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  • Michel Suleiman leaves presidential palace

    Michel Suleiman leaves presidential palace

    Date: 2014-05-24 18:08:57 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:740535

    Lebanese President Michel Suleiman left the presidential palace located near Beirut ending his term in office on Saturday. Suleiman and his wife bid farewell to the workers at the palace before leaving, a source at the Lebanese presidency told ....

  • Jordanian monarch, his spouse welcome Pope of Vatican

    Jordanian monarch, his spouse welcome Pope of Vatican

    Date: 2014-05-24 12:37:18 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:49 - ID:739982

    Jordanian King Abdullah II and his spouse on Saturday welcomed Vatican Pope Francis I at Husseineiya Palace. The Pope was given a red-carpet reception attended by top Jordanian officials including Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, Head of the ....

  • AL chief takes part in conf. on pan-Arab human rights court in Manama

    AL chief takes part in conf. on pan-Arab human rights court in Manama

    Date: 2014-05-24 12:23:16 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:45 - ID:739956

    Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi left Cairo Saturday to take part in a conference on the proposed Arab court of human rights in Manama. The court would be a new civilized shift to protect human rights, el-Arabi said while on his way ....

  • Israel works on turning Jerusalem into military barrack during Vatican pope's visit - politician

    Israel works on turning Jerusalem into military barrack during Vatican pope's visit - politician

    Date: 2014-05-24 12:21:43 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:44 - ID:739951

    Israel works on turning Jerusalem into a military barrack during the visit of Vatican Pope Francis who is expected to arrive to the city on Sunday, said Fatah Revolutionary Council Member Demitri Delani. Delani told MENA that the Israeli ....

  • Algeria rejects US demand for military base

    Algeria rejects US demand for military base

    Date: 2014-05-24 10:56:18 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:38 - ID:739753

    Algeria has rejected a US demand to establish a military base in the North African country, a report says. Local sources in Algeria say the United States demanded the military base as part of its plan to mount aerial surveillance in the Africa ....

  • 9 workers of Iranian company killed, wounded in Baqouba blast

    9 workers of Iranian company killed, wounded in Baqouba blast

    Date: 2014-05-24 10:30:05 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:739508

    Nine workers of an Iranian company in charge of extending a gas pipeline in Iraq were killed and injured in a bomb blast in Baqouba. A roadside bomb went off Saturday morning near Khazraj town targeting a car that was ferrying the workers to the ....

  • Qaeda fighters launch attacks in Yemen

    Qaeda fighters launch attacks in Yemen

    Date: 2014-05-24 10:28:19 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:739696

    Al-Qaeda fighters have launched a series of attacks on army camps and public buildings in a southeastern town in Yemen, security sources said. The attacks on Friday night in Seyoun, the second biggest town in Hadramout province, led to fierce ....

  • Preparations for Pope's visit of Holy Land completed

    Preparations for Pope's visit of Holy Land completed

    Date: 2014-05-24 09:17:35 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:739524

    All official preparations for the reception of Vatican Pope Francis, who will arrive on Sunday, have been completed. Father Jamal Khader, the Rector of the Latin Patriarchate Seminary in Beit Jala and the official spokesman for the Pope’s visit, ....

  • SPLM-N calls on National Umma Party to join forces to overthrow regime

    SPLM-N calls on National Umma Party to join forces to overthrow regime

    Date: 2014-05-24 09:15:35 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:739517

    Secretary General of the rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N), Yasser Arman, has denounced the detention of the National Umma Party (NUP) leader, al-Sadiq al-Mahdi, calling upon the latter to work with the rebel alliance in ....

  • Grad rockets fell in Tripoli district

    Grad rockets fell in Tripoli district

    Date: 2014-05-24 08:51:27 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:739431

    A number of Grad rockets fell on a police training center in Salahuddin district of Tripoli overnight Saturday. No casualties were reported, a well placed security source told Bawabet al-Wasat. The rockets set trees in the site ablaze before ....

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