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  • Shoukry starts visit to Brussels, Geneva on Sunday

    Shoukry starts visit to Brussels, Geneva on Sunday

    Date: 2018-02-24 10:22:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:7262419

    Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will start on Sunday a short trip to Brussels and Geneva, foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in a statement on Saturday. Shoukry will on Monday take part in a meeting bringing together the foreign ....

  • Israeli forces arrest 2 Palestinian fishermen in Beit Lahia

    Israeli forces arrest 2 Palestinian fishermen in Beit Lahia

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:56:02 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7262365

    The Israeli occupation forces arrested on Saturday two Palestinian fishermen and seized their boats off the coast of Beit Lahia in north of the Gaza Strip. According to local Palestinian sources, the Israeli forces also opened fire heavily on the ....

  • Yemeni army besieges Houthis in their main stronghold in Saada

    Yemeni army besieges Houthis in their main stronghold in Saada

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:47:50 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:7262353

    The Yemeni army has besieged three sites held by the Houthi militias in their main stronghold in Saada governorate, a Yemeni commander said Saturday. In statements to Al Hadath channel, the army commander noted that the Yemeni forces are also ....

  • Hariri lauds investment opportunities in Egypt

    Hariri lauds investment opportunities in Egypt

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:42:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7262334

    Egypt is a promising market, particularly in the field of communications and IT, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al Hariri says. In a meeting in Beirut with visiting Investment and International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr, Hariri also ....

  • 93 Yemeni people killed, injured by Houthi militias in Taiz in January

    93 Yemeni people killed, injured by Houthi militias in Taiz in January

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:32:49 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7262321

    Ninety-Three Yemeni people, including women and children, were killed and injured in shelling launched by Houthi militants on Taiz province during January. In a report released by Human Rights Information and Training Center (HRITC), it said ....

  • Sports Ministry to launch anti-harassment policy Monday

    Sports Ministry to launch anti-harassment policy Monday

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:24:34 GMT - Egypt - Sport - SN:4 - ID:7262306

    The Sports Ministry will launch an anti-harassment policy, the first in Egypt, in cooperation with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). The policy will be declared in a press conference on Monday, said Dina Fouad, ....

  • 46 Houthi militants killed on Yemen's western coast

    46 Houthi militants killed on Yemen's western coast

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:04:03 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7262178

    Forty-six Houthi militants have been killed in clashes with Yemeni troops on the western coast. Arab coalition jets, meanwhile, hit military reinforcements sent to the Iranian Houthi militia in al Jah district of al Derihemi on the western coast ....

  • Cypriot Speaker urges int'l community to exert pressure on Turkey for actions in EEZ

    Cypriot Speaker urges int'l community to exert pressure on Turkey for actions in EEZ

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:03:44 GMT - Cyprus - International - SN:2 - ID:7262246

    Cypriot House President Demetris Syllouris has urged the international community to exert pressure on Turkey over what he described as its "illegal and provocative undertakings" within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and Continental Shelf (CS) of ....

  • Egypt, Lebanon agree on future economic deal-- minister

    Egypt, Lebanon agree on future economic deal-- minister

    Date: 2018-02-24 09:02:47 GMT - Lebanon - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:7262261

    Egypt and Lebanon have agreed on a future economic plan, said Investment and International Cooperation Minister Sahar Nasr. Emerging from a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al Hariri on Friday night, Nasr said they discussed the ....

  • Two people killed near UBS branch in Swiss city

    Two people killed near UBS branch in Swiss city

    Date: 2018-02-23 20:31:32 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:11 - ID:7261898

    The police said that two people have been shot dead outside a branch of the UBS bank in the Swiss city of Zurich, the BBC News reported. The shooting took place shortly before 14:30 local time (13:30 GMT) on Lagerstrasse in the Europaallee ....

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