Khartoum, May 21 (SUNA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassies of the African group will celebrate Africa Day at 06:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, 2013, at the Club of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kafouri Quarter. The celebration program will include the official festival which will be attended by the representative of the government and heads of the diplomatic corps and a football...

Khartoum, May. 21 (SUNA) - The Foreign Minister, Ali Karti met at his office Tuesday the Chinese Charge d' Affaires in Khartoum and reviewed progress of the bilateral relations between the two countries and means for consolidating them further . The meeting also discussed the Sudan-South Sudan State relations where the minister affirmed Sudan's commitment to implement the cooperation agreements...

Khartoum, May 21 (SUNA)- The Foreign Minister, Ali Ahmed Karti, Tuesday received a copy of the credentials of the nominee Ambassador of Belarus to Sudan, resident in Cairo, Igor Fissenko, prior to presenting the credentials to the President of the Republic. Karti and Ambassador Fissenko have discussed progress of the relations between the two countries. He referred to visits paid by Sudanese officials...

Khartoum , May. 21 (SUNA) - The Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Dr.Suleiman Abdul Rahman has said that Sudan and the UN shared identical views on not extending relief items to the war affected -people from outside borders and carrying out vaccination campaigns in the rebel controlled-area from outside but within the borders of the State of Sudan . The Commissioner told SUNA, Tuesday that Minister...

Khartoum, May 21 (SUNA) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Karti, has called on the United Nations and its different organs to adopt strong and serious stances against the rebel groups that are undermining peace and security in Darfur and Kordofan. This came when he received Tuesday at his office with the visiting UN Secretary General Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs and Relief...

Khartoum, May. 21 (SUNA) - Cabinet Affairs Minister, Ahmed Saad Omer has affirmed the important role being played by Malaysia to support the development map in Sudan . This came when the minister received at his office, Tuesday, the Malaysian Ambassador to Khartoum and reviewed with him the progress of the bilateral relations between the two countries and the implementations of the recommendations...

JERUSALEM May 21, 2013(Reuters) - Israeli troops shot at a target across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights, the Israeli military said. A statement said a military vehicle was damaged by shots fired from Syria but that there were no injuries. It said that soldiers "returned precise fire". Gunfire incidents across the frontier...

MOSCOW May 21, 2013(Reuters) - The right-hand man of Russia's most wanted insurgent was killed by security forces on Tuesday, officials said, as Moscow tries to contain militancy in its Caucasus region before it hosts the Winter Olympics near there next February. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, a senior figure in a group fighting to establish an Islamist state, was killed along with another militant in a shootout...

LONDON May 21, 2013(Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is committed to governing as part of a two-party coalition until the next national election in 2015, his spokesman said on Tuesday, days after Cameron raised the prospect of the alliance breaking apart. Cameron has ruled with the Liberal Democrats, his junior coalition partner, since 2010, but the two have taken increasingly...

WASHINGTON May 21, 2013 (Reuters) - Apple Inc came under fire on Tuesday at a Senate hearing over an investigation that alleged the U.S. high technology icon has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries and paid little or no taxes to any government. "Apple effectively shifts billions of dollars in profits offshore, profits that under one section of the tax code should nonetheless...