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Gharbiya Police chief denies assaulting citizen in Tanta police station
Date: 2014-12-27 21:15:41 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:118 - ID:1625053
TANTA, Dec 27 (MENA) – Head of Gharbiya Security Directorate Osama Bedir denied on Saturday news reports saying that a citizen was assaulted inside Tanta police station for belonging to a terrorist group. He said such news reports were unfounded, ....
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Alex.-based factories warned over harmful waste -- minister
Date: 2014-12-27 19:30:57 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:101 - ID:1624633
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Dec 27 (MENA) - Three companies have been warned over their factories' harmful waste, said the environment minister on Saturday. The firms, producing petrochemical, sodium and textile products, were given two months to settle ....
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Thousands protest in Mexico City over missing students
Date: 2014-12-27 11:33:47 GMT - Mexico - Miscellaneous - SN:37 - ID:1621653
MEXICO CITY, Dec 27 (MENA) - The relatives of 43 missing Mexican students held protests in several cities across the country to mark three months since their disappearance. At a demonstration in Mexico City an estimated two thousand activists ....
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Malaysian PM cuts vacation short over floods
Date: 2014-12-27 08:24:24 GMT - Malaysia - Miscellaneous - SN:17 - ID:1620633
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 (MENA) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak cut short his US vacation to deal with his country's worst floods in years,The BBC reported. Five people have been killed and more than 100,000 displaced following unusually ....
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Argentine president hospitalized for sprained ankle
Date: 2014-12-27 08:01:23 GMT - Argentina - Miscellaneous - SN:12 - ID:1620337
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 27 (MENA) - Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was hospitalized after spraining her ankle, according to Sky News. The 61-year-old leader had been resting at her home in southern Santa Cruz province, from where she was taken ....
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More than 100,000 evacuated after floods in Malaysia
Date: 2014-12-26 06:45:49 GMT - Malaysia - Miscellaneous - SN:8 - ID:1615405
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 (MENA) - More than 100,000 people have evacuated their homes in parts of northern Malaysia hit by the country's worst monsoon floods in decades. Prime minister Najib Razak said extremely high levels of floodwater and bad ....
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Obama falls far short of expectations -- Poll says
Date: 2014-12-25 03:45:12 GMT - USA - Miscellaneous - SN:11 - ID:1608897
WASHINGTON, Dec 25 (MENA) -- Improving views of the US economy have helped hike President Barack Obama's approval rating to a 20-month high, a new CNN/ORC poll showed Tuesday. More Americans still disapprove of the job Obama is doing as ....
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Trade relations between Egypt, China started thousand year ago -- archaeologist
Date: 2014-12-24 10:12:56 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:49 - ID:1603453
CAIRO, Dec 24 (MENA) - Trade relations between Egypt and China existed a thousand years ago, an Egyptian archaeologist says. Abdel Rehim Rihan, in statements to MENA Wednesday, said many Chinese products had been detected at the old Raas Raya and ....
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Culture min. honors distinguished writers
Date: 2014-12-23 19:42:26 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:169 - ID:1600889
ASSUIT, Dec 23 (MENA) – Culture Minister Gaber Asfour honored Tuesday some Egyptian literati for their distinguished efforts in enriching the cultural life. This came during kicking off the activities of the 29th conference for Egyptian literati, ....
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Putin decribes launching of Angara rocket as great event
Date: 2014-12-23 08:29:58 GMT - Russia - Miscellaneous - SN:29 - ID:1594589
MOSCOW, Dec 23 (MENA) - A new Russian heavy rocket was successfully test-launched from the Plesetsk space center on Tuesday as planned at 08:57am Moscow time, Tass News Agency reported. The head unit has separated from the third stage of the ....
