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Rabat informs UN of names of MINURSO staffers to be expelled
Date: 2016-03-17 06:51:55 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:4528033
Morocco's permanent mission in New York handed the UN a list of the names of the UN Western Sahara mission (MINURSO) staffers whom Rabat plans to expel within the coming few days. The move comes in implementation of an earlier decision of the ....
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Arabi: Russian troops withdrawal "positive step" to render successful Geneva talks
Date: 2016-03-16 10:30:59 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:4522037
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el Arabi voiced hope that withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria would provide the appropriate atmosphere for rendering successful Geneva talks that were opened two days ago between the Syrian government and ....
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Second batch of Russian jets leaves Syria airbase
Date: 2016-03-16 07:52:34 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:4520553
The second group of Russian warplanes left the Khmeimim airbase in Syria’s Latakia province on Wednesday morning, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced. Another group of Russian aircraft took off from the airbase in Khmeimim heading to ....
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Morocco to cut UN Western Sahara mission after Ban remarks
Date: 2016-03-16 07:41:30 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:4520453
Morocco plans to reduce staff at the United Nations' Western Sahara mission and threatened to pull out of UN peacekeeping missions worldwide after "unacceptable" comments by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about the disputed region, the Daily Mail ....
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Iraqi president warns of Daesh use of internationally banned weapons
Date: 2016-03-15 16:22:24 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:4518057
Iraqi President Fuad Masum warns of Daesh use of internationally banned weapons in retaliation for their inevitable defeat in Iraq. He urged taking precautionary measures to prevent Daesh – the ancestors and remnants of the perpetrators the ....
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Iraqi FM urges EU to help his country reconstruct liberated areas
Date: 2016-03-15 13:22:36 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:4516277
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim el Jaafari has appealed to the international community to support efforts of reconstructing areas liberated from Daesh to enable those who fled the battles to go back to their houses. In a meeting with EU ....
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Daesh commander Omar Shishani dead, says Pentagon
Date: 2016-03-15 07:21:42 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:4512821
A senior commander of Daesh militant group is dead, the Pentagon has confirmed. Defense officials said Omar Shishani died from injuries sustained in a recent US air strike in north-eastern Syria. Earlier reports had suggested Shishani, a ....
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Palestine obtains PCA membership
Date: 2016-03-15 07:18:54 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:4512805
Palestine has been approved as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Palestinian foreign ministry was quoted by the state news agency WAFA as saying on Monday. Following contacts with main players, majority of the court's members ....
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Arab coalition warplanes shell houthis positions in Ma'reb, Jawaf
Date: 2016-03-15 07:04:20 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:4512713
Arab coalition warplanes on Tuesday shelled positions of militias of houthis and former Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Saleh in Mareb and Jawaf governorates. In Ma'reb, the Arab warjets shelled Serwah city in western Ma'reb on the road leading to ....
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Israeli forces kill in 3 Palestinians in WB
Date: 2016-03-14 09:16:12 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:4505917
Three Palestinians were killed in east Hebron on Monday when Israeli forces opened fired towardS them. The occupation forces claimed they shot the three were shot over a stabbing operation in the West Bank. ....