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  • Strategic Rockets ensure Russia survival as sovereign state: Putin

    Strategic Rockets ensure Russia survival as sovereign state: Putin

    Date: 2013-11-28 10:41:36 GMT - Russia - International - SN:14 - ID:411388

    Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces will receive 22 intercontinental ballistic missiles next year, President Vladimir Putin said. "This year, two missile regiments will be equipped with new mobile systems, and next year, the Strategic Rocket Forces ....

  • Scores of settlers break into Al Aqsa Mosque

    Scores of settlers break into Al Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2013-11-28 09:17:29 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:411221

    Scores of Jewish settlers, accompanied by several rabbis, broke into Al Aqsa mosque from Bab Magharba gate under the protection of the Israeli army on Thursday, to mark Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights and religious freedom. The ....

  • وزير الإسكان : بدء إنشاء 11332 وحدة سكنية بقنا وأسوان والأقصر والوادى الجديد

    وزير الإسكان : بدء إنشاء 11332 وحدة سكنية بقنا وأسوان والأقصر والوادى الجديد

    Date: 2013-11-28 09:03:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:411194

    وقع المهندس إبراهيم محلب، وزير الإسكان والمرافق والمجتمعات العمرانية، بروتوكولات مع محافظات قنا وأسوان والأقصر والوادى الجديد، لبدء إنشاء 11332 وحدة سكنية بالمحافظات الأربع، وذلك ضمن المرحلة الثانية لبرنامج الإسكان الاجتماعى، التى يشرف على تنفيذها ....

  • Five students arrested in Nasr City over unlicensed protesting

    Five students arrested in Nasr City over unlicensed protesting

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:52:55 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:411169

    Five students were arrested Thursday over staging a protest in Cairo's eastern neighborhood of Nasr City without having a police permit according to a recently-issued protest law. According to the law, organizers of any protest should be given ....

  • Russia opens criminal case against former defense minister

    Russia opens criminal case against former defense minister

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:41:00 GMT - Russia - International - SN:10 - ID:411147

    A criminal case on negligence charges has been opened against former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, Novosti reported quoting Russian investigators Thursday. Serdyukov caused 56 million rubles ($1.7 million) worth of damage to the state by ....

  • Red Cross speaks about govt guarantees for Dammaj wounded in Yemen

    Red Cross speaks about govt guarantees for Dammaj wounded in Yemen

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:39:01 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:411139

    The International Committee of the Red Cross said it has been given guarantees from the Yemeni government before starting to evacuate people wounded in clashes between Shiite and Sunni Muslim fighters in the Yemeni town of Dammaj. It said the ....

  • Iran positive on Geneva 2 Syria talks: Deputy FM

    Iran positive on Geneva 2 Syria talks: Deputy FM

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:37:55 GMT - Iran - International - SN:8 - ID:411137

    The Iranian Foreign Ministry says Tehran is optimistic about the upcoming round of international Syria talks in Geneva, stressing Iran’s call for a political solution to the Syrian crisis, Press TV reported. The Islamic Republic of Iran insists ....

  • Berri denies playing as mediator between Iran, Saudi Arabia

    Berri denies playing as mediator between Iran, Saudi Arabia

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:37:55 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:411136

    Lebanese Chamber of Deputies Speaker Nabieh Berri denied playing any mediator role between Saudi Arabia and Iran but at the same time he expressed readiness to do any efforts to defuse tension between the two countries as he believes it will ....

  • Afghanistan: Reject stoning, flogging, amputation and other Taliban-era punishments

    Afghanistan: Reject stoning, flogging, amputation and other Taliban-era punishments

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:32:43 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:6 - ID:411124

    Afghanistan’s proposed reinstatement of atrocious punishments would mark a dangerous return to legalized state brutality, Amnesty International said today as it urged the authorities to reject such plans. Public stoning to death, amputation of ....

  • UN Security Council warns Yemen 'opportunists' against delaying constitution, elections

    UN Security Council warns Yemen 'opportunists' against delaying constitution, elections

    Date: 2013-11-28 08:11:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:411090

    The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday warned partisans of Yemen's former president and other "opportunists" not to boycott the drafting of a constitution or delay preparations for national elections. The Security Council issued a statement ....

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