Somalia’s al Shabaab says carried out car bomb attack in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents said on Wednesday its members were behind a car bomb explosion in the Somali capital targeting government officials from the United Arab Emirates that killed...
View ArticleEgypt to host 3rd session of Arab European business summit in November
CAIRO: Egypt will host the third session of the Arab European business summit in November 2015, after the general union of Arab Business Chambers approved, Youm7 reported Wednesday. This comes after...
View ArticleState Commissioners recommends dual citizens banned from owning Sinai lands
CAIRO: The State Commissioners department of the State Council recommended to the Administrative Court that it bans dual citizens from owning lands in the Sinai Peninsula, Youm7 reported Tuesday....
View ArticleIsrael says it hits Gaza launch pad after rocket fired
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military carried out an airstrike on a rocket launching device in the Gaza Strip Wednesday after it was used by militants to fire on Israel. The airstrike hit an open area in...
View ArticleICRC delivers 1,000 tonnes of food to Yemen
GENEVA: An International Committee of the Red Cross ship has delivered 1,000 tonnes of emergency food aid — enough to feed 140,000 people for 30-40 days — toYemen’s Hodeidah port, along with three...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia, France sign billions in ship, plane deals
PARIS: Saudi Arabia signed agreements worth billions of dollars on Wednesday to buy helicopters, Airbus jets and two possible nuclear reactors from France. The signing in Paris comes as Saudi Arabia is...
View ArticleAs factions fight, Yemenis suffer hunger, disease, fear
SANAA: Eight-year-old Abdullah Ali lay screaming in pain in a Sanaa hospital on Wednesday as a doctor cleaned his torn face, the victim of a worsening war that threatens millions of Yemenis with...
View ArticleLouisiana’s Jindal joins crowded 2016 presidential race
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal joined the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Wednesday, starting dead last among a very crowded field of hopeful Republican candidates in at least one poll. “I am tanned,...
View ArticleSyrian state TV says Kobani attackers entered from Turkey
BEIRUT: Syrian state television said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters who carried out a deadly assault on the predominantly Kurdish border town of Kobani had entered Syria from Turkey. The...
View ArticleEgypt to raise 7B EGP in T-bills Thursday
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on behalf of the Ministry of Finance is scheduled to auction 7 billion EGP ($918.14 million) in treasury bills Thursday, according to the bank’s official website....
View ArticleTurkey denies Islamic State attacked Syria’s Kobani from Turkish territory
DIYARBAKIR: Islamic State militants who staged a deadly attack on Syria’s Kobani overnight did not enter the town from Turkey, the governor’s office in the Turkish province of Sanliurfa said on...
View ArticleT.V. presenter al-Beheiry, channel owner acquitted of blasphemy charges
CAIRO: T.V. anchor Islam al-Beheiry and owner of Al Kahera Wal Nas channel Treq Nour were acquitted of blasphemy Wednesday by the 6 October Misdemeanor Court, Youm7 reported. According to the lawsuit...
View ArticleTwo Egyptians arrested in Delta for joining Syrian Free Army
CAIRO:Two Egyptians were arrested in Delta’s governorate of Gharbia for allegedly joining the Syrian Free Army (SFA), security source told Youm7 Wednesday. The defendants were arrested upon returning...
View ArticleVideo:Thanawya Amma [high school] final exams continue
Video:Thanawya Amma [high school] final exams continue.
View ArticleBusiness tycoon Hussein Salem pays government back, embezzlement charge dropped
CAIRO: Egyptian-Spanish fugitive business tycoon Hussein Salem has reached a final agreement with the Egyptian government in a profiteering case, Youm7 reported Salem reached a deal to pay a part of...
View ArticleIslamic State kills 20 civilians south of Kobani – monitor
BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters killed at least 20 Kurdish civilians and wounded at least 15 more people in an attack on a village south of the Syrian town of Kobani, a group monitoring the war said on...
View ArticleItaly deports 28 Egyptian for illegal immigration
CAIRO: The Italian authorities have deported 28 Egyptian illegal migrants who were arrested last week on board of a fishing boat off the coast of Italy, DPA reported Thursday. Accompanied by 32...
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