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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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

  • 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 ....

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