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Gunmen kill military police officer in Benghazi
Date: 2014-09-03 07:22:27 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:903815
Unidentified gunmen assassinated a military police officer in Benghazi, a source at El-Galaa hospital said on Wednesday. The body of the 60-year-old man, identified as Idris el-Awami, was found near an eye hospital in Benghaz with a bullet in the ....
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Libya parl't speaker meets British envoy
Date: 2014-09-03 07:09:59 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:903790
Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Akila Saleh met on Tuesday with Britain's Libya Special Envoy Jonathan Powell in the eastern town of Tobruk. The meeting tackled the latest developments in Libya and prospects of cooperation between ....
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Benghazi Univ. study suspended sine die over violence
Date: 2014-09-03 07:07:30 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:10 - ID:903787
Benghazi University Council Tuesday suspended study at the Libyan facility sine die over security concerns. In a statement, the university said its administrative activities would go on. The suspension decision was made out of discussions ....
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800 Egyptian teachers needed in Oman - diplomat
Date: 2014-09-03 06:58:40 GMT - Sultanate of Oman - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:903770
Oman's ambassador to Egypt and its Permanent Representative to the Arab League Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Harthy said on Tuesday that 800 Egyptian teachers were hired for work in the Sultanate. About 1,000 Egyptian teachers signed contracts to ....
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Israeli army shoots Palestinian dead in Nablus
Date: 2014-09-03 06:49:56 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:903706
Israeli forces shot on Tuesday a Palestinian youth dead in southern Nablus, near Qalqilya, a security source said. The sources identified the slain as Mohamad Naeem Sabry. Meantime, an Israeli media outlets said a Palestinian suspected of ....
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UK envoy stresses importance of inclusive national dialogue
Date: 2014-09-03 06:47:48 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:903752
Britain's Libya Special Envoy Jonathan Powell stressed Tuesday the importance of engaging in inclusive national dialogue to reach a compromise that could put an end to the Libya crisis. Powell's remarks came amid his visit to the Libyan ....
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Security forces intensify measures around Iraqi parl't
Date: 2014-09-03 06:42:34 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:903742
Squads of Iraqi special forces cordoned off the Iraqi Parliament building Tuesday after being stormed by families of soldiers abducted by Daesh terrorists. Earlier, relatives of Iraqi soldiers killed in a battle with Daesh previously referred to ....
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French FM lauds Egypt efforts to reach Gaza ceasefire
Date: 2014-09-02 15:10:00 GMT - France - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:903168
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that his talks with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry tackled the situation in a number of Middle East countries. The situation in the Palestinian territories, Israel and Iraq was ....
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Hamas urges Fatah to stop media campaign against it
Date: 2014-09-02 13:53:46 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:903032
The Palestinian Hamas movement called Tuesday on its rival in the West Bank, Fatah, to stop a media campaign against it and send a delegation to Gaza to resume reconciliation talks. "We urge Fatah to give priority to the high national interests ....
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Daesh militants accused of ethnic cleansing
Date: 2014-09-02 09:50:18 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:11 - ID:902489
Amnesty International says it has new evidence Daesh militants are carrying out "a wave of ethnic cleansing" against minorities in northern Iraq. The human rights group said the so-called IS had turned the region into "blood-soaked killing ....