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Kosovo Premier Thaci Declares Victory After Election Win
Date: 2014-06-09 09:22:56 GMT - Kosovo - International - SN:26 - ID:768714
Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci’s political party won the second parliamentary elections since independence from Serbia with a promise to improve living standards in one of Europe’s poorest states, the BBC reported. Thaci’s Democratic Party ....
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Russian TV journalists released in Ukraine
Date: 2014-06-09 09:08:46 GMT - Russia - International - SN:25 - ID:768689
Russian journalists of the Zvezda (or "Star") television network, who were detained in Ukraine on June 6, have been released, the Russia-24 TV channel reported early Monday. The Zvezda TV network later confirmed the release of its reporters in ....
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Suicide bombers attack parking lot at police base in eastern Afghanistan
Date: 2014-06-09 08:51:31 GMT - Afghanistan - International - SN:23 - ID:768648
Suicide bombers have attacked a parking lot at a police base in eastern Afghanistan, killing a guard and setting 25 trucks ablaze, Fox News reported. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the spokesman for the provincial governor of Nangarhar province, said the ....
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Israeli forces made limited incursion into eastern Gaza
Date: 2014-06-09 08:50:07 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:768645
Israeli forces made a limited incursion into the eastern Gaza Strip on Monday amid intensive gunfire at Palestinian houses, local sources said. Four Israeli bulldozers, backed by military vehicles, pushed 150 meters deep into cultivated lands but ....
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PM heads to presidency to tender resignation
Date: 2014-06-09 08:47:15 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:768640
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab headed to the presidency on Monday to tender the cabinet's resignation to the new president. Mahlab held earlier today his last cabinet meeting. The government resignation was expected to be tendered to new ....
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Nour party: Sisi's speech balanced, domonstarted people's aspirations
Date: 2014-06-09 08:46:09 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:20 - ID:768634
Secretary General of the ultra-conservative Nour Party Galal al-Mara said President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's speech was balanced and demonstrated people's aspirations in the economic, political and foreign domains. Mara, speaking after his ....
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Cabinet holds last meeting before resignation
Date: 2014-06-09 08:10:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:11 - ID:768460
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab held his last cabinet meeting on Monday before resignation. Mahlab said that the cabinet will tender its resignation to new President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who was sworn in on Sunday to give him a free hand to select ....
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Putin congratulates Sisi for being sworn in
Date: 2014-06-09 07:55:08 GMT - Russia - International - SN:19 - ID:768544
Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for being sworn in as Egypt's new president for the coming four years, according to a statement by the Kremlin media office. Putin said Sisi's landslide victory is ....
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67 killed in Syria Sunday - opposition
Date: 2014-06-09 07:45:30 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:768506
As many as 67 people were killed in separate places in Syria on Sunday. Regime forces shelled Qaboun district, north-east of Damascus, said Sky News. Fierce clashes also occurred between the regime army and opposition fighters in other ....
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Sisi inauguration opens new chapter in Egypt's history - Swedish diplomat
Date: 2014-06-09 07:44:50 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:18 - ID:768528
Swedish Ambassador here Charlotta Sparre stressed that the inauguration of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as the country's president for the coming 4 years opens a new chapter in Egypt's history. Egypt will witness more economic, political and ....