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Hospitals obliged to receive emergency patients and provide free treatment for 48hrs
Date: 2014-08-06 11:29:33 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:861171
Health Minister Adel Adawi has obliged hospitals to receive all emergency patients and offer free treatment for them for a maximum of 48 hours. Adawi made the decision following directives by the prime minister to that effect. He outlined ....
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Rouhani: Iran standing beside Gaza
Date: 2014-08-06 11:28:40 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:861169
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani strongly condemned the recent Israeli brutal attacks against the oppressed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and renewed Iran's support for the oppressed people of the region, especially Gazans, the Fars News Agency ....
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Pope Tawadros greets Azhar grand imam on Eid
Date: 2014-08-06 09:58:37 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:860958
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, who was out of the country for two weeks for treatment, visited Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Ahmed el-Tayyeb on Wednesday to greet him over Eidual Fitr. Al Azhar and the Church are Egypt's safety valves and lungs and ....
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Deputy British PM: Suspend arms exports to Israel
Date: 2014-08-06 09:41:17 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:8 - ID:860905
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, on Tuesday called for arms exports to Israel to be suspended, the BBC reported. Clegg’s call came after Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a British minister who was the first Muslim woman to sit in the Cabinet, ....
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EgyptAir continues flights to bring home stranded Egyptians in Tunisia
Date: 2014-08-06 08:47:39 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:860792
Three EgyptAir flights took off on Wednesday for Qabes airport in Tunisia to bring home Egyptians fleeing unrest in Libya, said Civil Aviation Minister Captain Hossam Kamal. Seven other flights will be operated to Tunisia all through the day for ....
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Mahlab welcomes WB natural gas project funding
Date: 2014-08-06 08:46:30 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:860788
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab welcomed the World Bank's approval of a 500-million-dollar loan to fund a giant project to extend natural gas to houses. Egypt will be given an eight-year grace period and the loan will be paid back over 28 ....
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Sadat says attack on Almain checkpoint not to break Egyptians' will to counter terrorism
Date: 2014-08-06 08:45:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:860786
Head of the Sadat Democratic Party Effat Sadat said Wednesday that the terrorist attack on a police checkpoint in Alamain will not break Egyptians' will to face black terrorism. The unity of the Egyptian people and their insistence to implement ....
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Kerry urges Palestinians, Israelis to benefit from Gaza truce
Date: 2014-08-06 08:45:05 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:860784
US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Israel and the Palestinians to take advantage of the Gaza truce to move towards broader negotiations. Kerry, in statements to the BBC, said the situation could concentrate minds on the need to negotiate ....
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Saudi Arabia backs Lebanon by one billion dollars
Date: 2014-08-06 07:18:50 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:860635
Saudi Arabia offered one billion dollars to help the Lebanese army preserve security and stability and confront militants. At a press conference at King Abdullah ben Abdel Aziz of Saudi Arabia in Jeddah on Tuesday, former Lebanese Prime Minister ....
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Obama: Next Global Entrepreneurship Summit to take place in Marrakech
Date: 2014-08-06 06:57:01 GMT - Morocco - International - SN:2 - ID:860583
US President Barack Obama announced that the upcoming yearly Global entrepreneurship Summit will be held on November 20-21 in Marrakech. This is the first time an African country hosts the event, The announcement was made during the US-Africa ....