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  • 7th int'l conference on technology kicks off in Alexandria

    7th int'l conference on technology kicks off in Alexandria

    Date: 2013-12-15 10:17:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:440800

    Alexandria Governor Major General Tarek El-Madhi inaugurated on Sunday the 7th international conference on technology and horizons of sustainable development in the 21st century. The three-day conference will discuss 18 researches on means of ....

  • North Korean Leader checks on ski resort progress

    North Korean Leader checks on ski resort progress

    Date: 2013-12-15 10:16:01 GMT - North Korea - International - SN:16 - ID:440798

    North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has visited a ski resort under construction to check on its progress, just days after he had his uncle executed, Yonhap reported Sunday. The young leader praised soldiers and laborers for helping speed up ....

  • Turkmenistan holds elections without opposition

    Turkmenistan holds elections without opposition

    Date: 2013-12-15 10:13:46 GMT - Turkmenistan - International - SN:14 - ID:440785

    Voters in Turkmenistan have been casting ballots in the country's first multi-party elections, ABC news reported. For the first time since Turkmenistan gained independence in 1991, more than one party will participate in the polls. However, ....

  • Fuel pumped to Gaza power station after 45 days hiatus

    Fuel pumped to Gaza power station after 45 days hiatus

    Date: 2013-12-15 09:46:04 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:440710

    The Israeli authorities allowed Sunday the pumping of 450,000 liters of diesel to Gaza power station after it has been halted for 45 days for lack of fuel. Also, limited amounts of cooking gas and fuel were allowed via Kerm Abu Salem crossing in ....

  • Deputy FM: Iran not to allow Takfiri terrorists to trouble Tehran-Baghdad ties

    Deputy FM: Iran not to allow Takfiri terrorists to trouble Tehran-Baghdad ties

    Date: 2013-12-15 09:26:26 GMT - Iran - International - SN:12 - ID:440683

    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian condemned the Friday terrorist attack which killed 20 Iranian oil and gas experts in Iraq, and said the Takfiri extremists who should be blamed for the operation ....

  • MB defeated in Suez Doctors' Syndicate elections

    MB defeated in Suez Doctors' Syndicate elections

    Date: 2013-12-15 09:22:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:440680

    Muslim Brotherhood candidates were defeated in the Suez Syndicate of Doctors elections and this signals the decline of their popularity, a leading National Salvation Front member said on Sunday. The MB candidates have been dominating the union ....

  • Palestinian teen wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza

    Palestinian teen wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza

    Date: 2013-12-15 08:58:37 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:440625

    A Palestinian teenager was wounded when Israeli forces opened fire at him in northern Gaza Strip, a Health Ministry spokesman said Sunday. The 16-year-old teen sustained a bullet in the left feet and was taken to a nearby hospital, said Ashraf ....

  • Syrian opposition seeks more help from abroad, warns of chaos

    Syrian opposition seeks more help from abroad, warns of chaos

    Date: 2013-12-15 08:37:19 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:440585

    Syrian opposition leaders called on Western and Arab allies to give them funding to reorganise their forces after Islamist fighters seized some of their weapons, the BBC reported. Monzer Akbik, chief of staff in the Syrian National Coalition, ....

  • Kuwait among Egypt's five top investors - minister

    Kuwait among Egypt's five top investors - minister

    Date: 2013-12-15 08:29:24 GMT - Kuwait - Economy - SN:8 - ID:440566

    Egypt's investment minister said Kuwait is among the biggest five foreign investors in the country with more than 900 operating in the Egyptian market with total investments of 2.8 billion dollars. Osama Saleh, in an interview with Al Seyassah ....

  • 5 of same family killed in blast in Baqouba

    5 of same family killed in blast in Baqouba

    Date: 2013-12-15 08:27:35 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:440563

    Five members of the same family were killed in a blast in northern Baqouba on Sunday, a security source said. Unidentified gunmen blew up several explosive devices in the precincts of a house owned by a Diyala Health Department employee, the ....

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