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Turkey is one of worst countries in treating reporters
Date: 2017-12-27 13:23:26 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:7161937
Head of the Tunisian Press Syndicate Nagui Baghouri said on Wednesday that Turkey is one of the worst countries in treating reporters. The International Press Federation is designating it as the biggest prison for journalists in the world, he ....
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AL chief to visit Libya next year -- AL official
Date: 2017-12-27 13:04:08 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:7161887
Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit will visit Libya next year, said AL Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Hossam Zaki on Wednesday. In press statements, he added that the AL lends much interest to the situation in ....
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Israel targets Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza
Date: 2017-12-27 11:50:16 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:7161688
The Israeli navy targeted Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza shores on Wednesday. Palestinian sources said that Israeli gunboats shot at them but none of the fishermen or their boats were harmed. Also, the sources said that Israeli military ....
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Abul Gheit inaugurates 1st specialized Arab unions forum
Date: 2017-12-27 10:26:31 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:7161447
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit inaugurated on Wednesday the first forum of the specialized Arab unions, under the theme "the role of Arab unions in joint Arab action in the coming stage." The forum will discuss means of benefiting ....
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AP rejects Israeli candidacy to UNSC seat
Date: 2017-12-27 09:57:12 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:7161335
The Palestine committee at the Arab Parliament (AP) drew up a plan for the parliament's action to stand up to Israel's candidacy to a non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council for 2019-2020. This stance was announced at a ....
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SOHR: 22 killed in shelling on Syria's Idlib
Date: 2017-12-27 09:11:23 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:7161247
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has said the number of people killed in Syrian regime shelling of southern Reef Idlib (Idlib countryside) rose to 22. The London-based observatory, according al Hurra news channel, added the ....
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2 Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk blast
Date: 2017-12-27 09:11:14 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:7161202
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and an officer injured in a blast in Kirkuk. A security source told local media that an explosive charge went off while an army patrol was passing on a local road in southern Kirkuk, leaving two soldiers dead and an ....
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Red Cross says medical evacuations of Syria's Eastern Ghouta begin
Date: 2017-12-27 09:10:54 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:7161142
Medical evacuations have begun in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, the Red Cross, quoted by the BBC, said. In a tweet, it said that "critical" patients were being moved from the Eastern Ghouta area to the capital. Last week, ....
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Aqsa mosque desecrated by 90 Jewish settlers
Date: 2017-12-26 15:22:45 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:7160537
ِAround 90 Jewish settlers, including religious institutes students, intelligence officers and, policemen, have stormed Al- Aqsa mosque from Al-Maghareba Gate and, desecrated the mosque. The intruders made provocative tours inside the mosque, ....
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Iraqi forces detain 6 suspected terrorists in Diyala
Date: 2017-12-26 13:48:53 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:7160283
Iraqi security forces arrested six suspected terrorists in Diyala on Tuesday. Diyala Police Department said is an official statement that the detained are wanted in connection with terror and criminal cases in several parts of the eastern Iraqi ....