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  • Arab rights committee welcomes UNSCR 2334 on illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian lands

    Date: 2017-02-23 09:45:26 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:6573189

    CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - The Permanent Arab Committee for Human Rights welcomed UN Security Council Resolution no 2334, which stated that Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories a "flagrant violation" of international law and has "no legal ....

  • Head of Egypt's rights watchdog meets with EU envoy

    Date: 2017-02-23 09:34:49 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:19 - ID:6573517

    CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - Head of Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Mohamed Fayek received on Thursday EU Special Representative for Human Rights Stavros Lambrinidis. Fayek talked at the meeting about the council's activities in ....

  • Hegazy attends drills conducted by 2nd Field Army forces

    Date: 2017-02-23 09:32:31 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:18 - ID:6573061

    CAIRO, Feb 22 (MENA) - Armed Forces chief-of-staff Mahmoud Hegazy attended on Thursday military exercises carried out by the Second Field Army forces. At the beginning of the ceremony, Hegazy urged the attendees to observe a minute of silence in ....

  • Army: Four tunnels on borders with Gaza destroyed, illegal immigration attempts by 307 people foiled

    Date: 2017-02-23 09:30:53 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:17 - ID:6573433

    CAIRO, Feb 23 (MENA) - Four tunnels on the Egyptian borders with Gaza were destroyed and illegal immigration attempts by 307 people were foiled, the Egyptian army said in a statement on Thursday. Thwarting the illegal immigration attempts in ....

  • China welcomes 'precious' US-born panda Bao Bao

    Date: 2017-02-23 09:09:06 GMT - China - Miscellaneous - SN:16 - ID:6573073

    BEIJING, Feb 23 (MENA) - After a 16-hour flight, American-born panda celebrity Bao Bao arrived home in southwest China Wednesday night, apparently looking well, Xinhua news agency reported. The FedEx Boeing 777 Freighter, painted with picture of a ....

  • 13 Iraqi personnel killed, injured in three terror attacks

    Date: 2017-02-23 09:06:59 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:6573109

    BAGHDAD, Feb 23 (MENA) - Four Iraqi security personnel were killed and nine others injured in three terror attacks on security checkpoints, according to initial counting. Two booby-trapped cars targeted two security checkpoints near al Khales ....

  • Israeli soldier wounded in Nablus bomb explosion

    Date: 2017-02-23 07:56:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:6572801

    RAMALLAH, Feb 23 (MENA) - An Israeli soldier was wounded on Thursday in a bomb explosion in Nablus city in the occupied West Bank. The blast targeted Israeli troops who were accompanying hundreds of settlers while storming Prophet Yusuf Tomb for ....

  • 93 people killed in Syria clashes over past 24 hours

    Date: 2017-02-23 07:53:16 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:6572577

    DAMASCUS, Feb 23 (MENA) - As many as 93 people were killed in clashes throughout Syria over the past 24 hours, local coordination committees said on Thursday. The bodies included 13 children and nine women, Alhurra TV channel quoted the committees ....

  • Egypt-Press-Headlines 4 last Cairo

    Date: 2017-02-23 07:51:07 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:12 - ID:6572565

    -- THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE: - Sisi restarts Egypt's openness to all Africa - President re-affirms respect for independent judiciary - Lavrov: Russia open for dialogue with US on Syria - AI blames Trump, others in global rollback of rights - AL ....

  • Egypt-Press-Headlines 3 Cairo

    Date: 2017-02-23 07:50:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:6572901

    -- AL GOMHURIA: - China to pump dlrs 20bn in investments in Egypt - Border guards manage to destroy main underground tunnel in N. Sinai - Dlrs 12bn in Italian investments in Egypt - Electricity min.: 4 contracts of new nuclear plant ready for ....

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