Arab world

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  • US announces additional $60 mln in humanitarian assistance for Sudan

    Date: 2020-10-30 22:39:26 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:76 - ID:8651082

    KHARTOUM, Oct 30 (MENA) - The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), announced Friday an additional $60 million in humanitarian assistance to respond to severe flooding in Sudan, USAID's Sudan office said in a ....

  • Libya's Sarraj takes back decision to resign

    Date: 2020-10-30 20:39:07 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:8651057

    TRIPOLI, Oct 30 (MENA) - Head of the Tripoli-based government Fayez Sarraj said on Friday he had withdrawn his resignation. "I took back my decision to resign at the end of October in response to insistent demands both domestically and abroad, to ....

  • Arab writers union denounces Macron's remarks on Islam

    Date: 2020-10-30 18:50:01 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:68 - ID:8650625

    CAIRO, Oct 30 (MENA) - The General Union of Arab Writers has expressed its full rejection of French President Emmanuel Macron's remarks on Islam, which sparked outrage inside France and different parts of the Muslim world. In a statement ....

  • France, Germany, Italy, France welcome ceasefire in Libya

    Date: 2020-10-30 18:48:04 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:67 - ID:8650882

    TRIPOLI, LONDON, Oct 30 (MENA) - The Governments of France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom warmly welcomed the results of the UN-mediated Fourth Round of the intra-Libyan Joint Military Commission (5+5), the conclusion by the Libyan parties ....

  • Algeria reports 319 new cases, 195 recoveries in last 24 hours

    Date: 2020-10-30 17:59:11 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:65 - ID:8650923

    ALGIERS, Oct 30 (MENA) - A total of 319 new confirmed Covid-19 cases, 195 recoveries and seven deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours in Algeria, spokesman of the scientific committee for monitoring the progress of Coronavirus pandemic Djamel ....

  • Jordan reports highest daily caseload of 3,921 infections on Friday

    Date: 2020-10-30 17:49:51 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:64 - ID:8650924

    AMMAN, Oct 30 (MENA) - Jordan reported 3,921 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the highest daily caseload since the pandemic broke out in the Kingdom in March, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 69,306, Petra reported. ....

  • AL chief condemns Nice terror attack; calls for respecting religions

    Date: 2020-10-30 17:10:54 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:54 - ID:8650795

    CAIRO, Oct 30 (MENA) – Arab League (AL) chief Ahmed Abul Gheit condemned on Friday a terror attack that killed three people – two women and a man –at the Notre-Dame Basilica in the city of Nice on the southeast coast of France. Abul Gheit’s ....

  • Iraqi army strikes 4 Daesh posts in Baqubah

    Date: 2020-10-30 15:07:42 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:48 - ID:8650555

    BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (MENA) - The Iraqi army targeted on Friday Daesh posts northeast Baqubah city in Diyala governorate, according to a local security source. The source said that Iraqi warplanes struck four major posts for Daesh cells in different ....

  • Saudi Arabia reports 398 new COVID-19 cases

    Date: 2020-10-30 15:04:29 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:8650611

    RIYADH, Oct 30 (MENA) - Saudi Arabia reported 398 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, raising the total number of infections to 346,880 on Friday, said the Saudi Health Ministry. An additional 20 fatalities were also reported in the ....

  • Protesters clash with security forces over prophet cartoon

    Date: 2020-10-30 14:28:28 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:8650612

    BEIRUT, Oct 30 (MENA) - Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with Lebanese security forces outside the French Embassy Friday, protesting the use of cartoons in France that many consider insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, The Daily Star Lebanon ....

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