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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 ....
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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TRIPOLI, Oct 30 (MENA) - Head of the Tripoli-based government Fayez Sarraj said on Friday he had withdrawn his resignation.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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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. ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....
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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 ....