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  • Landmine blast at Somali army checkpoint leaves 2 dead

    Date: 2017-02-15 17:05:39 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:62 - ID:6530069

    MOGADISHU, Feb 15 (MENA) - Two soldiers are reported to have been killed, and four others sustained wounds after a remote-controlled landmine blast occurred at an army checkpoint in Tihsile area near Wanlaweyn in Somalia, Shabelle Media Network ....

  • Sobhi: Egypt on right track to restore regional, int'l role

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:41:55 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:61 - ID:6529929

    CAIRO, Feb 15 (MENA) - Egypt is on the right track to restore its pioneering role at the regional and international levels, Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi said on Wednesday. Speaking at a meeting with cadets of the Command and Staff College, Sobhi ....

  • 5 Iraqis killed, 20 wounded in car bomb blast in eastern Baghdad

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:40:17 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:6529945

    BAGHDAD, Feb 15 (MENA) - Five Iraqi civilians were killed while 20 others injured in a car bomb blast that hit al Habibiya district in eastern Baghdad, said the spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command. In statements Wednesday to MENA ....

  • 24 Daesh militants killed in airstrikes in western Mosul

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:38:56 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:59 - ID:6529513

    BAGHDAD, Feb 15 (MENA) – Iraqi warplanes, backed by the US-led coalition aircraft, shelled a Daesh site in al Mahlabia district in western Mosul, killing two militants, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The aerial ....

  • FM: Sisi voiced Egypt's keenness on cooperating with UN in all fields

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:36:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:58 - ID:6529501

    CAIRO, Feb 15 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi stressed Egypt's keenness on boosting cooperation with the UN in all fields, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference following Sisi's meeting with UN ....

  • Interior ministry's human rights sector inspects number of police posts in Port Said

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:27:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:6529641

    CAIRO, Feb 15 (MENA) - A committee from the Interior Ministry's human rights sector inspected police posts in Port Said security directorate. The members of the committee inspected the jails and got acquainted with the mechanism of receiving ....

  • Jordanian FM affirms Amman's support for Iraq's stability

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:24:12 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:6529517

    AMMAN, Feb 15 (MENA) - Jordan's Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs Ayman Safadi discussed with UN secretary general’s representative in Iraq Jan Kubis the importance of launching a political process in Iraq that would lead to national ....

  • Russian top diplomat says broad anti-terrorist front forming in Syria

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:08:56 GMT - Russia - World - SN:55 - ID:6529509

    MOSCOW, Feb 15 (MENA) - A broad anti-terrorist front is forming in Syria thanks to steps taken by Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the meeting with students and teachers of the Diplomatic Academy. The stake on exceptionalism ....

  • Guterres: Egypt 'key player' in Arab region

    Date: 2017-02-15 16:01:57 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:6529297

    CAIRO, Feb 15 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said Egypt has a central geopolitical position and is a "key player" in the region, noting that Cairo mainly contributes to reaching solutions to the Middle East issues and ....

  • Ashrawi slams US bias to Israel

    Date: 2017-02-15 15:47:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:6529357

    RAMALLAH, Feb 15 (MENA) - Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hanan Ashrawi has slammed the US unlimited bias towards Israel and said that the alternative to two states is an apartheid ....

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