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  • France to deliver arms to Iraqi Kurds

    France to deliver arms to Iraqi Kurds

    Date: 2014-08-13 15:11:14 GMT - France - International - SN:26 - ID:872485

    France will supply arms to Iraq's Kurds "in the coming hours", French President Francois Hollande has announced. France has received approval from authorities in Baghdad for the decision, French media reports say. Kurdish forces have been ....

  • Court sets Sept. 27 date for ruling in retrial of Mubarak, others

    Court sets Sept. 27 date for ruling in retrial of Mubarak, others

    Date: 2014-08-13 14:16:10 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:25 - ID:872381

    Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday set September 27 for issuing a ruling in the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons, former interior minister Habib el-Adli and six of his aides. The retrial has started on May 11 last year. ....

  • Mubarak denies at court all crimes against him

    Mubarak denies at court all crimes against him

    Date: 2014-08-13 14:13:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:24 - ID:872377

    Former president Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday denied before court charges leveled against him of killing protesters in January 2011. He also denied, in his argument defending himself before Cairo Criminal Court, that he committed any corruption or ....

  • Security forces on high alert over possible attacks by MB

    Security forces on high alert over possible attacks by MB

    Date: 2014-08-13 14:11:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:872374

    The commander of Special Forces has asserted that the security forces are on high alert in anticipation of any violence acts on Thursday, the first anniversary of the dispersal of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) protest camps in August ....

  • Interior Ministry raises security alert to utmost level

    Interior Ministry raises security alert to utmost level

    Date: 2014-08-13 13:36:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:22 - ID:872293

    Interior Ministry Spokesman Major General Hani Abdel Latif said that the ministry has raised security alert to the utmost level in a bid to protect the public on Thursday amid threats to intimidate citizens on the occasion marking the first ....

  • Plan set to secure new road network - traffic director

    Plan set to secure new road network - traffic director

    Date: 2014-08-13 13:02:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:872211

    Director of the General Traffic Department Major General Mostafa Darwish said on Wednesday that his department has embarked on a plan to secure the new 3,000-kilometer road network, which President Abdel Fattah El Sisi vowed to establish as part of ....

  • Street vendors to be relocated in Torgoman park within 10 days - Governor

    Street vendors to be relocated in Torgoman park within 10 days - Governor

    Date: 2014-08-13 12:52:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:872192

    Cairo Governor Galal el-Saeed said on Tuesday that street vendors would be relocated in Torgoman parking lot in downtown Cairo within 10 days. "The parking lot accommodates 1,750 peddlers who will be moved in two phases," the governor said. He ....

  • Araby receives leader of Sudanese Ummah Party

    Araby receives leader of Sudanese Ummah Party

    Date: 2014-08-13 12:42:48 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:872172

    Arab League (AL) chief Nabil El-Araby met on Wednesday with leader of the Sudanese Ummah Party Al-Sadek Al-Mahdy. The meeting took up the crises plaguing Sudan and the role of the AL on this score. In press statements after the meeting, Mahdy ....

  • Former UN chief slams HRW Rabaa report

    Former UN chief slams HRW Rabaa report

    Date: 2014-08-13 12:39:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:872165

    Former United Nations Secretary General Botros Botros Ghaly has criticized as biased the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the dispersal of the Rabaa el-Adaweya sit-in in August 2013. He added that the organization adopted the view point of ....

  • Mubarak speaks at court to defend himself

    Mubarak speaks at court to defend himself

    Date: 2014-08-13 11:18:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:17 - ID:871952

    Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday listened to a statement by former president Hosni Mubarak defending himself at court in his retrial over charges of killing protesters in January 2011 along with other charges of corruption and squandering public ....

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