2019-06-01 23:23:19 GMT - Japan - International - SN:9 - ID:7965069

    An automated train traveled in the wrong direction on Saturday, causing about 20 people to be injured, a local fire department was quoted by Kyodo news agency as saying Three people appeared to have suffered serious but non-life-threatening ....

  • Number of people injured in Russia plant blast climbs to 79

    Number of people injured in Russia plant blast climbs to 79

    Date: 2019-06-01 23:22:32 GMT - Russia - International - SN:8 - ID:7965068

    Several blasts hit the Kristall explosives plant in Dzerzhinsk in the central Russian region of Nizhny Novgorod on Saturday, Tass news agency reported. Overall, 79 people have asked for medical help so far, the Russian Health Ministry ....

  • 8 killed, wounded in airstrikes in northwest Syria

    8 killed, wounded in airstrikes in northwest Syria

    Date: 2019-06-01 23:21:46 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7965067

    Three people were killed and five others were wounded on Saturday in airstrikes on Jisr al-Shughur in Idlib governorate, northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. The Russian raids reached the demilitarized zone along ....

  • Foreign Ministry urges citizens travelling to Tanzania not using plastic bags

    Foreign Ministry urges citizens travelling to Tanzania not using plastic bags

    Date: 2019-06-01 23:20:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7965066

    The Foreign Ministry urged Saturday citizens planning to travel to Tanzania not to use any kinds of plastic bags, and abide by the Tanzanian government directions in this regard. A plastic bag ban comes into force in Tanzania on Saturday, as ....

  • Salah scores as Liverpool beat Tottenham to win Champions League

    Salah scores as Liverpool beat Tottenham to win Champions League

    Date: 2019-06-01 21:27:59 GMT - Spain - Sport - SN:5 - ID:7965038

    Mohamed Salah's second-minute penalty and a late Divock Origi strike saw Liverpool claim the UEFA Champions League for a sixth time by beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 at Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano. Clinical finishing, coupled with an ....

  • Egypt chairs meeting of UN agencies' executive councils for first time

    Egypt chairs meeting of UN agencies' executive councils for first time

    Date: 2019-06-01 19:36:18 GMT - Italy - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:7964977

    Egyptian Ambassador to Italy, its permanent representative to the United Nations Agencies in Rome and the current president of the World Food Program (WFP) has made a visit to New York to chair the joint meeting of six UN agencies. The meeting ....

  • Pope Tawadros greets Muslims on imminent Eidul Fitr

    Pope Tawadros greets Muslims on imminent Eidul Fitr

    Date: 2019-06-01 19:27:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:7964970

    The exchange of greetings between Al Azhar and Egyptian churches on religious occasions testifies to the strong brotherly ties among all Egyptian people, Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb stressed Saturday. Tayyeb made his remark during a visit paid by ....

  • Egypt's Farag stays at World No.1 for 4th month in row

    Egypt's Farag stays at World No.1 for 4th month in row

    Date: 2019-06-01 19:22:49 GMT - Egypt - Sport - SN:2 - ID:7964965

    Egypt's World Champion Ali Farag stayed at World No.1 for a fourth month in a row followed by World No.2 Mohamed El-Shorbagy. Tarek Momen and Karim Abdel Gawad made it an all-Egyptian top four for a second successive month, according to the PSA ....

  • Senior official arrested in Beheira on bribery charges

    Senior official arrested in Beheira on bribery charges

    Date: 2019-06-01 19:21:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:7964962

    The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) on Saturday arrested the director of Beheira governor's technical office on bribery charges. The arrested official was found to have received about EGP 500,000 from businessmen and owners of contracting ....

  • US-led coalition admits killing at least 1,302 civilians in Syria, Iraq

    US-led coalition admits killing at least 1,302 civilians in Syria, Iraq

    Date: 2019-05-31 22:14:06 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:7963850

    US-led forces have killed at least 1,302 civilians while battling Daesh terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (JTF-OIR) said in its monthly casualty assessment on Friday, Sputnik News Agency reported. The ....

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