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  • Street vendors to be relocated in Torgoman park within 10 days - Governor

    Street vendors to be relocated in Torgoman park within 10 days - Governor

    Date: 2014-08-13 12:52:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:872192

    Cairo Governor Galal el-Saeed said on Tuesday that street vendors would be relocated in Torgoman parking lot in downtown Cairo within 10 days. "The parking lot accommodates 1,750 peddlers who will be moved in two phases," the governor said. He ....

  • Araby receives leader of Sudanese Ummah Party

    Araby receives leader of Sudanese Ummah Party

    Date: 2014-08-13 12:42:48 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:872172

    Arab League (AL) chief Nabil El-Araby met on Wednesday with leader of the Sudanese Ummah Party Al-Sadek Al-Mahdy. The meeting took up the crises plaguing Sudan and the role of the AL on this score. In press statements after the meeting, Mahdy ....

  • Former UN chief slams HRW Rabaa report

    Former UN chief slams HRW Rabaa report

    Date: 2014-08-13 12:39:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:872165

    Former United Nations Secretary General Botros Botros Ghaly has criticized as biased the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the dispersal of the Rabaa el-Adaweya sit-in in August 2013. He added that the organization adopted the view point of ....

  • Mubarak speaks at court to defend himself

    Mubarak speaks at court to defend himself

    Date: 2014-08-13 11:18:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:871952

    Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday listened to a statement by former president Hosni Mubarak defending himself at court in his retrial over charges of killing protesters in January 2011 along with other charges of corruption and squandering public ....

  • Mufti: Peaceful demonstration is a vested right

    Mufti: Peaceful demonstration is a vested right

    Date: 2014-08-13 10:11:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:871795

    Mufti of the Republic Shawki Allam on Wednesday said that peaceful demonstration is a vested right for every citizen that is guaranteed by the law and constitution. In a released statement, he explained that the right is protected by several ....

  • U.S. rushes arms to Kurdish forces as air strikes only slow ISIL advance

    U.S. rushes arms to Kurdish forces as air strikes only slow ISIL advance

    Date: 2014-08-13 10:02:38 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:871778

    The United States has reported arms shipments to the Kurdish Regional Government, World Tribune reported. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama approved delivery of weapons to Kurdish security forces, called Peshmerga, in ....

  • Hamas says Lieberman statements ridiculous

    Hamas says Lieberman statements ridiculous

    Date: 2014-08-13 09:59:29 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:871771

    Hamas termed as ridiculous threats of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to assassinate deputy head of Hamas political office Ismail Haniyah and commander of Qassam Brigades Mohamed al-Deif. In statements, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zhuri ....

  • Interior Ministry detects attempts by MB to block public transportation

    Interior Ministry detects attempts by MB to block public transportation

    Date: 2014-08-13 09:53:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:871758

    The Interior Ministry has detected on Wednesday attempts by members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to block the movement of the public transportation means in several areas in Giza governorate through setting their engines ....

  • Egypt renews strong condemnation of Gaza aggression

    Egypt renews strong condemnation of Gaza aggression

    Date: 2014-08-13 09:13:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:871653

    Egypt renewed on Wednesday its strong condemnation of the Israeli aggression on Gaza that has been going on for weeks now. Egypt, in a word at the extraordinary ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah, ....

  • Tony Abbott says Australia poised to join humanitarian effort

    Tony Abbott says Australia poised to join humanitarian effort

    Date: 2014-08-13 07:50:22 GMT - Australia - International - SN:11 - ID:871493

    Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott says at this stage Australia will only play a humanitarian role in Iraq, as the United Nations calls for the global community to take "urgent" action to avoid a genocide against the Yazidi community, ABC ....

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