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  • Legitimate Libyan govt to abide by political solution to crisis - FM

    Legitimate Libyan govt to abide by political solution to crisis - FM

    Date: 2015-04-11 08:22:49 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:2355437

    The legitimate Libyan government is committed to a political solution to the violence plaguing the country, affirmed Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed al Dairi. In exclusive statements to al Arabiya al Hadath, a pan-Arab television channel, Dairi ....

  • Tunisian president receives UN special representative for Mali

    Tunisian president receives UN special representative for Mali

    Date: 2015-04-10 18:50:35 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:2354041

    Tunisian President Béji Caid Essebsi met, Friday in Carthage, with Mongi Hamdi, Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General for Mali, TAP news agency reported. The UN official submitted a request to Tunis for the ....

  • Palestinian young man killed, 2 injured as Israeli forces attack funeral

    Palestinian young man killed, 2 injured as Israeli forces attack funeral

    Date: 2015-04-10 18:32:39 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:2353109

    A Palestinian young man was killed and two others were injured after the Israeli forces attacked a funeral in Hebron Friday. Ziad Omar, 27, was killed as Israeli forces fired bullets and tear gas bombs at the funeral of 22-year-old Jafar Awad, a ....

  • Yemen crisis ‘getting worse by the hour’ – UN humanitarian official

    Yemen crisis ‘getting worse by the hour’ – UN humanitarian official

    Date: 2015-04-10 18:10:57 GMT - Switzerland - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:2353765

    The humanitarian situation in Yemen is “getting worse by the hour,” the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the country warned today, saying that the escalating conflict has put millions of people at risk of physical injury or death. “We ....

  • Jumblatt calls for amendments to Taif agreement

    Jumblatt calls for amendments to Taif agreement

    Date: 2015-04-10 18:09:21 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:31 - ID:2353749

    Leader of the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt called on Friday for amendments to the Taif agreement, signed in 1989. In a Twitter post, Jumblatt said this move will help the experienced persons to assume posts, regardless of ....

  • Aden petroleum refinery closed due to deteriorating security conditions

    Aden petroleum refinery closed due to deteriorating security conditions

    Date: 2015-04-10 17:53:42 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:2353381

    Aden petroleum refinery, whose capacity hits 150,000 barrels daily, was closed due to the deteriorating security conditions, as well as clashes taking place between the Yemenis and Houthis loyal to the former Yemeni president. Well-placed sources ....

  • Huge fire erupts in Algeria's Constantine

    Huge fire erupts in Algeria's Constantine

    Date: 2015-04-10 16:57:12 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:2353361

    A huge fire erupted Friday in the Algerian city of Constantine just a week ahead of the "Constantine, capital of Arab culture 2015". The fire led to the destruction of 40 retail outlets. Attempts to control the fire lasted for more than three ....

  • Libyan brigade denies withdrawal from western Benghazi

    Libyan brigade denies withdrawal from western Benghazi

    Date: 2015-04-10 16:51:32 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:2353145

    A spokesman for the 309th brigade of the Libyan army denied on Friday media reports that it would withdraw from the western part of Benghazi due to shortage of ammunition. Al Monzer al Khartoush stressed that the brigade has enough weapons. A ....

  • Daesh holding 50 civilians after raid on Syria village

    Daesh holding 50 civilians after raid on Syria village

    Date: 2015-04-10 16:06:16 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:2353089

    Militants of the Daesh terrorist group are holding hostage at least 50 civilians captured in a raid on a village in central Syria, the Daily Star reported, quoting an activist group. They were kidnapped from the village of Mabujeh in Hama ....

  • Hamas denies forming high committee to administrate Gaza Strip

    Hamas denies forming high committee to administrate Gaza Strip

    Date: 2015-04-10 12:47:13 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:2351773

    The Palestinian movement of Hamas denied news fanned by local mass media about communications carried out by the movement with the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip concerning forming a high committee to administrate the enclave. In press ....

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