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  • Kuawait ups its support for African states to 2 bilion dollars

    Date: 2013-11-20 09:16:11 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:396920

    KUWAIT CITY, Nov 20 (MENA) – Kuwait decided upping its financial support for African states to 2 billion dollars, said Kuwaiti Health Minister Mohamed Abdullah al-Mubarak al-Sabah. One billion dollars will go in soft loans to development ....

  • Cameron becomes first British PM to phone Iranian president in 10 years

    Date: 2013-11-20 09:10:22 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:34 - ID:396882

    LONDON, Nov 20 (MENA) - David Cameron has become the first British Prime Minister to call an Iranian president in more than a decade, the BBC reported. Cameron spoke to Hassan Rouhani by telephone on Tuesday afternoon where they discussed ....

  • Edko lake cleansing operation to start immediately

    Date: 2013-11-20 09:09:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:33 - ID:396919

    CAIRO, Nov 20 (MENA) – Officials from the Suez Canal and Arab Contractors Company will inspect Thursday Edko Lake in Beheira governorate to prepare a report on needed work for cleansing it from all pollutants and deepening it to increase its fish ....

  • Norway denies US spying, says It shared intelligence

    Date: 2013-11-20 09:00:02 GMT - Norway - World - SN:32 - ID:396883

    OSLO, Nov 20 (MENA) - Norway's intelligence services said it - and not the U.S. National Security Agency, as reported in a Norwegian newspaper - kept records on more than 33 million phone conversations over the space of one month last winter, the ....

  • Egypt's interim president urges citizens to vote in referendum on Constitution

    Date: 2013-11-20 08:59:49 GMT - Kuwait - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:396846

    KUWAIT CITY, Nov 20 (MENA) - Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour urged on Wednesday all Egyptians to vote in the referendum on the new Constitution, saying this new Constitution is one the fruits of June 30 Revolution. Speaking to the ....

  • Iraqi president protection official assassinated in Sulimaniya

    Date: 2013-11-20 08:58:33 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:396921

    BAGHDAD, Nov 20 (MENA) - The official in charge of the protection of Iraqi President Jalal Talbani was killed in an armed attack targeting his house in Sulimaniya governorate in the Iraqi Region of Kurdistan, a security source said Wednesday. The ....

  • Beblawy condemns terror attack on soldiers' bus in Arish

    Date: 2013-11-20 08:57:47 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:29 - ID:396918

    CAIRO, Nov 20 (MENA) – Prime Minister Hazem Beblawy condemned Wednesday the terrorist attack that targeted soldiers' bus in Arish. He stressed that the government is mulling all options for dealing with successive terror incidents and curbing ....

  • 40 persons killed, injured in series of blasts in Baghdad

    Date: 2013-11-20 08:45:14 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:396809

    BAGHDAD, Nov 20 (MENA) - At least 40 persons were killed and injured in an initial toll from four car bombs and explosive charge blasts that took place in different areas in Baghdad, Iraqi security sources said. The source said a roadside car ....

  • Attack on soldiers bus in Arish carried out by car bomb, says military source

    Date: 2013-11-20 08:33:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:396847

    CAIRO, Nov 20 (MENA) - The terror attack that targeted a soldiers' bus, while they were on a leave early Wednesday in Al-Salaa area between Rafah and Arish, was carried out by a booby-trapped car, a military source said. The source offered ....

  • Man arrested over bottling water not fit for human consumption

    Date: 2013-11-20 08:31:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:396811

    TANTA, Egypt, Nov 20 (MENA) – A 37-year-old man was arrested in Gharbia governorate over establishing an unlicensed station for refining and selling bottled water which is not fit for human consumption. The man sticks labels similar to licensed ....

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