UNWRA called Egypt and the Arab League to exert pressure on Israel
CAIRO - The General Commissioner of UNRWA, Filippo Grandi, called on Monday on Egypt and the Arab League to continue to exert pressure on Israel to permit entry to Ghaza of materials needed for reconstruction....
Human rights: UN examine the situation in 16 countries
GENEVA - The Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations opened a session Monday morning to review the situation in sixteen countries including a debate on Iran, February 15th...
Yemen: Ten soldiers killed in clashes with Shiite rebels
SANAA - Ten soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in clashes between the army and the Shiite Zaidi rebels in northern Yemen, said on Monday a military source....
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood leaders arrested
CAIRO - Thirteen members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition force in Egypt, including the number two of the movement were arrested by Egyptian authorities on Monday at dawn, said the website of the Islamic brotherhood....
Israeli police operation in a Palestinian camp in East Jerusalem
The Israeli security forces have proceeded Monday to the arrest of 11 Palestinians in the refugee camp of Shufat in East Jerusalem as part of a major police operation, said a spokesman for the police....
Offensive in Afghanistan: the British should expect losses
LONDON - The British government warned Sunday that the country could expect losses among its forces serving in Afghanistan, while a major military offensive should be launched in the coming days in the south....
Housing: loans of 700 and 400 million dinars
Algiers- The government has set the terms and conditions for granting loans, to officials, by the public treasury, for the acquisition or extension of a dwelling. ...-
Health sector strike : unions call for a rally outside Ministry of Health
ALGIERS- The National Union of Public Health Specialists (SNPSSP) and the National Union of Public Health Practitioners (SNPSP) on Saturday here have called for a rally Wednesday in the capital Algiers outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, under their strike started last November. -
Algeria’s Parliament intends to legislate against colonialism
ALGIERS - Algeria's parliament plans to adopt a law criminalizing the French colonialism (1830-1962), said Sunday a member of the National Liberation Front (FLN). -
H1N1 influenza: Algeria negociates the cancelling of 15 million doses of vaccine
ALGIERS - Algeria has started negotiations with the British laboratory GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce from 20 to five million doses of the order of vaccines against H1N1 influenza, said Sunday an official of the Ministry of Health. -
General Metidji passed away
Alger- General Nadir Metidji, director of Communication, Information and Orientation at National Defence Ministry (MDN) died Friday aged 69, the ministry said. He died of heart disease. He will be buried on Saturday after Dohr prayer, in Algiers Sidi Yahia cemetery. Ennahar
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Marjan Kalhor, Iran's first woman in Winter Games
Dizin (Iran) - Marjan Kalhor has grown on the slopes of the Winter ski n Dizin, north of Tehran, but never thought she would achieve such a feat, that of being, at the age of 21, the first Iranian to participate in the Winter Olympics. -
FIFA: Two Algerian referees appointed for 2010 World Cup
Algiers- Algeria's Mohamed Benouza and Maamar Chaabane are among the 30 referees appointed by the Referees Committee of the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) for the World Cup scheduled from 11th June to 11th July in South Africa. -
Ziaya joined Al Ittihad al-Saudi
JEDDAH - Algerian international striker Abdelmalik Ziaya joined Thursday his new club al Ittihad al-Saudi after taking part in the African Cup of Nations (CAN-2010), reported the official website of the Saudi team first division. -
England - Capello removed the captain's armband to Terry
LONDON – England’s coach Fabio Capello on Friday decided to withdraw his captain's armband to John Terry after the revelation of an extramarital affair of the defender, says the British channel Sky.
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Al-Jazeera broadcast a video of the Hamas leader assassinated in Dubai
DUBAI - The satellite channel al-Jazeera broadcast a video Sunday in which the official of Hamas, killed recently in Dubai, narrates his role in the kidnapping and liquidation of two Israeli soldiers during the first intifada. -
Rasmussen wants to make NATO the "forum" for global security
MUNICH (Germany) - Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen has proposed on Sunday in Munich a profound change in the NATO military organization born in the Cold War, in a "forum", platform and World security crossing. -
Americans Detained in Iran: Tehran ready to negociate if Washington gives the example
TEHRAN - Iran is ready to consider "positive" the situation of three Americans detained in Iran if Washington releases Iranian detainees in the United States, said Saturday the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. -
USA-Weather: Snowpocalypse now!
WASHINGTON - The blizzard that buried the U.S. capital under nearly 50 cm of snow Saturday paralyzed much of the eastern United States where two people were killed on the roads while thousands of homes were without electricity.
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Yemen: 15 years in prison for Yahya al-Houthi, brother of the rebel leader
SANAA - A court in Sanaa condemned on Saturday to 15 years in prison Yahia al-Houthi, brother of the head of the Zaidi rebels fighting the army in northern Yemen, for "participation in an armed terrorist group". -
Morocco: Weekly Journal under seal
RABAT - The premises of the weekly Journal (JH, independent) were sealed Wednesday after a decision by a Moroccan court, according to the publication headquartered in Casablanca. -
"Avatar" has sunk the "Titanic"
LOS ANGELES - "Avatar", the fresco of science-fiction 3D, by Canadian James Cameron became the biggest success of all history of cinema, engulfing the record of "Titanic" by the same director. -
The world celebrates Chopin 200 years after his birth
PARIS - The world of music has set the year 2010 under the sign of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), who had two countries (Poland and France) but a single kingdom: the piano, he remains the master of the most beloved specialists and public, 200 years after his birth.
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