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  • Police arrest abductors of Alexandria citizen; victim freed safely

    Date: 2017-11-14 21:54:09 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:81 - ID:7091180

    CAIRO, Nov 14 (MENA) - Security forces on Tuesday arrested the abductors of a citizen in Alexandria. One of the culprits succumbed to wounds he sustained in a fire exchange with security forces. The victim was found in a house owned by another ....

  • US bent on keeping its military presence in Syria — Russian analyst

    Date: 2017-11-14 21:43:36 GMT - Russia - World - SN:80 - ID:7090953

    MOSCOW, Nov 14 (MENA) - Washington is determined to maintain its military presence in Syria although combat operations have largely been completed, Director of the Middle and Near East Center at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies RISI, ....

  • 5 dead at multiple shooting locations in US California county

    Date: 2017-11-14 21:25:44 GMT - USA - World - SN:79 - ID:7091168

    WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (MENA) - At least five people are dead following shootings at multiple locations in Tehama County, including an elementary school where at least two children were wounded, Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday. Authorities ....

  • Efforts to free UK citizen will be 'long-haul': UK former diplomat

    Date: 2017-11-14 21:17:01 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:78 - ID:7090906

    LONDON, Nov 14 (MENA) - Britain’s former ambassador to Tehran has warned against expecting a breakthrough in the fight to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe when UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visits Iran later this year, saying negotiations will ....

  • Russian State Duma Council to send delegation to North Korea

    Date: 2017-11-14 20:59:03 GMT - Russia - World - SN:77 - ID:7090892

    MOSCOW, Nov 14 (MENA) - The State Duma Council has supported a proposal to send a parliamentary delegation to North Korea, Head of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs Leonid Slutsky told TASS on Tuesday. "The State Duma Council has ....

  • Lebanese Maronite Patriarch leaves Riyadh

    Date: 2017-11-14 20:46:49 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:76 - ID:7091104

    RIYADH, Nov 14 (MENA) - Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al Raie of Antioch and all the East left Riyadh on Tuesday's evening. At King Salman Airbase Airport, he was seen off by Minister of State for Arab Gulf Affairs Thamer bin ....

  • Syria signs up to Paris climate pact, leaving US as lone outsider

    Date: 2017-11-14 20:34:17 GMT - Germany - World - SN:75 - ID:7090898

    BONN, Nov 14 (MENA) - Syria has officially signed up to the Paris Agreement, the UN announced on Tuesday. The move leaves the US as the only country to reject the global climate-rescue pact, RT reported. Damascus “deposited its instrument of ....

  • Cultural day organized at Egypt’s embassy in Norway

    Date: 2017-11-14 20:17:07 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:74 - ID:7091055

    CAIRO, Nov 14 (MENA) - Egyptian Ambassador to Norway Mahy Abdel Latif on Tuesday organized a cultural day at the embassy’s headquarters in Oslo. The event, attended by diplomats from Arab and foreign embassies in Oslo in addition to members of ....

  • Deadly shrine bombing plot foiled in Kabul city

    Date: 2017-11-14 20:00:28 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:73 - ID:7090903

    KABUL, Nov 14 (MENA) - The Afghan security forces have foiled a deadly bombing plot to target the worshippers in a shrine in Kabul city, the security officials said late on Monday. The Criminal Investigation Department officials confirmed that ....

  • Port Said to be completely free of slums soon - minister

    Date: 2017-11-14 19:52:49 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:72 - ID:7090990

    CAIRO, Nov 14 (MENA) - Minister of Local Development Hesham el Sherif on Tuesday said Port Said governorate would be completely free of slums by the end of 2017 thanks to the good planning made by officials and bodies concerned. Addressing a ....

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