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  • EU commissioner, Bulgarian PM discuss Syria crisis

    Date: 2013-10-31 22:11:00 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:162 - ID:364924

    SOFIA, Oct 31 (MENA) - EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva held talks with Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Syria, Sofia news agency reported. Georgieva expressed her concern over ....

  • Tourism minister witnesses launch of cultural events in Manama

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:48:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:161 - ID:364915

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) – Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou witnessed a raft of cultural and tourism events that kicked off on Thursday at the theater of Cultural Hall in the Bahraini capital of Manama. The events are organized by Egypt's tourism ....

  • Acivist group says more than 120,000 people killed since civil war started in Syria

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:44:58 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:160 - ID:364916

    DAMASCUS, Oct 31 (MENA) - The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday that 120,296 people have been killed since the civil war began in Syria. Of those killed it said 61,067 are civilians, including 6,365 children, the ....

  • Severe clashes erupt between pro-Morsi protesters, residents in Damanhur

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:40:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:159 - ID:364917

    DAMANHUR, Egypt, Oct 31 (MENA) – Severe clashes erupted between supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and residents of Damanhur city in Beheira governorate on Thursday. Earlier, residents of the city prevented pro-Morsi protesters from ....

  • Top prosecutor remand 14 supects in custody over riots in Azhar university

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:20:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:158 - ID:364850

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) – Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered Thursday fourteen suspects to be remanded in custody for 15 days over involvement in attacks on Al Azhar University. Students supporting the Muslim Brotherhood blocked the ....

  • Egyptian official meets foreign ambassadors on technical cooperation

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:13:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:157 - ID:364812

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with the Commonwealth, Ambassador Mohamed Khayrat, held a meeting Thursday with ambassadors of Afghanistan, Armenia, Magnolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and ....

  • 5 killed, injured in blast in Baghdad

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:02:35 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:156 - ID:364873

    BAGHDAD, Oct 31 (MENA) – A civilian was killed and four others injured in an explosion in Nahrawan area of southeastern Baghdad, an Iraqi security source said on Thursday. Security troops cordoned off the area while ambulances moved wounded to ....

  • Foreign Ministry spokesman meets with foreign correspondents on latest developments

    Date: 2013-10-31 21:00:23 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:155 - ID:364832

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) - Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Aati met on Thursday with correspondents of a number of foreign news agencies, newspapers and media networks like Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Xinhua, Kyodo, Wall ....

  • Pro-Morsi protesters stage march southern Cairo

    Date: 2013-10-31 20:15:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:154 - ID:364768

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) – Hundreds of supporters of Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday staged a march that roamed the streets of Hadayek El Maadi neighborhood southern Cairo. The protesters chanted slogans supporting deposed president Mohamed Morsi and ....

  • Israeli planes strike Syrian military base, US official says

    Date: 2013-10-31 20:09:35 GMT - USA - World - SN:153 - ID:364859

    WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia on Thursday, an Obama administration official told CNN. An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the ....

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