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Hamas rejects US decision on blacklisting Ismail Haniyeh
Date: 2018-02-01 09:10:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7221570
Hamas rejected Wednesday the US Department of State’s decision, blacklisting the movement’s Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh among the world's terrorists. Such a decision violated the international norms and laws and granted the Palestinians the ....
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Lebanon PM lambastes Israeli defense min. remarks on offshore energy block
Date: 2018-02-01 07:47:29 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7221446
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad El Hariri has lashed out at Israeli defense minister’s remarks on Block 9 located in the Lebanese territorial waters, saying they came as part of Israel's "expansionist and settler policies aimed at undermining the ....
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OIC chief expresses serious concern at mounting insecurity in Mali
Date: 2018-01-31 16:54:19 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:7221051
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Yousef al Othaimeen has expressed serious concern over the spate of terrorist attacks and growing insecurity in Mali. Othaimeen denounced the separate cowardly attacks on January ....
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Arab coalition jets shell Houthis' weapon warehouses in Sanaa
Date: 2018-01-31 07:59:33 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:7219569
The Arab coalition jets shelled Houthis' weapon warehouses in Sanaa at dawn on Wednesday. The jets launched five raids on the warehouses in northern Sanaa where several people were killed and injured, Al Arabiya news channel reported. The ....
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Arab Monetary Fund raises alarm about jobless in Arab region
Date: 2018-01-30 15:11:16 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:7218786
Head of the Arab Monetary Fund Abdel Rahaman Al Hamidy has warned that unemployment is the most serious and difficult challenge to economy and policy makers in Arab countries, especially after the increase of jobless rates to 29 percent among young ....
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Saudi Arabia's KAICIID receives Africa Peace Prize 2018 award
Date: 2018-01-30 15:04:21 GMT - Austria - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:7218769
The United Religions Initiative (URI) has granted its Africa Peace Prize 2018 to the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) in Vienna, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The ....
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Iraqi President: Egyptian firms have priority in Iraq projects
Date: 2018-01-30 14:38:09 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:7218702
Iraqi President Fouad Masoum on Tuesday said that Egyptian companies have priority in implementing projects for the reconstruction of Iraq. At a meeting with Egyptian Presidential Adviser for National Projects Ibrahim Mahlab, the president added ....
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Sochi peace conference for Syria kicks off
Date: 2018-01-30 11:47:42 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:7218231
A Russian-sponsored peace conference for Syria kicked off on Tuesday in the Black Sea Resort of Sochi after it has been delayed for almost two hours. At least 1,500 participants from Syria, including 107 representatives of the Syrian opposition ....
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AL seeks enhancing role in regional conflict management
Date: 2018-01-30 11:21:48 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:7218185
The Arab League (AL) is seeking to play a greater role in conflict management in the region, said an AL senior official on Tuesday. AL Assistant Secretary General for Media Affairs Ambassador Haifaa Abu Ghazala said in a speech at a meeting on ....
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Russia says Sochi conference on Syria delayed
Date: 2018-01-30 10:12:22 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:7218056
A Russian diplomat said Tuesday the opening of a Russia-sponsored peace conference for Syria is being delayed. Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi is hosting the conference that Moscow describes as an effort to speed up political settlement for ....