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  • Putin gives speech on 20th constitution anniversary

    Putin gives speech on 20th constitution anniversary

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:42:48 GMT - Russia - International - SN:22 - ID:436025

    Russian President Vladimir Putin will deliver his annual address to the Federal Assembly later Thursday, to mark the day the Russian Constitution was adopted 20 years ago, ITAR-TASS news agency reported. The Kremlin has released few details about ....

  • Alexandria, Dekheila ports still closed over bad weather

    Alexandria, Dekheila ports still closed over bad weather

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:41:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:436021

    Alexandria Port Authority decided on Thursday to keep the Alexandria and Dekheila harbors closed for the second consecutive day due to bad weather and strong winds. Adel Yassin Hamad, head of the authority, said the two ports were closed to ship ....

  • Kerry back to Mideast to push peace talks

    Kerry back to Mideast to push peace talks

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:40:39 GMT - Israel - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:436017

    US Secretary of State John Kerry, continuing a furious pace of shuttle diplomacy aimed at securing an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by the spring, arrives in the Middle East on Thursday on his ninth trip of the year, Yediot Ahronot ....

  • Hamas PM phones Abbas on humanitarian situation in Gaza

    Hamas PM phones Abbas on humanitarian situation in Gaza

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:36:46 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:436006

    Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh phoned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip, that has been under a tight Israeli siege since Hamas took control of the coastal enclave in June of ....

  • US closely following up trials of MB leaderships

    US closely following up trials of MB leaderships

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:35:48 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:436002

    The State Department is closely following up the trials of Muslim Brotherhood leaderships in Egypt, urging the necessity of trying civilians before civilian and not military courts, said spokeswoman Jen Psak. She expressed the US's welcome of ....

  • Meslamani: Sisi does not rule Egypt

    Meslamani: Sisi does not rule Egypt

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:33:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:435995

    Egyptian Presidential Adviser for Media Affairs Ahmed el-Meslamani stressed that Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is not the one who rules Egypt, saying Egypt is ruled by interim President Adly Mansour. Sisi does not do anything beyond his ....

  • 20 arrested over storming police stations in Menya

    20 arrested over storming police stations in Menya

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:32:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:16 - ID:435991

    As many as 20 people were arrested over storming of police stations and State facilities in Menya in August. The violence came after the dispersal of two sit-ins of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo in August. ....

  • MB lied to reach power -- presidential adviser

    MB lied to reach power -- presidential adviser

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:31:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:15 - ID:435989

    Presidential adviser Mostafa Hegazy accused the Muslim Brotherhood group of fanning lies to ascend power in Egypt. In an interview with Al-Nahar TV, Hegazy called on political powers to engage into a national partnership in line with a specific ....

  • Kidnapped US expert released in Behira

    Kidnapped US expert released in Behira

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:30:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:14 - ID:435987

    A kidnapped US expert was released on Wednesday in Beheira, north of Cairo. Earlier in the day, the US expert, identified as Rocky Pronto, was kidnapped at gunpoint by masked men. He was abducted while driving a car and heading for Abu ....

  • 14 wounded in Wednesday clashes, no deaths reported - Health Ministry

    14 wounded in Wednesday clashes, no deaths reported - Health Ministry

    Date: 2013-12-12 08:26:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:13 - ID:435970

    Fourteen people were wounded in Wednesday clashes between security men and supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, Giza but no deaths have been reported so far, the Health Ministry said in a statement. Five wounded were checked ....

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