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UN urges Lebanon to keep protests peaceful

Date: 2019-11-26 06:48:13 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:8204280

The UN Security Council on Monday night called for "the peaceful character of the protests" in Lebanon to be upheld. Members "called on all actors to conduct intensive national dialogue and to maintain the peaceful character of the protests by ....

High-level US delegation meets with Libya's Haftar

Date: 2019-11-26 06:42:30 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:8204271

Senior U.S. officials met with General Khalifa Haftar on Sunday to discuss steps to achieve a suspension of hostilities and a political resolution to the Libyan conflict, according to a press statement by the US Secretary of State out on Tuesday. ....

Arab FMs deplore US decision on Israeli settlements in West Bank

Date: 2019-11-26 06:20:21 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:8204252

Arab foreign ministers announced their condemnation and rejection of the US decision to consider Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory since 1967 not inconsistent with international law. The remarks were made on Monday at the ....

AL chief: US announcement on settlements a regretful change

Date: 2019-11-25 14:46:05 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:8203741

Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit has considered Washington's announcement on the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as a negative and regretful change in the US stance. "I doubt the current administration is ....

AL chief slams US announcement on Israeli settlements, terms it as "very negative" development

Date: 2019-11-19 08:52:58 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:8194153

Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday condemned the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank do not violate international law, considering it as a ....

Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements

Date: 2019-11-19 05:44:14 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:8193890

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a major reversal of the US' longstanding policy on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, rejecting a 1978 State Department legal opinion that deemed the settlements "inconsistent with ....

Leader of Ennahda party elected speaker of Tunisian parl't

Date: 2019-11-13 23:16:33 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:8186782

The Tunisian parliament elected on Wednesday leader of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party Rached Ghannouchi as its speaker. Ghannouchi won 123 votes followed by leader of the Democratic Current party Ghazi Chaouachi, 45 votes, and leader of the ....

Italian tourist injured from Israeli teargas canister in Bethlehem

Date: 2019-11-13 23:10:09 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:8186778

An Italian tourist was injured in the shoulder after being hit by a teargas canister fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes with Palestinians in the occupied southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, WAFA reported Wednesday. Bethlehem Red Crescent ....

AL chief receives credentials of Algeria's permanent representative

Date: 2019-11-11 15:11:42 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:8183409

Secretary-General of the Arab League (AL) Ahmed Abul Gheit received on Monday the credentials of Ambassador Mahanad Saleh, Algeria's permanent representative to the AL. In a meeting at the AL headquarters, Abul Gheit welcomed the new Algerian ....

Jordanian king receives US delegation

Date: 2019-11-07 23:25:24 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:8179433

King Abdullah of Jordan received Thursday a US House of Representatives delegation, headed by Representatives Adam Smith, to discuss the strategic partnership between Jordan and the United States, and the latest regional developments, Petra ....