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Qatari emir visits Turkey for talks with Gül, Erdoğan
Date: 2014-07-16 10:02:50 GMT - Turkey - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:829884
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani visited Turkey on Tuesday to meet with President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Today's Zaman reported. Regional issues including the civil war in Syria, ongoing ....
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Iraq speaker election blow to terrorists: Iranian diplomat
Date: 2014-07-16 09:42:00 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:829840
An Iranian diplomat says the election of a new Iraqi parliament speaker has dealt a severe blow to terrorists in the Arab country, Press TV reported. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on ....
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Israeli warplanes bombard house of Hamas's Mahmoud al-Zahar
Date: 2014-07-16 08:51:29 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:829727
Israeli warplanes bombarded the house of Hamas senior official Mahmoud al-Zahar in central Gaza late on Tuesday night. The warplanes fired three rockets at the building which was left in ruins, eyewitnesses said. Earlier Israeli airstrikes ....
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Bahraini King receives a letter from Iranian President
Date: 2014-07-16 08:48:58 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:829719
Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has received a letter from Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on the political developments in the Gaza Strip, according to Bahrain News Agency. The letter focused on attacks carried out by Israelis against ....
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Iran FM urges immediate end to Israel’s Gaza blockade
Date: 2014-07-16 08:47:00 GMT - Iran - Arab world - SN:17 - ID:829716
Iran has strongly condemned the killing of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, urging an immediate end to the Israeli airstrikes and the years-long blockade on the coastal enclave, Press TV reported Wednesday. "It is incumbent upon the ....
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Hamas will pay for decision to continue escalation- Netanyahu
Date: 2014-07-16 07:54:24 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:12 - ID:829613
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before a Security Cabinet meeting on Tuesday saying that, "Hamas will pay the price for the decision to continue the escalation," Ynetnews reported. "We will continue striking Hamas until we bring ....
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for rocket attacks on Tel Aviv
Date: 2014-07-16 07:12:01 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:829547
The armed wings of the Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Islamic Jihad have claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks on Israel's Tel Aviv city. Rocket salvoes were fired at an Israeli settlement, southern the Gaza Strip, Haifa city ....
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Ban calls on Hamas to accept Egyptian ceasefire initiative
Date: 2014-07-16 06:38:21 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:829520
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Hamas to cooperate with the Egyptian initiative for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. UN Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told a news conference that Ban spoke by the phone with Egyptian President Abdel ....
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Abbas in Cairo Wed. for talks with Sisi on ceasefire
Date: 2014-07-15 16:02:21 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:828979
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Egypt on Wednesday to meet President Abdel Fatah El Sisi. The two sides will discuss implementation of the Egypt-brokered ceasefire and means to stabilize it. Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu ....
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Palestinian factions continue shelling Israeli cities, towns
Date: 2014-07-15 12:30:15 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:828472
Military wings of the Palestinian factions continued shelling Israeli sites, towns and cities on Tuesday, in response to the Israeli aggression on Gaza. The Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Hamas movement, said that ....