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No Weapons Seen Crossing Russian-Ukrainian Border - OSCE
Date: 2014-08-19 16:17:37 GMT - Russia - International - SN:66 - ID:881663
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission working on the Russian-Ukrainian border has not seen any weapons crossing between the countries, an OSCE spokesman working on the Russian side of the border was ....
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Traffic official denies arrest of Islamic State militants on ring road
Date: 2014-08-19 15:45:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:65 - ID:881611
The Traffic department director denied on Tuesday media reports claiming that Islamic State militants were arrested on the Ring Road. "Those reports are false and baseless," Mostafa Darwish told MENA. Earlier, some news websites reported that ....
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Pakistan army strikes kill 48 suspected militants
Date: 2014-08-19 15:44:01 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:64 - ID:881610
Pakistan military says it has carried out fresh airstrikes near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 suspected terrorists and eliminating around a dozen of their hideouts, VOA reported. Army officials say Tuesday's action by fighter planes and ....
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Israel launches Gaza strikes following rocket firing
Date: 2014-08-19 15:40:10 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:57 - ID:881559
Israel's military said it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket firing, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire, the BBC reported. Three rockets were fired towards the towns of Beersheba and Netivot, ....
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Wafd Party, Sudan's National Umma Party leaders meet in Cairo
Date: 2014-08-19 15:36:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:63 - ID:881602
Head of the al-Wafd Party al-Sayyed al-Badawi met on Tuesday with Chairman of the Sudanese National Umma Party al-Sadiq al-Mahdi and his accompanying delegation. The meeting took up the current situation in Sudan and the Egyptian-Sudanese ....
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Funeral of ex-supply min. Gewili held in Behaira
Date: 2014-08-19 15:28:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:881588
A funeral for Ahmed Gewili, the former minister of supply, was held Tuesday in his birthplace in Nakla el-Enab village, Behaira governorate. Gewili died late Monday at the age of 77. The funeral was attended by a host of city hall officials, ....
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Sinai residents launch anti-terror campaign
Date: 2014-08-19 15:25:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:881583
North Sinai residents launched on Tuesday an anti-terror campaign dubbed "We Will Not Forget You". The campaign was launched following a terrorist attack that left eight policemen dead and wounded. A campaign member said that youth from all ....
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Iran calls on UN to help ease dispatch of humanitarian aid to Gazans
Date: 2014-08-19 15:23:47 GMT - Iran - International - SN:60 - ID:881580
Iran reiterated its deep concern over the catastrophic situation of displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip, and called on the international bodies, particularly the UN, to help Tehran dispatch its humanitarian aid consignments to the coastal enclave, ....
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Party leader welcomes US remarks on Egypt war on terror
Date: 2014-08-19 15:20:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:59 - ID:881574
Leader of the Reform and Development Party (RDP) Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat has welcomed recent statements by the deputy spokesperson for the US State Department on Egypt's war against terrorism in Sinai and other areas. In press statements ....
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Iraqi PM calls for 'precise targeting' of terrorists
Date: 2014-08-19 15:16:52 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:58 - ID:881567
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called on security forces to ensure "precise targeting" on terrorists and avoid hitting the civilians, Iraqi News Agency reported. In a statement issued Tuesday, Abadi praised security forces as "heroes" ....
