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Health min. orders intensifying inspection tours to hospitals
Date: 2014-08-07 09:56:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:46 - ID:862474
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - Health Minister Adel El Adawy has ordered the clinical medicine sector to intensify its inspection tours to hospitals within the framework of a ministry's initiative dubbed, "Towards Clean Hospitals". This comes as part of ....
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Fire controlled in Alexandria
Date: 2014-08-07 09:51:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:862473
ALEXANDRIA, Aug 7 (MENA) - Firefighters in Alexandria controlled on Thursday a minor fire, which erupted in one of Alexandria Library's floodlights. Initial investigations showed that the fire was caused by a short circuit. No casualties were ....
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Some MB members apprehended in 6 governorates
Date: 2014-08-07 09:49:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:862523
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - Security forces are continuing their pursuit of terrorist Muslim Brotherhood members who have arrest warrants issued against them for their involvement in violence and incitement to violence. Ninteen were rounded up in Beni ....
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UN evacuates staff, aid workers in South Sudan
Date: 2014-08-07 09:48:11 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:43 - ID:862460
NEW YORK, Aug 7 (MENA) - UN peacekeepers evacuated 220 staff and aid workers from northeast South Sudan after militias killed at least six relief workers, ABC news reported quoting a UN spokesman said. The troops from the UN mission in South Sudan ....
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Boko Haram Kills ‘Dozens’ in Nigeria
Date: 2014-08-07 09:46:51 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:42 - ID:862489
ABUJA, Aug 7 (MENA) - Residents from the northeastern Nigerian town of Gwoza say Boko Haram militants killed dozens of locals on Thursday, Leadership newspaper reported. “The soldiers guarding us just went away as the militants advanced against ....
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Iraqi army strike kills eight ISIL elements in Baquba
Date: 2014-08-07 09:44:55 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:862526
BAGHDAD, Aug 7 (MENA) – Eight elements of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were killed Thursday after an Iraqi air raid, a local security source said. The source added that the Iraqi air force, in coordination with Iraqi Counter ....
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Sisi inquires after health of veteran actress Faten Hamama
Date: 2014-08-07 09:43:43 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:862525
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi delegated on Thursday presidential secretary Ahmed al-Ansari to Dar El-Fouad hospital in the 6th of October to inquire after the health of veteran actress Faten Hamama. Ansari will convey ....
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Safaga port receives 1,550 passengers, 50 trucks
Date: 2014-08-07 09:41:48 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:39 - ID:862524
HURGHADA, Aug 7 (MENA) - Safaga port received on Thursday 1,550 arriving and departing passengers and 50 trucks laden with different types of goods. Some 650 passengers, mostly Egyptians working in Gulf states, arrived at the port on board ....
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USS Vella Gulf enters Black Sea — US Navy
Date: 2014-08-07 09:23:57 GMT - Russia - World - SN:38 - ID:862432
MOSCOW, Aug 7 (MENA) - The U.S. Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser Vella Gulf entered the Black Sea on Thursday, said U.S. 6th fleet, ITAR TASS reported. The crew’s aim was to ensure peace and stability in the region, the U.S. navy press ....
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Israeli diplomatic officials: No decision yet on whether to cooperate with UNHRC investigation
Date: 2014-08-07 09:23:31 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:862381
GAZA CITY, Aug 7 (MENA) - The Israeli Foreign Ministry has not yet decided whether Israel should cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council commission that is expected to be set up in the coming days to investigate alleged war crimes in ....