Author: By SAMY MAGDY | AP ID: 1553974696330617200 Sat, 2019-03-30 18:56 CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Saturday announced that he has raised the minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($115.74) per month from 1,200 ($69.27), a 67 percent … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1553973401500493700 Sat, 2019-03-30 19:11 TRIPOLI: Libya held rare municipal elections in nine communities on Saturday, although turnout in the country’s first voting for five years reached only about 38 percent. The North African state, which has been … read more
Sat, 2019-03-30 16:04 RABAT: Pope Francis arrived in Morocco on Saturday for a visit which will see him meet Muslim leaders and migrants ahead of a mass with the country’s minority Catholic community. The spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion … read more
Sat, 2019-03-30 15:59 TUNIS: Arab foreign ministers prepared a number of draft resolutions on Friday ahead of the 30th Arab League Summit in the Tunisian capital. The preparatory meeting covered several issues tabled for discussion at the summit, and adopted a number … read more
Author: AP ID: 1553947837307671300 Sat, 2019-03-30 12:03 ISTANBUL: A pro-Kurdish party in Turkey says party members have been detained in the lead-up to Sunday’s municipal elections. The Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP, said in a statement Saturday that 53 people … read more