Arab world

  • Service : English General
  • Category : Arab world
  • Former Libyan security official shot dead

    Date: 2014-05-28 15:25:45 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:120 - ID:748617

    TRIPOLI, May 28 (MENA) – A former Libyan security official was shot dead on Wednesday near his house in Libyan city of Derna. Essam Mohamed Abou Shiha breathed his last at the hospital. (MENA) MI/AS ....

  • 1st direct flight between Hurghada, Kuwait airports launched

    Date: 2014-05-28 15:08:26 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:113 - ID:748618

    CAIRO, May 28 (MENA) - A Kuwaiti plane is due to land Wednesday at the Egyptian airport of Hurghada for the first time, Board Chief of the Egyptian Airports Company Adel Mahgoub said. As many as 150 passengers will be on board, he ....

  • Sheikh Sabah to pay important visit to Iran: Kuwaiti official

    Date: 2014-05-28 14:37:31 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:112 - ID:748240

    KUWAIT, May 28 (MENA) - Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said that a visit of Kuwaiti Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah to Iran aims to strengthen relations between the two countries. During his meeting with ....

  • Jordan receives 443 Syrian refugees in two days

    Date: 2014-05-28 14:30:54 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:108 - ID:748239

    AMMAN, May 28 (MENA) – An official source of the Jordanian Armed Forces' General Command said on Wednesday that border guards received within the last two days 443 new Syrian refugees. The refugees represent the different age groups of children, ....

  • AL chief: Big challenges are facing NAM

    Date: 2014-05-28 14:21:50 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:104 - ID:748550

    ALGIERS, May 28 (MENA) – Arab League (AL) chief Nabil el-Arabi on Wednesday asserted that big challenges are facing the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). In his speech at the opening session of the NAM ministerial meeting here, he added that these ....

  • Libya going through war for power, says paper

    Date: 2014-05-28 14:01:45 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:97 - ID:748248

    WASHINGTON, May 28 (MENA) - In the three years since the uprising that overthrew long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's central government has failed to secure its oil ports, pipelines and fields, disrupting its primary revenue source, USA ....

  • 17th ministerial meeting of NAM opens in Algiers

    Date: 2014-05-28 13:14:55 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:83 - ID:748249

    ALGIERS, May 28 (MENA) - Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Gawad Jarif asserted the necessity of boosting the Non-Alignment Moment in the new world environment and to revitalize the principles upon which the organization was ....

  • Ambassador: Egypt seeks to push forward cultural ties with Jordan

    Date: 2014-05-28 11:03:23 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:47 - ID:747925

    AMMAN, May 28 (MENA) – Egypt's Ambassador to Jordan Khaled Tharwat said that the excellent cultural relations between Egypt and Jordan are a reflection of the bilateral political, commercial and economic ties. "We seek to push forward bilateral ....

  • 12 people killed, injured in mortar attack in Fallujah

    Date: 2014-05-28 08:48:20 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:747554

    BAGHDAD, May 28 (MENA) – Three people were killed and nine others injured when mortar shells were fired on several areas in Falloujah, Anbar province, situated some 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, a medical source with Fallujah public hospital said ....

  • Foreign Ministry: Fahmy deeply worried over increase of violence in Libya

    Date: 2014-05-28 08:23:01 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:747495

    CAIRO, May 28 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy has voiced deep concern over the heightened wave of violence and extremism in Libya. This came during Fahmy's participation in a consultative meeting on the situation in Libya held on Tuesday in ....

Middle East News Agency © - designed and developed : GCSSD