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  • Arabi urges Syrian gov't forces to halt shelling operations on residential areas

    Arabi urges Syrian gov't forces to halt shelling operations on residential areas

    Date: 2013-12-25 11:17:33 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:460718

    Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Arabi expressed deep worry over increase of violence and killing in Syria, calling on the Syrian government forces to halt their air raids with missiles and explosive barrels on residential areas on Aleppo and ....

  • 10 injured in clashes between Brotherhood students, security personnel in Zagazig university

    10 injured in clashes between Brotherhood students, security personnel in Zagazig university

    Date: 2013-12-25 11:11:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:460697

    Pro-Brotherhood students in Zagazig University clashed Wednesday with their opponents and administrative security personnel, leaving behind more than 10 students and security personnel wounded. Police entered the university HQ to contain the ....

  • Smuggled heart stents worth 3 million EGP seized at Cairo airport

    Smuggled heart stents worth 3 million EGP seized at Cairo airport

    Date: 2013-12-25 11:00:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:460674

    Cairo Airport Customs aborted Wednesday an attempt to smuggle heart stents worth three million pounds inside the luggage of an Egyptian passenger coming back from the UAE. The passenger was held in custody and the stents were seized. The ....

  • Sekina Fouad: Presidency has evidence on Brotherhood involvement in Daqalia attack

    Sekina Fouad: Presidency has evidence on Brotherhood involvement in Daqalia attack

    Date: 2013-12-25 10:56:37 GMT - Algeria - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:460662

    The Egyptian presidency has evidence proving the embroilment of the Brotherhood in the recent terror attack on Daqahlia security directorate, said the presidential adviser for women affairs. In statements to the Algerian newspaper Echorouk out ....

  • Ban Ki-Moon calls on Israel, Hamas to show restraint

    Ban Ki-Moon calls on Israel, Hamas to show restraint

    Date: 2013-12-25 10:52:59 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:460656

    UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon on Wednesday called on Israel and Hamas to exercise restraint to defuse the escalation in the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported. “The Secretary-General rejects all actions targeting civilians and calls on ....

  • Pro-Machar forces seize control of Upper Nile's capital

    Pro-Machar forces seize control of Upper Nile's capital

    Date: 2013-12-25 10:51:04 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:460650

    Forces loyal to sacked vice president Riek Machar seized on Wednesday control of Malakal, the capital of the oil-rich Upper Nile province, after fierce clashes with army forces of President Salva Kiir according to the South Sudanese news ....

  • Qandil sent to Mazr'a prison

    Qandil sent to Mazr'a prison

    Date: 2013-12-25 10:33:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:460618

    Former Egyptian premier Hisham Qandil was sent Wednesday to Mazr'a prison in Tura facility in line with a court ruling, a security source said. In statements to MENA Wednesday, the source said Qandil was deported under tight security to the ....

  • Two mega private bakeries get licenses to produce subsidized bread

    Two mega private bakeries get licenses to produce subsidized bread

    Date: 2013-12-25 10:29:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:460606

    Two mega private bakeries were granted license for producing subsidized bread in the cities of Fayed and Abu-Soweir in Ismailia governorate, the supply minister said. In a statement Wednesday, Mohamed Abu-Shadi said Ismailia governorate has ....

  • UN official says 'absolutely no doubt' thousands dead in South Sudan

    UN official says 'absolutely no doubt' thousands dead in South Sudan

    Date: 2013-12-25 09:58:00 GMT - South Sudan - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:460513

    The United Nations' humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan said that he had "absolutely no doubt" that thousands of people had been killed in violence that threatens to tear the world's newest country apart a little more than two years after it won ....

  • 40 million pounds allocated for remaining restoration works of Egypt's National Theater

    40 million pounds allocated for remaining restoration works of Egypt's National Theater

    Date: 2013-12-25 09:40:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:460470

    Egypt's Planning Minister Ashraf al-Arabi approved on Wednesday 40 million pounds for the remaining development and restoration works of the country's National Theater in Cairo's Al Attaba district. The theater is to be opened by the end of ....

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