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  • Pope: Bonds between Al Azhar and Church are strong

    Pope: Bonds between Al Azhar and Church are strong

    Date: 2017-12-27 10:26:12 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:10 - ID:7161483

    Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese on Wednesday said that feasts offer an opportunity for showing amity and reflecting the feelings of love and goodness to the whole world. The remark was made while receiving Grand ....

  • Sisi endorses law to regulate use of UAVs

    Sisi endorses law to regulate use of UAVs

    Date: 2017-12-27 10:25:54 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:9 - ID:7161458

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Wednesday endorsed a law to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Only the Defense Ministry is authorized to enforce articles of the law. Under the law, persons who import, manufacture, assemble, ....

  • AP rejects Israeli candidacy to UNSC seat

    AP rejects Israeli candidacy to UNSC seat

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:57:12 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7161335

    The Palestine committee at the Arab Parliament (AP) drew up a plan for the parliament's action to stand up to Israel's candidacy to a non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council for 2019-2020. This stance was announced at a ....

  • Planning min. says briefed MPs on measures taken to achieve administrative reforms

    Planning min. says briefed MPs on measures taken to achieve administrative reforms

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:14:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:7 - ID:7161101

    Planning Minister Hala el Saeed said on Tuesday that she briefed the Egyptian MPs on measures taken in the field of administrative reform in Egypt. Speaking to MENA, Saeed expected such measures to have a positive impact on efforts on corruption ....

  • Sisi endorses amended to military retirement law

    Sisi endorses amended to military retirement law

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:11:31 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:6 - ID:7161309

    President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Wednesday endorsed an amendment to some articles of the military retirement, insurance and pension law. Article one of the law has been amended setting the age of retirement for lieutenant generals at 64. ....

  • SOHR: 22 killed in shelling on Syria's Idlib

    SOHR: 22 killed in shelling on Syria's Idlib

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:11:23 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7161247

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has said the number of people killed in Syrian regime shelling of southern Reef Idlib (Idlib countryside) rose to 22. The London-based observatory, according al Hurra news channel, added the ....

  • 2 Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk blast

    2 Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk blast

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:11:14 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:7161202

    Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and an officer injured in a blast in Kirkuk. A security source told local media that an explosive charge went off while an army patrol was passing on a local road in southern Kirkuk, leaving two soldiers dead and an ....

  • Iran will never stop boosting defense power: Defense minister

    Iran will never stop boosting defense power: Defense minister

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:11:04 GMT - Iran - International - SN:3 - ID:7161187

    Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the Islamic Republic will boost its military prowess with full strength and without any halt, Press TV reported. Speaking in a meeting with a number of Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday, ....

  • Red Cross says medical evacuations of Syria's Eastern Ghouta begin

    Red Cross says medical evacuations of Syria's Eastern Ghouta begin

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:10:54 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7161142

    Medical evacuations have begun in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, the Red Cross, quoted by the BBC, said. In a tweet, it said that "critical" patients were being moved from the Eastern Ghouta area to the capital. Last week, ....

  • Civil aviation min., Djiboutian amb. discuss running airline between Cairo, Djibouti

    Civil aviation min., Djiboutian amb. discuss running airline between Cairo, Djibouti

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:10:45 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:7161131

    Minister of Civil Aviation Sherif Fathi discussed with Djiboutian Ambassador in Cairo Mohamed Douhour Hersi, Chairman of Air Djibouti Abdel Rahman Ali and their accompanying delegation ways of cooperation between Egypt and Djibouti in the field of ....

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