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  • OIC urges support for UN draft resolution on protecting Palestinians

    OIC urges support for UN draft resolution on protecting Palestinians

    Date: 2018-06-12 07:13:23 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:7440681

    Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef Al Othaimeen on Monday urged all countries to adopt a UN resolution to protect Palestinian civilians. The Islamic and Arab groups is scheduled Wednesday to submit a draft ....

  • Qatar lies in Hajj claims - UAE minister

    Qatar lies in Hajj claims - UAE minister

    Date: 2018-06-12 06:59:46 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:7440660

    UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash on Monday said Qatar dared to lie on allegations about Hajj. He was apparently commenting in a tweet on reports that Qatar had accused Saudi Arabia of banning its nationals from performing ....

  • US Imposes sanctions on 6 for trafficking Libyan migrants

    US Imposes sanctions on 6 for trafficking Libyan migrants

    Date: 2018-06-11 19:09:38 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:7440439

    The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), concurrently with the United Nations, sanctioned six individuals for threatening the peace, security, or stability of Libya through their involvement in the smuggling of ....

  • New massacre by US-led coalition leaves 18 dead in Hasaka countryside

    New massacre by US-led coalition leaves 18 dead in Hasaka countryside

    Date: 2018-06-11 16:54:11 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:7440352

    The warplanes of the US-led international coalition raided a school in the village of Khoibra in the southeast of Al Shaddadah, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) quoted local sources on Monday. The coalition raid claimed the lives of 18 ....

  • Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, including journalist

    Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, including journalist

    Date: 2018-06-11 10:48:57 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7439488

    Israeli forces detained on Monday 11 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, including a journalist, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said that the occupation forces detained seven people from Hebron, ....

  • Saudi defenses intercept missile over Jazan fired by Houthi militias from Yemen

    Saudi defenses intercept missile over Jazan fired by Houthi militias from Yemen

    Date: 2018-06-10 19:47:50 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7438825

    Saudi Arabia’s air defenses announced on Sunday that they have intercepted a missile over the border city of Jazan fired by Houthi militias from within Yemeni territories, SPA reported. This comes just a day after three civilians were confirmed ....

  • Jorandian, Tunisian leaders discuss regional developments

    Jorandian, Tunisian leaders discuss regional developments

    Date: 2018-06-08 19:37:15 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:7436262

    Jordanian King Abdullah II discussed over the phone with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi the latest developments in the region. The Royal Hashemite Court said in a statement that the two sides asserted the depth of Jordanian-Tunisian ties, ....

  • 44 killed in air raid on Idlib countryside

    44 killed in air raid on Idlib countryside

    Date: 2018-06-08 18:48:58 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7436232

    Syrian sources said on Friday that Forty-four people were killed in an airstrike on Zerdena village in the countryside of Idlib. The figure includes 11 women and six children, Alhurra news channel quoted the sources as saying. ....

  • China, Kuwait mull developing economic relations

    China, Kuwait mull developing economic relations

    Date: 2018-06-08 17:33:18 GMT - China - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:7436159

    Chinese officials discussed with a visiting Kuwaiti delegation, led by Chief Executive Officer of the apparatus for developing the Silk City in (Al Sabbiah) and Boubyan Island, Faisal al Medlej, means to develop economic ties between the two ....

  • Red Cross pulls 71 staff members out of war-torn Yemen

    Red Cross pulls 71 staff members out of war-torn Yemen

    Date: 2018-06-07 20:02:07 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:7435186

    The International Committee of the Red Cross said it has pulled 71 staff members out of Yemen after a series of incidents and threats in the war-torn country, ABC News reported. Dominik Stillhart, ICRC's director of operations, said Thursday that ....

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