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  • Somalia shuts down 30 embassies in West Africa

    Date: 2014-07-28 10:01:30 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:35 - ID:848703

    MOGADISHU, July 38 (MENA) - The Somali Federal Government has announced that it will close 30 of their diplomatic missions to countries in West Africa. Mr. Abdirahman Duale Beileh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Somali Federal Government ....

  • Qalubiya health directorate receives no report on casualties -- source

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:46:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:34 - ID:848660

    BANHA, Egypt, July 28 (MENA) - The health directorate in Qalyoubia has not been informed of any deaths as a result of clashes that erupted earlier Monday between Muslim Brotherhood elements on one side and residents and police troops on the other ....

  • Libya appeals for int'l help to put out huge fire in Brega oil tankers

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:37:04 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:848623

    TRIPOLI, July 28 (MENA) - The Libyan government is appealing for "international help" to put out a huge fire that erupted in several oil tankers in Brega amid clashes over Tripoli airport. The interim government, in a statement posted on its ....

  • Defense minister orders commanders to lay wreaths on tomb of unknown soldier

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:36:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:32 - ID:848649

    CAIRO, July 28 (MENA) - Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi has delegated commanders of field armies to lay wreaths on the tomb of the unknown soldier. Sobhi made his directives on the occasion of the Lesser Bairam. (MENA) MA/MH ....

  • Huge oil tank set ablaze in Tripoli as shelling hits airport

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:23:07 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:848603

    TRIPOLI, July 28 (MENA) - A tank containing six million liters of fuel was set ablaze due to the exchange of rockets between militants on Tripoli airport road, said a statement by Libya's Oil Ministry. The ministry urged residents to take ....

  • Israeli soldier wounded in Gaza despite lull

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:20:40 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:848644

    GAZA CITY, July 28 (MENA) - An Israeli soldier was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday despite a lull in the fighting, according to a report by Israel Army Radio. According to the preliminary reports, the soldier was wounded in a ....

  • Resistance movements not to bargain on weapons -- Islamic Jihad

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:01:22 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:848493

    GAZA CITY, July 28 (MENA) - Resistance movements won't be part of any bargains on their weapons and won't give up them, the secretary general of the Islamic Jihad said Monday. In an address to the nation Monday, Ramadan Shalah paid tribute to the ....

  • Two officers, two conscripts injured during dispersal of MB rally in Khanka

    Date: 2014-07-28 09:00:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:848597

    BANHA, Egypt, July 28 (MENA) - Two police officers and two conscripts were injured on Monday during clashes that broke out between elements of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group and police troops while dispersing rallies organized by the group ....

  • One killed, 2 injured in family quarrel in Beheira

    Date: 2014-07-28 08:52:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:848568

    DAMANHOUR, Egypt, July 28 (MENA) - One person was killed and two others injured in a quarrel between two families in the town of kafr El-Dawar in Beheira, 30 Km east of Alexandria. The injured were moved to Alexandria University hospital. The ....

  • Abbas says he did not attend Paris conf. because Cairo was not invited

    Date: 2014-07-28 08:50:59 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:848489

    RIYADH, July 28 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said the reason he did not attend the Paris conference on Gaza was that Egypt had not been invited. Abbas said he insisted that Egypt be the one extending invitations to the ....

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