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Aide of Asim Abdul Majid arrested in Minya
Date: 2014-02-08 07:38:22 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:543172
Police arrested an aide of Asim Abdul Majid of Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya in Minya, south of Cairo. The man, identified by a security source as Ahmed Abdel-Motemed Abdel-Hafiz, is wanted for serving a life sentence. He was captured in a raid on a ....
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Ninth MP quits over Turkish graft scandal
Date: 2014-02-08 07:33:51 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:9 - ID:543163
A Turkish Parliament Member from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party quit on Friday in protest at his handling of a major corruption probe, the ninth such departure since the scandal broke in December, local Turkish media reported. ....
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Tamarod renews support for Sisi for presidency
Date: 2014-02-08 07:32:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:8 - ID:543157
Tamarod movement renewed on Friday support for Army chief Abdel-Fattah Sisi to run for president. This came at a meeting of the group's leaders in Shebin Qanatar, the hometown of the movement's founder Mahmoud Badr. They called on Sisi to pick ....
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Hijacking of Turkish aircraft to Sochi foiled
Date: 2014-02-08 07:30:13 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:7 - ID:543153
A passenger aboard a commercial airline flight from Ukraine to Turkey tried to hijack it to Sochi, Russia, on Friday after the Winter Olympics had started, but the plane landed safely in Istanbul and the hijacker - apparently deluded by the crew ....
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Mass hunger strike under way in Georgian prison
Date: 2014-02-08 07:26:17 GMT - Georgia - International - SN:6 - ID:543145
Some 1,000 inmates in a penitentiary in Georgia's western Imereti Province have launched a hunger strike, protesting what they call abusive prison conditions, The Voice of Russia reported Wednesday. Georgia's minister of correctional ....
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Irrigation ministry continues removing encroachments on Ismailia Canal
Date: 2014-02-08 07:23:05 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:5 - ID:543139
Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Motaleb said that a campaign has been launched to remove all encroachments on Ismailia Canal. In a statement on Friday, the minister said ten violations, including the establishment of cement ....
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Joe Biden: No reason not to run for president in 2016
Date: 2014-02-08 07:21:01 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:543135
US Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that he cannot think of a reason to not run for president in 2016, but one way or another, he will decide by summer 2015 whether to wage another campaign for the White House. “There may be reasons I don’t ....
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Libyan security personnel assassinated in Benghazi
Date: 2014-02-08 07:18:34 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:543127
A Libyan policeman of the former External Security Office was assassinated in Benghazi on Friday. Unidentified gunmen opened fire at the personnel, identified as Atef Al Medawly outsidet Ansar Mosque in Al Hadaaq area in Benghazi, killing him on ....
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Calm prevails in Gharbia -- police
Date: 2014-02-07 18:48:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:31 - ID:542840
Gharbia did not witness any Muslim Brotherhood protests on Friday, security chief Osama Bedir told MENA. Earlier, all security measures were taken to secure all public and vital facilities and squares in the governorate, he said. Security ....
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Hospitals in Gharbiya on high alert after suspected H1N1 case died
Date: 2014-02-07 17:59:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:30 - ID:542768
All hospitals in the Nile Delta governorate of Gharbiya have been put on highest alert following the death of the first suspected H1N1 case in Tanta, said assistant health minister in Gharbiya Mohamed Sharshar. The deceased is identified as ....
