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Clashes in Kiev as Ukraine moves to dismantle protest camp
Date: 2014-08-07 10:08:54 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:49 - ID:862601
KIEV, Aug 7 (MENA) - Tensions flared on Thursday on Kiev's Independence Square, the scene of street protests that toppled a Moscow-backed president in February, when protesters still camped there clashed with city workers who tried to clear away ....
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MB Supreme Guide, 13 others get death sentence over Istiqamah mosque clashes
Date: 2014-08-07 10:07:56 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:862551
CAIRO, Aug 7 (MENA) - Giza Criminal Court has confirmed death sentence for terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group Supreme Guide Mohamad Badie and 13 others over violence, murder, incitement, terror and sabotage. The incidents took place close to ....
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Egypt provides technical aid to Burundian TV
Date: 2014-08-07 10:00:49 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:47 - ID:862576
BUJUMBURA, Aug 7 (MENA) – The Egyptian embassy to Burundi handed over technical aid worth $150,000 from Egypt to the Burundian state TV. The ceremony was attended by the Burundian information minister and officials and Egyptian embassy ....
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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 ....