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  • 2 soldiers killed in Iraq

    Date: 2013-11-25 18:01:33 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:155 - ID:406589

    BAGHDAD, Nov 25 (MENA) – Two soldiers were killed when unknown armed men opened fire at a military checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, said a well-placed source on Monday. Security forces cordoned off the area and opened an investigation ....

  • Hague to Israel: Do not undermine Iranian nuclear deal

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:57:10 GMT - palestine - World - SN:154 - ID:406653

    LONDON, Nov 25 (MENA) - Israel should avoid taking any action that would undermine the interim nuclear agreement reached between Iran and world powers, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. "We would discourage anybody in the ....

  • Egypt to benefit from German experience in education: Minister

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:53:24 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:153 - ID:406441

    CAIRO, Nov 25 (MENA) – Education Minister Mahmoud Abul Nasr said Egypt would benefit from Germany in developing education as part of other partners who would be presented within the new strategic plan of education in mid December. During his ....

  • Allam chairs broadcasting panel at EFA

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:48:45 GMT - Egypt - Sports - SN:152 - ID:406550

    CAIRO, Nov 25 (MENA) – Clubs' Committee has picked up Gamal Allam, head of Egyptian Football Association, to preside over the broadcasting sub-committee. No club had the right to solely market the game, the broadcasting panel said in a statement. ....

  • Nour Party reiterates rejection to quota percentage in constitution

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:46:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:151 - ID:406530

    CAIRO, Nov 25 (MENA) - Representative of the Salafist Nour Party in the 50-member panel tasked with amending Egypt's constitution Salah Abdel-Maaboud reiterated his party’s rejection to a quota percentage in the new constitution. The party ....

  • Iraqi official survives assassination attempt

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:23:29 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:150 - ID:406139

    BAGHDAD, Nov 25 (MENA) - Nineveh Governor Ethel Nujaifi survived an assassination attempt that targeted his convoy in Mosul, about 405km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday. An improvised explosive device was placed in a street in Qusya ....

  • Brahimi says final list of participants in Geneva II conference on Syria not completed

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:22:43 GMT - Switzerland - World - SN:149 - ID:406601

    GENEVA, Nov 25 (MENA) – UN-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said on Monday that discussions are underway on the list of participants in the Geneva II Conference on Syria, slated for coming January. Brahimi made the remarks following a ....

  • Labour union denies nominating Gamal for ALO chief

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:21:53 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:148 - ID:406091

    CAIRO, Nov 25 (MENA) - The General Federation of Trade Unions denied on Monday nominating Abdul Moneam el-Gamal for the post of the Arab Labour Organization's director-general in elections scheduled for the 1st quarter of 2014. In its statement, ....

  • German minister urges US to restore trust to ties

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:20:22 GMT - Germany - World - SN:147 - ID:406520

    BERLIN, Nov 25 (MENA) - Germany's interior minister is calling for an American effort to restore trust to trans-Atlantic ties as he meets a visiting US senator following allegations of massive National Security Agency surveillance, ABC News ....

  • US-Iran thaw began with months of secret meetings – Paper 2 last Washington

    Date: 2013-11-25 17:02:53 GMT - USA - World - SN:146 - ID:406595

    The efforts to conceal the talks continued during the formal nuclear negotiations in Geneva this month when the two key US officials involved, Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns and Jake Sullivan, Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy ....

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