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  • Lebanese PM calls off vacation over ex-minister assassination

    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, ....

  • Gharbiya on high alert ahead of MB protests

    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 ....

  • Sisi orders humanitarian aid to S. Sudan

    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 ....

  • Palestinians support Egypt’s army - minister

    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 ....

  • Moussa condemns Shatah assassination

    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 ....

  • Intense security at Tahrir, Defense Ministry, Ittihadiya, Rabaa

    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 ....

  • Lebanon's Hariri slams adviser killing in Beirut blast

    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 ....

  • Kerry condemns Mansoura attack

    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 ....

  • Egyptian Exchange indexes up last week

    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 ....

  • 6 April movement to protest for actvisits' release: leader

    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 ....

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