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Libyan dialogue to resume in Morocco Thursday
Date: 2015-06-29 09:49:55 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:2885477
The Tobruk-based parliament - House of Representatives, and Tripoli-based General National Congress will hold a fresh session of dialogue in the Moroccan city of Skhirat on Thursday under the sponsorship of the UN. The two sides agreed to study ....
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Houthis shell oil port in Aden for 3rd day in row
Date: 2015-06-29 09:47:01 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:2885449
Houthi militias once again bombed the oil port and refineries in Aden early Monday, sources here said. Katyusha rockets shelled what's left of oil reservoirs, the sources said in statements posted on "Hona Aden" news website. Mortar and ....
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560 trucks enter Gaza via Karam Abu Salem crossing
Date: 2015-06-29 07:52:44 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:2884465
Israeli authorities decided to allow 560 trucks loaded with aid supplies to the Gaza Strip via Karam Abu Salem crossing. The trucks include 66 trucks loaded with construction materials for international projects and 150,000 trucks loaded with ....
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Families visit Gazan detainees in Nafha jail
Date: 2015-06-29 07:51:28 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:2884461
Families of Gazan detainees held in Israel's Nafha prison were allowed to visit them Monday. Forty-seven family members of 29 detainees crossed Beit Hanoun terminal in the northern Gaza Strip to visit the inmates, said Sohair Zaqout, the ....
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Israeli navy intercepts Gaza-bound vessel
Date: 2015-06-29 07:47:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:2884453
Israel's navy intercepted a vessel attempting to breach a naval blockade of Gaza early Monday and redirected it to an Israeli port, Radio Israel reported quoting an Israeli army spokesman. After all diplomatic efforts failed to bring Marianne ....
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11 Libyan soldiers killed in Derna ambush
Date: 2015-06-29 07:42:49 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:2884393
At least 11 soldiers of the Libyan army have been killed in an ambush by militants of the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) in Derna at the western entrance to the city. The death toll from the attack that occurred late Sunday is apt to increase, a ....
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Arab League chief to meet Russian FM in Moscow
Date: 2015-06-28 18:11:31 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:2882873
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el Araby will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his upcoming visit to Moscow in early July, he said in an interview with Sputnik on Sunday. The secretary general said the meeting will take ....
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Abbas discusses cultural issues with number of Palestinian writers
Date: 2015-06-28 18:10:53 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:2882881
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received Sunday a delegation of the General Union of Palestinian Writers (GUPW) and Palestinian writers' union in the occupied territories. Abbas lauded accrediting the Palestinian writers' in the occupied ....
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AL official condemns Friday's terror attacks in Kuwait, Tunisia
Date: 2015-06-28 11:14:37 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:26 - ID:2880149
Secretary General of the Arab League's Council of Arab Economic Unity Mohamad Al Rabie on Sunday condemned a suicide bombing that targeted a Kuwaiti mosque and a terror attack hat targeted two Tunisian resorts on Friday. In statements to MENA, Al ....
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Iraqi forces kill 36 Daesh militants in Al Anbar
Date: 2015-06-28 11:03:49 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:2879621
Iraqi forces killed 36 Daesh militants in Al Anbar province in western Iraq on Sunday, a security source said. In coordination with Iraqi Air Force, the ground troops raided a depot of weapons owned by the militant group, destroying it fully and ....