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CST condemns Qatar's statements, vows litigation
Date: 2014-01-05 12:56:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:65 - ID:480431
CAIRO, Jan 5 (MENA) - Egypt's Coalition to Support Tourism (CST) denounced on Sunday the statements of Qatar about Egypt and what it called "Qatar's desperate attempts in destabilizing the situation in Egypt." "Qatar's statements extremely ....
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Activist receives one year imprisonment sentence in Shafiq case
Date: 2014-01-05 12:52:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:64 - ID:480508
CAIRO, Jan 5 (MENA) - Activist Alla Abdel-Fatah has received a suspended one-year imprisonment sentence in the case of putting to fire the headquarters of former presidential candidate Ahmad Shafiq. Also, his ten other co-defendants received the ....
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Pope Francis to visit Holy Land in May
Date: 2014-01-05 12:50:15 GMT - Vatican - World - SN:63 - ID:480430
THE VATICAN, Jan 5 (MENA) - Pope Francis has announced his first trip as pontiff to the Holy Land, from 24 May to 26 May, the BBC reported on Sunday. He will visit Jerusalem, Bethlehem in the West Bank, and the Jordanian capital, Amman. He ....
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Fahmy says his Algeria visit not related to Egypt internal situation
Date: 2014-01-05 12:48:27 GMT - Algeria - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:480507
ALGIERS, Jan 5 (MENA) - Egypt's Foreign Ministry Nabil Fahmy affirmed that his current visit to Algeria is not related to the internal situation in Egypt. Fahmy stressed that there are no ties between his current visit to Algeria and the ....
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Qatar's statement "blatant" interference in Egypt's affairs - Arab parliaments
Date: 2014-01-05 12:41:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:480341
CAIRO, Jan 5 (MENA) - The Organization of Arab People and Parliaments, under Abdel-Aziz Abdullah, has strongly condemned a statement issued by the Qatari Foreign Ministry, which criticized a crackdown by Egyptian security forces on Islamist ....
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Pope Francis to visit Jordan, Quds in May
Date: 2014-01-05 12:17:36 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:60 - ID:480432
AMMAN, Jan 5 (MENA) - Pope of the Vatican Francis will visit Amman on May 24 upon an official invitation from King Abdullah II of Jordan, the Royal court said in a statement today. During the visit, the pope will hold talks with the King of ....
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Power vacuum in Middle East lifts militants
Date: 2014-01-05 12:16:48 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:480446
NEW YORK, Jan 5 (MENA) –The images of recent days have an eerie familiarity, as if the horrors of the past decade were being played back, The New York Times wrote in its description of the situation in the Middle East right now, citing the masked ....
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AU welcomes talks between conflicting parties in S.Sudan
Date: 2014-01-05 12:09:27 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:58 - ID:480373
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 4 (MENA) - Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma welcomed Sunday the beginning of talks between the parties to the conflict in South Sudan as advocated for by its Peace and Security Council (PSC) on 30 ....
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Netanyahu raises doubts on PA's readiness for making peace
Date: 2014-01-05 12:07:26 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:480364
GAZA CITY, Jan 5 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian Authority of continuing its incitment against Israel, Voice of Israel Radio reported on Sunday. In his remarks, Netanyahu accused Palestinian leaders of ....
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Peres: Arabs know Israel is not the problem anymore
Date: 2014-01-05 12:05:21 GMT - Israel - World - SN:56 - ID:480437
GAZA CITY, Jan 5 (MENA) - Israeli President Shimon Peres said in a Foreign Ministry representatives meeting that "when we were being established, the Arab world wanted to annihilate us. Today the Arab world doesn't think that we're its ....