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  • MENA e-screen service covers updates about New Suez Canal

    MENA e-screen service covers updates about New Suez Canal

    Date: 2014-08-18 09:17:35 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:879223

    The Middle East News Agency (MENA) is launching a new e-screen service to cover updates about the New Suez Canal project. The screen installed on the front of MENA HQ will also provide important news around the clock for passers by, said board ....

  • New Suez Canal certificates available for individuals, institutions -- Minister

    New Suez Canal certificates available for individuals, institutions -- Minister

    Date: 2014-08-18 09:15:50 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:20 - ID:879165

    The five-year investment vehicles for the New Suez Canal will be up for grabs by individuals and institutions alike, the planning minister has said. The investment certificates, to be offered by Misr Banque, Banque Du Caire and the National Bank ....

  • Iran urges cooperation for aid to crisis-hit people in region

    Iran urges cooperation for aid to crisis-hit people in region

    Date: 2014-08-18 09:13:53 GMT - Iran - International - SN:27 - ID:879214

    Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has emphasized the necessity of synergy among countries in the Middle East to help those affected by violence and extremism across the region, Press TV reported Monday. Zarif made the remarks in a ....

  • Cairo hosts Gaza reconstruction conf. after reaching permanent ceasefire

    Cairo hosts Gaza reconstruction conf. after reaching permanent ceasefire

    Date: 2014-08-18 09:10:19 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:879207

    The Egyptian and Norwegian governments have decided that Cairo will be the venue of a conference on Gaza reconstruction as part of the continuous support for the Palestinian issue. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas backed the decision. A ....

  • Pope Francis calls for forgiveness, unity on Korean Peninsula

    Pope Francis calls for forgiveness, unity on Korean Peninsula

    Date: 2014-08-18 09:03:17 GMT - south korea - International - SN:24 - ID:879191

    Pope Francis called on the divided Koreas Monday to unite in the spirit of mutual forgiveness, saying they are "members of one family, one people," Yonhap reported. "All Koreans are brothers and sisters, members of one family, one people," the ....

  • Suez tribe participates in securing electricity towers

    Suez tribe participates in securing electricity towers

    Date: 2014-08-18 09:01:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:879183

    Members of a Suez tribe participate in securing electricity towers, said tribe leader Sheikh Mohamed Khodeir. The tribe secures the towers in el-Ain el-Sokhna in coordination with the Electricity Ministry and police forces, he said in statements ....

  • Beltone to run 1st investment fund in Egypt with capital worth LE 100 mn

    Beltone to run 1st investment fund in Egypt with capital worth LE 100 mn

    Date: 2014-08-18 08:58:37 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:22 - ID:879179

    Beltone Mena Equity Fund (BMENAEA) has been chosen to run the first investment fund for deposits, liquidity and treasury bills to Misr Insurance Company after the Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority approved for such companies to establish ....

  • Prime defendant in 2012 murder of Aswan police officer arrested

    Prime defendant in 2012 murder of Aswan police officer arrested

    Date: 2014-08-18 08:55:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:879172

    Security bodies arrested the main defendant in the murder of a police officer in Aswan in 2012. Mahmoud Goma Abdel Ghani, a habitual criminal, was arrested in a Kom Ombo village with a machine gun in possession. Captain Mohammed Rafat was ....

  • Obama informs Congress of airstrikes

    Obama informs Congress of airstrikes

    Date: 2014-08-18 08:49:57 GMT - USA - International - SN:18 - ID:879143

    US President Barack Obama has formally notified Congress that he had authorized "limited" airstrikes in Iraq to help security forces, which retook the country's largest dam earlier from militants, The Washington Post newspaper reported. National ....

  • Unidentified warplanes target military posts in Tripoli

    Unidentified warplanes target military posts in Tripoli

    Date: 2014-08-18 08:48:39 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:879150

    Unidentified warplanes targeted at dawn Monday military positions in Tripoli where militants have been fighting for over a month, Libya sources said. The sources, told "Al-Wasat" website that five explosions were heard as a result of the ....

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