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Fatah condemns Barakat assassination

Date: 2015-06-30 10:25:58 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:2894057

The Palestinian movement Fatah condemned the assassination of Egyptian Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat. In a statement Tuesday, Fatah slammed acts of terror which have no religion or nationality and contradict all heavenly religions and ....

38 Yemenis killed, injured in two blasts in Sanaa

Date: 2015-06-30 09:37:48 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:2893633

One Yemeni was killed and 37 people were injured in two blasts in Sanaa. The first explosion took place in front of a mosque in Bani Mansur, al Haymah al Kharijiyah area in Sanaa, leaving behind one person killed and two others injured, a ....

Palestinian wounded, five detained near Nablus

Date: 2015-06-30 09:31:51 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:2893589

A 19-year-old Palestinian was shot with a rubber-coated metal bullet in his left leg by Israeli forces in southwest of Nablus in the West Bank, sources said. They said Israeli soldiers also detained five others. They said clashes erupted ....

Israel allows 500 trucks into Gaza Strip

Date: 2015-06-30 09:20:56 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:2893501

Israeli authorities decided on Tuesday to allow 500 trucks loaded with commodities into the Gaza Strip through Karam Abu Salem crossing. The trucks are carrying goods for the commercial, agricultural and transportation sectors along with aid ....

Hadi mourns death of Barakat

Date: 2015-06-30 07:42:13 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:2892721

Yemeni President Abd Rabuh Mansur Hadi - who stays temporarily in Saudi Arabia - phoned Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Tuesday to express condolences over the death of Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat. Hadi wished speedy recovery ....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....

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 ....