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  • Early results say Abdel Aziz to remain as Mauritania's president

    Early results say Abdel Aziz to remain as Mauritania's president

    Date: 2014-06-22 07:11:44 GMT - Mauritania - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:790875

    Unofficial early results concerning the Mauritanian presidential election assert that Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will remain as Mauritania's president, a Mauritanian official told MENA on Sunday. Abdel Aziz will gain more than 77% of the ....

  • MB leader to be remanded in custody for 15 days over attacking police

    MB leader to be remanded in custody for 15 days over attacking police

    Date: 2014-06-22 07:10:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:3 - ID:790874

    The Suez Public Prosecution ordered a leader of the so-called "Hasm" movement belonging to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group to be remanded in custody for 15 days over indictment in attacking police vehicles and hiring dangerous criminals to ....

  • Two Palestinians killed in Ramallah, Nablus by Israeli fire

    Two Palestinians killed in Ramallah, Nablus by Israeli fire

    Date: 2014-06-22 07:09:29 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:790851

    Two Palestinians were killed at dawn Sunday during confrontations with the Israeli forces in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Nablus. Israeli occupation forces killed on Sunday a Palestinian young man at Al-Ain camp Nablus in the northern ....

  • 8 Takfiris killed, 21 hotbeds destroyed in N. Sinai

    8 Takfiris killed, 21 hotbeds destroyed in N. Sinai

    Date: 2014-06-22 06:42:53 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:790842

    Eight Takfiris were killed while 26 others were arrested during a wide-scale security crackdown in south Sheikh Zuwayd, security sources said on Sunday. As many as 21 terrorist hotbeds, six vehicles and 20 motorbikes that were used to target ....

  • Shoukry receives phone call from UAE FM

    Shoukry receives phone call from UAE FM

    Date: 2014-06-21 19:19:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:41 - ID:790558

    Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received a phone call on Saturday from his UAE counterpart Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed, who congratulated Shoukry on assuming his new post. The two foreign ministers also discussed ways of boosting ....

  • MB leader, 182 defendants sentenced to death over Menya violence

    MB leader, 182 defendants sentenced to death over Menya violence

    Date: 2014-06-21 19:16:58 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:40 - ID:790555

    A criminal court in Menya in Upper Egypt sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badei and 182 others to death for their role in violence in Adwah township. The court acquitted 498 defendants in the case. Around 458 defendants were tried ....

  • PM chairs 1st meeting of legislative reform committee

    PM chairs 1st meeting of legislative reform committee

    Date: 2014-06-21 19:13:11 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:39 - ID:790550

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab chaired on Saturday a meeting of a newly-formed committee on legislative reforms. The meeting took on the panel's action mechanism and membership. The committee was formed under a presidential decree with the ....

  • Fugitive Jihadist arrested in Matrouh

    Fugitive Jihadist arrested in Matrouh

    Date: 2014-06-21 19:12:04 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:38 - ID:790547

    A fugitive Jihadist has been arrested in Matrouh while in a bid to flee to Libya. The man, 32, is from Mansoura in the Delta province of Deqahliya. He was sentenced to death in 2013 for joining a Jihadist group. ....

  • Explosive device goes off, another defused on Arish-Rafah highway

    Explosive device goes off, another defused on Arish-Rafah highway

    Date: 2014-06-21 19:11:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:37 - ID:790544

    An explosive device went off Saturday while another was defused on Arish-Rafah road and now casualties were reported. According to a security source, the two bombs were planted by unknown people in a bid to attack solider transportation ....

  • Counselor Gamal Nada elected State Council head

    Counselor Gamal Nada elected State Council head

    Date: 2014-06-21 18:53:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:36 - ID:790518

    The general assembly of the State Council counselors elected with an overwhelming majority Counselor Gamal Nada as head of the council on Saturday. Nada got 99.8 percent of the votes with a turnout of 92.6 percent of the members. ....

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