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Tunisian coast guards thwart attempt by 66 people to illegally migrate to Italy
Date: 2017-11-21 12:30:41 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:7101529
TUNIS, Nov 21 (MENA) - Tunisian coast guards in the city of Sfax thwarted Tuesday an attempt by 66 people to illegally migrate to Italy. The Tunisian interior ministry said in a statement that these people were on a fishing boat 14 miles from Sfax ....
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MB leader Mohamed Beshr receives conditional release
Date: 2017-11-21 12:25:07 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:37 - ID:7101437
CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) – The Cairo Criminal Court has ordered that terrorist Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Aly Beshr and five other defendants receive a conditional release for 45 days pending investigations into spy charges. The Supreme State ....
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Athens traffic snarled as subway workers hold 24-hour strike
Date: 2017-11-21 12:22:55 GMT - Greece - World - SN:36 - ID:7101531
ATHENS, Nov 21 (MENA) - Workers on the Greek capital's subway system had walked off the job in a 24-hour strike that has snarled traffic across Athens, Fox News reported on Tuesday. The metro workers' union called the strike to protest what they ....
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Egypt, Cyprus, Greece sign cooperation agreements in tourism
Date: 2017-11-21 12:16:19 GMT - Cyprus - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:35 - ID:7101486
NICOSIA, Nov 21 (MENA) - Egypt, Cyprus and Greece signed Tuesday cooperation agreements in the tourism field, in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades and Greek Prime Minister Alexis ....
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65 ships transit Suez Canal
Date: 2017-11-21 12:02:25 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:34 - ID:7101470
ISMAILIA, Egypt, Nov 21 (MENA) - Sixty-five ships transited the Suez Canal on Tuesday, with a total cargo of 3.2 million tons. The south-bound convoy included 40 vessels carrying around 1.9 million tons, while the north-bound convoy included 25 ....
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Trial of defendants in MB armed sit-in case adjourned until Dec. 2
Date: 2017-11-21 12:00:16 GMT - Egypt - Justice - SN:33 - ID:7101424
CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) - The Cairo Criminal Court has adjourned until December 2 the trial of Guide of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group Mohamed Badie and 738 other MB leaders and elements implicated in the Rabaa armed sit-in case. The court ....
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Sisi greets Lebanon, Oman on national days
Date: 2017-11-21 11:59:07 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:32 - ID:7101372
CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Tuesday delegated presidential secretary Abdel Aziz Shreif to the Lebanese embassy in Cairo to convey greetings on the occasion of Lebanon's Independence day. Sisi also delegated ....
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Russia: No date yet for Syria's national dialogue
Date: 2017-11-21 11:57:39 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:7101430
MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) - Russian Presidential Spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Tuesday that preparations for holding the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in the Russian Sochi city are underway. On the date on which Congress will convene, Sputnik ....
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Syria’s government troops control nearly 98% of territory — Putin
Date: 2017-11-21 11:55:31 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:7101412
MOSCOW, Nov 21 (MENA) - Syria’s government troops control nearly 98% of the country’s territory and the terrorists’ remaining pockets of resistance are shrinking, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his opening remarks at a meeting with Czech ....
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Death toll from suicide bombing in northern Nigeria rises to 50
Date: 2017-11-21 11:46:17 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:29 - ID:7101369
ABUJA, Nov 21 (MENA) - The death toll from the suicide bombing that hit a mosque in the town of Mubi, northeastern Nigeria rose to 50 people, police spokesman Othman Abubakar, said on Tuesday. “There could be more killings as those seriously ....