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  • Lebanon opens schools for Tripoli residents displaced by clashes

    Lebanon opens schools for Tripoli residents displaced by clashes

    Date: 2014-10-27 07:40:42 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:1206785

    The authorities in Lebanon have decided to open schools to receive residents fleeing clashes in the northern troubled city of Tripoli. The army has been fighting Islamist militants in the city. ....

  • King Abdullah, Ashton meet on ME peace efforts

    King Abdullah, Ashton meet on ME peace efforts

    Date: 2014-10-26 17:13:21 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:1204821

    Jordanian King Abdullah II met Sunday with visiting European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to probe efforts to achieve comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on the two-state solution. During the meeting, King Abdullah ....

  • AL chief heads for Germany

    AL chief heads for Germany

    Date: 2014-10-26 15:00:43 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:1203869

    Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Araby left Cairo on Sunday heading for Germany on a three-day visit. The AL chief is to participate in a conference discussing the situation of the Syrian refugees and backing stability in the region. He ....

  • AL chief urges Arab consolidation to restore stolen documents by colonialists

    AL chief urges Arab consolidation to restore stolen documents by colonialists

    Date: 2014-10-26 11:58:01 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:1202529

    Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Arabi has called for consolidating Arab efforts to restore documents stolen by the colonialist countries that seek to tarnish the Arab identity and twist historical facts, especially about ....

  • Kuwaiti emir issues 2 decrees to appoint new ministers

    Kuwaiti emir issues 2 decrees to appoint new ministers

    Date: 2014-10-26 11:42:12 GMT - Kuwait - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:1202421

    Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah issued two decrees to appoint new ministers. He appointed Badr Hamad al-Issa as higher education minister and Yakoub Abdel-Mohsen al-Sanea as minister of justice, awqaf and Islamic affairs. ....

  • Hadi confers with UN envoy on recent developments in Yemen

    Hadi confers with UN envoy on recent developments in Yemen

    Date: 2014-10-26 11:32:17 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:1202337

    Yemeni President Abd Rabuh Mansur Hadi conferred on Sunday with the United Nations assistant secretary general and envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, on the recent developments in Yemen. The get-together tackled the execution of the Peace and ....

  • Al-Nusra Front threatens to hang abducted soldiers if Lebanon army did not halt Tripoli campaign

    Al-Nusra Front threatens to hang abducted soldiers if Lebanon army did not halt Tripoli campaign

    Date: 2014-10-26 11:14:31 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:1200473

    Al-Nusra Front threatened the Lebanese army that it would hang the abducted military members if it did not stop its military campaign in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. The front threatened that it will kill abducted soldier Ali al-Bazzal. On ....

  • Tunisian president cast ballot in legislative elections

    Tunisian president cast ballot in legislative elections

    Date: 2014-10-26 09:15:28 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:1201297

    Tunisia's interim president Mohamed Moncef Marzouki cast his ballot Sunday in the legislative elections. A number of voters protested that the president did not abide by his turn in the queue. ....

  • Hamas testing rockets

    Hamas testing rockets

    Date: 2014-10-26 08:36:25 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:1200941

    Hamas tested two rockets early Sunday morning, according to Radio of Israel as well as an Israeli citizen who witnessed one of the launches from near the Gaza border. The rockets were launched from what used to be Gush Katif, in Gaza. The ....

  • 2 Libyan army soldiers killed, 13 wounded in clashes in Benghazi

    2 Libyan army soldiers killed, 13 wounded in clashes in Benghazi

    Date: 2014-10-26 08:23:29 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:1200769

    Two Libyan army soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in clashes with rebel forces in Benghazi on Sunday, a military source said. Heavy losses were also reported within the rank of Benghazi Shura Council revolutionists, said the source told ....

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