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  • MENA Agenda for Tuesday, November 5

    Date: 2013-11-05 05:51:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:370993

    CAIRO, Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawy decided to declare Tuesday a holiday in all governmental facilities, public and private sectors, banks and the bourse on the occasion of the onset of the new Hijri year 1435. CAIRO, Supporters of deposed ....

  • State Council denies sit-in by judges over disciplinary judiciary crisis

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:29:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:175 - ID:370935

    CAIRO, Nov 4 (MENA) – Deputy head of the State Council and head of the council's judges' club Counselor Hamdy Yassin categorically denied reports about a call for staging a sit-in at the headquarters of the club over the "disciplinary judiciary" ....

  • Prominent Egyptian surgeon dies

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:28:16 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:174 - ID:370936

    CAIRO, Nov 4 (MENA) – Well-known Egyptian surgeon Lotfy Abdel Kader died on Monday at Cairo International Airport minutes before boarding a plane which was heading for Doha. Abdel Kader, 65, is a professor of urology and andrology in Minya ....

  • United Nations condemns continued assassinations in Benghazi

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:27:14 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:173 - ID:370939

    TRIPOLI, Nov 4 (MENA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya strongly condemned the series of assassinations in Benghazi that have targeted security and military officials as well as political activists and other citizens, according to the ....

  • Calm returns to Ramsis St. after Brotherhood rally

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:25:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:172 - ID:370937

    CAIRO, Nov 4 (MENA) – A state of calm has prevailed at Ramsis Street, in downtown Cairo, after supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood group ended their protest in the area. Calm prevailed around the High Court of Justice following clashes between ....

  • Nour party disapproves gender equality article

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:05:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:171 - ID:370849

    CAIRO, Nov 4 (MENA) - Representative of the Salafist Nour Party in the 50- member panel tasked with amending Egypt's constitution Salah Abdel-Maaboud said the party disapproves the content of the 11th article of the constitution which tackles gender ....

  • 'Three killed' in Norway bus hijack

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:03:07 GMT - Norway - World - SN:170 - ID:370858

    LONDON, Nov (MENA) - Police said a man wielding a knife has hijacked a bus in western Norway and killed three passengers, the BBC reported. The suspect, said to be in his 50s and of foreign origin, has been arrested, police said. The victims ....

  • Interior minister lauds forces in charge of securing Morsi trial

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:02:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:169 - ID:370860

    CAIRO, Nov 4 (MENA) – Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim thanked on Monday all troops which took part in securing the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi which was held at the Police Academy in New Cairo. In statements, a security source said ....

  • 3 terrorists killed, soldier injured in security campaign in N. Sinai

    Date: 2013-11-04 22:01:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:168 - ID:370850

    RAFAH, Egypt, Nov 4 (MEN) – Three terrorists were killed and a soldier was injured during a wide-scale security operation in southern areas of Sheikh Zuwaid and Rafah in North Sinai. Security troops fired at terrorists who attacked the campaign, ....

  • Hagel: Netanyahu threats, economic sanctions pushed Iran to negotiating table

    Date: 2013-11-04 21:59:17 GMT - Israel - World - SN:167 - ID:370925

    GAZA CITY, Nov 4 (MENA) - US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's threats to strike Iran's nuclear sites – coupled with pressure from economic sanctions – pushed the Islamic Republic to ....

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