English webnews

  • Service : English
  • Egypt completely safe from Corona Virus: minister

    Egypt completely safe from Corona Virus: minister

    Date: 2014-05-02 11:18:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:699279

    Health Minister Adel Adawy said that Egypt is completely safe from fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV). "Only one case has been detected with the fatal virus so far in Egypt,"Adawy said in a press conference on ....

  • Kerry arrives in S. Sudan to call for applying ceasefire agreement

    Kerry arrives in S. Sudan to call for applying ceasefire agreement

    Date: 2014-05-02 11:02:36 GMT - South Sudan - International - SN:8 - ID:699254

    US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived here to call for applying a ceasefire agreement in South Sudan. There has been a conflict in South Sudan for months and there is a famine threat. ....

  • Mufti condemns Egypt's Friday bombings

    Mufti condemns Egypt's Friday bombings

    Date: 2014-05-02 11:00:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:699245

    Egypt's Mufti decried the triple terror attacks that hit Egypt on Friday morning. In a statement, Shawqi Allam said Prophet Muhammed stressed the sanctity of blood. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a security roadblock in South Sinai, killing ....

  • Twin car bombs claim 18 lives, injure more than 50 others in Hama countryside

    Twin car bombs claim 18 lives, injure more than 50 others in Hama countryside

    Date: 2014-05-02 10:00:00 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:699118

    18 civilians, including 11 children, were killed and more than 50 others were injured by twin terrorist explosions of two car bomb in the towns of Jidreen and al-Hmairi in Hama countryside. A source in the province told SANA reporter that a ....

  • Sabahi launches campaign for Egyptians living abroad

    Sabahi launches campaign for Egyptians living abroad

    Date: 2014-05-02 09:55:55 GMT - France - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:699112

    Coordinators of presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi said they launched a campaign for Egyptians living in France, Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. The campaign is being held under the rubric: "Know your candidate, vote, share in the future ....

  • Egypt ready to cooperate in peacekeeping fields: Fahmi to Ban

    Egypt ready to cooperate in peacekeeping fields: Fahmi to Ban

    Date: 2014-05-02 08:30:43 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:4 - ID:698951

    During his meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi asserted Egypt's keenness to participate in peacekeeping operations of the UN in Mali and Central Africa. Ban welcomed this and lauded the performance ....

  • Interior minister mourns traffic policeman killed in Heliopolis court blast

    Interior minister mourns traffic policeman killed in Heliopolis court blast

    Date: 2014-05-02 08:25:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:698945

    Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim extended sincere condolences over the death of a traffic policeman in a blast that took place outside the Heliopolis court. Major General Abdel-Fattah Othman, the assistant interior minister for media affairs, ....

  • One policeman dead, four wounded in Heliopolis court blast

    One policeman dead, four wounded in Heliopolis court blast

    Date: 2014-05-02 08:23:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:2 - ID:698939

    A policeman was killed and an officer and three conscripts were wounded in a blast that took place outside the Heliopolis court, an interior ministry source told MENA. A homemade bomb was behind the blast, he said, adding bomb squads are combing ....

  • UN chief urges continued focus on Middle East peace efforts

    UN chief urges continued focus on Middle East peace efforts

    Date: 2014-05-02 08:13:50 GMT - United Nations - International - SN:1 - ID:698923

    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Israelis and Palestinians to exercise prudence and avoid unilateral steps that would diminish the prospects of resuming negotiations after the latest downturn in the Middle East peace ....

  • 31 persons injured when bus overturned on Safaga road

    31 persons injured when bus overturned on Safaga road

    Date: 2014-05-01 19:33:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:698577

    As many as 31 people were injured when their bus overturned on Safaga-Qena road, the Health Ministry said in a statement Thursday. The injured were moved to Hurghada Public Hospital. ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD