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Ban appoints Italian Major General Portolano to head UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon
Date: 2014-06-17 08:06:54 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:782181
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Luciano Portolano of Italy as the new head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). “Major General Portolano has had a long and distinguished military career,” stated ....
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Israeli warplanes raid the Gaza Strip
Date: 2014-06-17 06:18:41 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:782024
Israeli warplanes raided different parts of the Gaza Strip at dawn on Tuesday. No casualties were reported. Palestinian sources said one air strike targeted, with at least one rocket, an empty piece of land near the western gate of Asdaa ....
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President Obama deploys 275 troops to Iraq
Date: 2014-06-17 06:10:24 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:782008
US President Barack Obama has notified Congress that about 275 U.S. military personnel could deploy to Iraq. Obama says the forces are going to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. He says the forces ....
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Berri sends condemnation letter to Abbas on arrestting Doueik
Date: 2014-06-16 14:42:04 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:65 - ID:781309
Speaker of the Lebanese House Nabih Berri sent a message to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas whereby he condemned the repressive measures taken by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, including the arrest of the Speaker ....
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Israel faces another mass release of Palestinian prisoners after abduction of Jewish teens
Date: 2014-06-16 14:40:19 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:63 - ID:781306
Israel, amid efforts to restrict prisoner exchanges, faces the prospect of another massive release of Palestinian insurgents, according to WorldTribune Newspaper. Israeli sources said the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ....
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WHO warns against deteriorating health, humanitarian conditions in Iraq
Date: 2014-06-16 11:54:08 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:50 - ID:780845
World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office spokesperson Rana Sidani warned against the deterioration of the health and humanitarian conditions in Iraq. She highlighted also that there is about 25.000 displaced people from Mosul and the ....
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Abbas, Netanyahu discuss kidnap of Jewish settlers, Israeli escalation
Date: 2014-06-16 11:04:14 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:49 - ID:780788
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday conferred over the phone on the disappearance of three Jewish settlers and recent Israeli escalation. Israeli security forces have launched a mass search ....
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Palestinian presidency urges all parties not to resort to violence whatsoever
Date: 2014-06-16 09:40:13 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:780540
Palestinian Presidency on Monday condemned the developments that took place in the territories over the past week, including the abduction of three Israeli settlers and the Israeli recurrent offensive in the West Bank over the past three days. In ....
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US embassy in Baghdad to send some personnel out
Date: 2014-06-16 09:34:47 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:37 - ID:780529
With Baghdad threatened by the advance of an al-Qaida-inspired insurgency, the State Department is reinforcing security at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq’s capital — and sending some personnel out of town, The Washington Post said Monday. Much of the ....
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Four unidentified bodies found in northern Baghdad
Date: 2014-06-16 09:22:39 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:780471
Iraqi security forces found four unidentified bodies in northern the Iraqi capital on Monday, an Iraqi police source said. The bodies, showered with bullets, were found thrown on the road at Al-Bonouk district in northern Baghdad, the source ....
