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Lebanese PM calls off vacation over ex-minister assassination
Date: 2013-12-27 12:24:18 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:464396
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati decided to call off his vacation and head back to Lebanon after the assassination of Mohamad Chatah, a former Lebanese minister of finance. “We condemn this assassination, which targeted a respected, ....
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Gharbiya on high alert ahead of MB protests
Date: 2013-12-27 12:21:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:464385
A heavy police presence was deployed around Gharbiya’s security directorate, municipal building, public prison and vital institutions on Friday to secure them against vandalism and planned Muslim Brotherhood marches. Roadblocks were spread all ....
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Sisi orders humanitarian aid to S. Sudan
Date: 2013-12-27 12:18:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:464371
Deputy Prime Minister, Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief and Defense Minister General Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi ordered dispatching a military jet to fly urgent humanitarian aid to South Sudan. The C-130 jet left at dawn from a military base carrying ....
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Palestinians support Egypt’s army - minister
Date: 2013-12-27 12:15:51 GMT - palestine - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:464365
The Palestinian leadership and people support Egypt and its army, said Palestinian Awqaf Minister Mahmoud al-Habash. Delivering the Friday sermon in a mosque at the presidential premises here, Habash said the Palestinians denounce the bomb ....
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Moussa condemns Shatah assassination
Date: 2013-12-27 12:14:32 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:464359
Chairman of the charter panel Amr Moussa on Friday condemned the terrorist attack in Lebanon that left former finance minister Mohamed Chatah dead. Moussa, on his Facebook account, denounced terrorism that is sweeping the Arab world. He called ....
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Intense security at Tahrir, Defense Ministry, Ittihadiya, Rabaa
Date: 2013-12-27 12:09:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:464347
Intensive security presence was seen in the vicinities of Tahrir Square, Ittihadiya Palace, Defense Ministry and Rabaa Adawiya Square in Cairo on Friday in anticipation of Muslim Brotherhood protests. Military vehicles were deployed along the ....
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Lebanon's Hariri slams adviser killing in Beirut blast
Date: 2013-12-27 12:06:34 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:464332
Lebanese former prime minister Saad Hariri condemned on Friday the assassination of his adviser Mohammed Chatah. “Chatah's murderers are the same ones who assassinated former premier Rafik Hariri,” he said in a statement, referring to his father ....
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Kerry condemns Mansoura attack
Date: 2013-12-27 12:01:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:464326
In a phone conversation with Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, US Secretary of State John Kerry has condoled with families of victims who fell to the terrorist attack on the Mansoura police HQ on Tuesday. Kerry totally condemned the bombing, which ....
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Egyptian Exchange indexes up last week
Date: 2013-12-27 11:05:04 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:6 - ID:464187
The Egyptian Exchange indexes closed last week up and the market capital gained EGP 2.7 billion to hit EGP 426 billion. During the course of the week, the benchmark index EGX 30 jumped 0.95 percent to 6,813 points, said a weekly report issued by ....
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6 April movement to protest for actvisits' release: leader
Date: 2013-12-27 11:03:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:464178
A leader of the April 6 movement in Kafr el-Sheikh said the group will press ahead with more pressure on the interior ministry to release detained activists. "The group will stage protests throughout the week across the country not only in Kafr ....