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Libyans rally outside Arab League for lifting arm embargo
Date: 2015-08-18 10:58:07 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:3178733
Scores of Libyans staged a rally outside the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo on Tuesday, demanding the lift of an arms embargo on the North African state. The rally came as the pan-Arab body was holding an emergency meeting to discuss the ....
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Iraqi PM cancels ministry advisors position
Date: 2015-08-18 08:16:54 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3177281
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al Abadi has said he is canceling the positions of advisers in ministries. He also is limiting the number of advisers for himself, the president, and the parliamentary speaker to five each. The sackings are the ....
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Hamas rejects establishment of state in Gaza Strip - Haniyah
Date: 2015-08-18 08:07:16 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:3177209
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah said the movement rejects the establishment of a state in Gaza Strip in return for giving up on the rest of occupied Palestine. In a speech on Monday, Haniyah said the movement "will not accept a state called Gaza on ....
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Yemen thanks Arab coalition countries for their support to his country
Date: 2015-08-17 20:19:36 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:3176337
Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyad Yasin said the legitimacy in his country offers everything possible to the Saudi-led Arab coalition to score more victories over the Houthi militias and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Saleh. In an a telephone ....
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Saudi-led coalition warplanes bomb Houthi positions in Yemen's Ma'rib
Date: 2015-08-17 20:00:53 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:3176289
Warplanes of a Saudi-led coalition bombed on Monday positions of militias of Houthi group and ousted Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in southwestern Ma'rib province, east of Yemen. Yemeni press sources in Sanaa said that the warplanes ....
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Arab League chief meets Sudan aid commissioner
Date: 2015-08-17 12:33:33 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:3173553
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el Araby met with visiting Sudan Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Ahmed Mohamed Adam on Monday. The pair probed means to provide financial funding for a number of development and humanitarian projects to be ....
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2 terrorists killed while attempting to sneak into military zones
Date: 2015-08-17 09:12:06 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:3171597
The Lebanese army killed two terrorists as they attempted to sneak into army zones in southeastern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese army. The two were sneaking from Arsal village into southeastern Lebanon. ....
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Arab coalition planes shell Houthi sites in Ibb
Date: 2015-08-17 08:10:39 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:3171181
Arab coalition planes shelled sites of militias loyal to the Houthi group and former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Ibb governorate early Monday. The planes targeted the house of Mohamed al Saqqaf, the official in charge of military ....
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Syrian activists broadcast video on targeting Assad forces in Daraa
Date: 2015-08-17 07:55:48 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:3171057
Syrian activists broadcast a video on Monday showing the armed opposition while targeting Assad forces in Daraa city using tanks and shells. The video also showed a publication of the Authenticity and Development Front, according to Al Arabiya Al ....
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Yemeni Popular Resistance controls presidential palace in Taiz
Date: 2015-08-17 07:49:37 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:3171037
The Yemeni Popular Resistance in Taiz, supporters of Yemeni President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, announced that it controlled the presidential palace after fierce fights with Houthi militias. The militias withdrew from the palace, which is almost ....