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AP speaker slams Helwan church attack

Date: 2017-12-29 14:54:37 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:7165078

CAIRO, Dec 29 (MENA) - The Arab Parliament speaker condemned on Friday a terrorist attack that targeted Mar Mina church in Cairo's Helwan district. Such terrorist attacks will not affect the determination of the Egyptian people to uproot ....

AL chief deplores Helwan church attack

Date: 2017-12-29 14:02:31 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:45 - ID:7164912

CAIRO, Dec 29 (MENA) – Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit condemned on Friday a terrorist attack on Mar Mina Church in Helwan in southern Cairo. The attack left a number of policemen and citizens dead and injured. Abul Gheit ....

Bahrain denounces Helwan church attack

Date: 2017-12-29 13:26:32 GMT - Bahrain - Arab world - SN:39 - ID:7164832

MANAMA, Dec 29 (MENA) - Bahrain on Friday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Mar Mina Church in Cairo district of Helwan earlier in the day, leaving several persons dead and injured. In a statement, the Bahraini Ministry of Foreign ....

2 injured in bomb blast south of Baghdad

Date: 2017-12-29 12:04:39 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:7164734

BAGHDAD, Dec 29 (MENA) – Two people were critically wounded when an explosive device went off in Suwaib area, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad, a security source reported. Speaking to AlSumaria News on Friday, the source added that security forces ....

Body of Egyptian national who died in Jordan back home

Date: 2017-12-29 09:45:54 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:7164531

CAIRO, Dec 29 (MENA) - The body of Egyptian national Ali Morsi who died in Jordan arrived here on Friday coming from Amman on an EgyptAir flight. The quarantine office at Cairo International Airport finalized needed procedures to investigate the ....

Iraq: Daesh leader killed in airstrike in Iraqi Diyala province

Date: 2017-12-29 08:45:35 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:7164467

BAGHDAD, Dec 29 (MENA) - A terrorist Daesh leader was killed along with two other accompanying militants in an airstrike that was conducted on Daesh position in northeastern Iraqi province of Diyala, a well-placed security source in Diyala province ....

51 Houthis killed in Arab coalition air strikes in Yemen

Date: 2017-12-29 08:30:25 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:7164441

ADEN, Dec 29 (MENA) - Fifty-one Houthi militants were killed, and dozens others wounded in airstrikes launched by the Arab coalition in Yemen's western coast during the past 24 hours, Yemeni military sources said on Friday. A Houthi field leader ....

Iraq: Five PMF elements injured in bomb blast in Kirkuk

Date: 2017-12-29 08:09:24 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:7164406

BAGHDAD, Dec 29 (MENA) - Five elements of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were wounded in two bomb blasts in southwestern Kirkuk province, a local security source said on Friday. Two explosive devices were planted on the roadside, went off ....

Arab Coalition calls UN to review humanitarian coordinator’s biased stance

Date: 2017-12-28 21:26:17 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:85 - ID:7164262

RIYADH, Dec 28 (MENA) - The Coalition for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen is expressing regret over the statements made by the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Jamie McGoldrick, Al Arabiya News reported on Thursday. In a statement by the ....

Syrian power plant out of service due to shelling attack

Date: 2017-12-28 17:32:38 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:7164031

DAMASCUS, Dec 28 (MENA) - Al-Zara power plant in the southern countryside of Hama went out of service on Thursday as a result to an attack with shells by the armed groups, Syria's SANA news agency reported. The Electricity Ministry said that the ....