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Four unidentified bodies found in northern Baghdad
Date: 2014-06-16 09:22:39 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:780471
Iraqi security forces found four unidentified bodies in northern the Iraqi capital on Monday, an Iraqi police source said. The bodies, showered with bullets, were found thrown on the road at Al-Bonouk district in northern Baghdad, the source ....
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Abducted employee at Libya Commerical Bank released
Date: 2014-06-16 09:21:49 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:780403
Head of the Joint Security Chamber in Obari city said kidnappers released a Commercial Bank employee unharmed after 24 hours while he was on his way to his farm. The employee at the Commercial bank in Obari, identified as Zedan Al-Sediq Abu ....
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Interior Minister allows female prisoner to get out to attend her daughter's wedding
Date: 2014-06-16 09:09:44 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:780434
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim agreed to a petition to allow one of the female prisoners to get out to attend her daughter's wedding. The woman is currently serving a life imprisonment in Qanatar Prison over premeditated murder charges. The ....
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Positive change in US stance on Egypt -- Politics professor
Date: 2014-06-16 09:06:34 GMT - USA - Egypt - SN:26 - ID:780420
Politics professor Mona Makaram Ebeed said there is a positive change in the US stance towards Egypt after the election of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Yet, Ebeed, who is on a visit to the US, said there is till an American caution over what ....
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S. Korea to repatriate 5 N. Korean fishermen rescued at sea
Date: 2014-06-16 09:05:24 GMT - south korea - International - SN:25 - ID:780416
South Korea will send back home five North Korean fishermen who were rescued after their vessel sank in the Sea of Japan, Yonhap reported quoting the Unification Ministry. The ministry said the five men had expressed their desire to return to ....
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Colombia vote: Santos re-elected as president
Date: 2014-06-16 09:03:29 GMT - Colombia - International - SN:24 - ID:780413
Juan Manuel Santos has won re-election in Colombia's most dramatic presidential contest in years, the BBC reported Monday. Mr Santos won nearly 51% of votes and saw off his right-wing challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who had 45%. Correspondents ....
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Nour party in Qena mulls preparations for parliamentary elections
Date: 2014-06-16 09:02:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:23 - ID:780412
The executive office of the Salafi El-Nour Party held discussions on Monday in preparations for the next parliamentary elections. The party has a several-step plan to run in the polls, said Mostafa Abdo, the local secretary general. Best ....
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Park departs for Uzbekistan to forge closer ties with Central Asia
Date: 2014-06-16 09:01:20 GMT - south korea - International - SN:22 - ID:780408
South Korean President Park Geun-hye left for Uzbekistan on Monday to forge closer economic and other ties with the Central Asian nation once at the center of the trade route between Asia and Europe, Yonhap reported. The three-day state visit ....
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Pentagon intensifies U.S. diplomatic security in Baghdad
Date: 2014-06-16 08:58:44 GMT - USA - International - SN:21 - ID:780404
The US military is providing intensified security for US diplomatic facilities in Baghdad, the Pentagon said on Sunday. "A small number of (Defense Department) personnel are augmenting State Department security assets in Baghdad to help ensure ....
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Israel raids Gaza Strip
Date: 2014-06-16 08:53:51 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:780394
Israeli warplanes launched air raids over different parts of Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding two Palestinians, Palestinian sources said. The warplanes raided a national security outpost in Zaitoun district in Gaza, wounding two children. The ....