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  • Saudi king receives call from former Lebanese president

    Saudi king receives call from former Lebanese president

    Date: 2014-11-05 08:18:45 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:1267929

    King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received Tuesday a telephone call from former Lebanese president Michel Suleiman. During the call, they discussed bilateral ties between the two countries. ....

  • Khartoum, Juba voice keenness on strong relations

    Khartoum, Juba voice keenness on strong relations

    Date: 2014-11-05 08:15:22 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:1267889

    Sudan and South Sudan asserted Tuesday their keenness on commitment to bilateral agreements and peaceful relations to reach settlement on contested borders. The two states made the remarks during a meeting between South Sudan's President Salva ....

  • Saudi court jails 38 over takfirri charges

    Saudi court jails 38 over takfirri charges

    Date: 2014-11-05 08:09:43 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:1267853

    A court in Riyadh on Tuesday sentenced 38 Saudis to prison terms ranging from three months to 16 years and placed a travel ban on them over terror charges. The defendants were convicted with considering the Saudi government, scholars and police ....

  • Sudan's defense min. returns home from Qatar

    Sudan's defense min. returns home from Qatar

    Date: 2014-11-05 08:04:58 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:9 - ID:1267805

    Sudanese Defence Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein returned Wednesday home after a several-day official visit to Qatar. The Sudanese minister's visit came after receiving an invitation from his Qatari counterpart Hamad bin Ali Al-Attiyah, ....

  • Daesh tortured, abused 150 Kurdish boys - HRW

    Daesh tortured, abused 150 Kurdish boys - HRW

    Date: 2014-11-05 07:58:37 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:1267749

    The Deash militants in Syria forced children as young as 14 to watch videos of beheadings and beat them with cables during six months of captivity, The Telegraph cited Human Rights Watch (HRW) as saying on Tuesday. The militants abducted a group ....

  • Palestinian president meets Danish foreign minister in Ramallah

    Palestinian president meets Danish foreign minister in Ramallah

    Date: 2014-11-05 07:08:49 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:1267433

    Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The meeting took up the latest developments in the region and the Palestinian bid to establish an independent ....

  • Sudan, Germany discuss supporting economic projects in Khartoum

    Sudan, Germany discuss supporting economic projects in Khartoum

    Date: 2014-11-04 18:38:32 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:1266177

    The Sudanese president's aide Ibrahim el-Ghandour met on Tuesday with German ambassador in Khartoum Rolf Welberts on the role of Germany's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in supporting economic projects in Sudan. Ghandour stressed, during ....

  • UNRWA to pay compensations to thousands of Palestinians affected by Gaza war

    UNRWA to pay compensations to thousands of Palestinians affected by Gaza war

    Date: 2014-11-04 18:11:16 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:64 - ID:1266025

    UNRWA will pay compensations to thousands of Palestinians whose houses were partially or completely destroyed during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, UNRWA Director of Gaza Operations Robert Turner said. Turner's remarks came in ....

  • UK slams Daesh crimes in Iraq

    UK slams Daesh crimes in Iraq

    Date: 2014-11-04 17:31:58 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:1265385

    The United Kingdom has condemned the crimes committed by Daesh terrorist group in the Iraqi province of Anbar. According to a statement by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Tuesday, British Ambassador in Baghdad Frank Baker has offered ....

  • Bashir, Salva Kiir hold talks

    Bashir, Salva Kiir hold talks

    Date: 2014-11-04 16:31:01 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:1263345

    Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir on Tuesday conferred with his visiting South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir who arrived here on official visit to Sudan. The talks covered bilateral relations, regional issues of common interest as well as a set ....

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