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Libyan govt assures citizens about situation in southern Tripoli
Date: 2014-05-17 07:33:50 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:725841
The Libyan government has assured citizens about the security situation in areas southern Tripoli, stressing a state of calm is prevailing and everything is under control. The government urged revolutionaries not to give in to rumors that aim to ....
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UN chief condemns water cut off in Aleppo
Date: 2014-05-17 07:28:00 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:14 - ID:725943
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is concerned by reports that water supplies in the city of Aleppo were deliberately cut off by armed groups for eight days, depriving at least 2.5 million people of access to safe water for drinking and ....
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Sporadic clashes between Israeli forces, Palestinian youths Al Quds
Date: 2014-05-17 07:00:25 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:725906
Sporadic clashes erupted on Friday between Israeli forces and Palestinian youths in Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem). The youths were protesting against suppressing a peaceful rally in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners on ....
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16 ISIL militants killed in Iraq – official
Date: 2014-05-17 06:25:56 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:725839
Sixteen members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were shot dead while 5 vehicles carrying machine guns were destroyed in a wide scale security campaign in Babil, the security chief of Babil said. Iraqi police conducted the ....
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FSA shells Civil Defense building
Date: 2014-05-16 16:33:47 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:725450
The Free Syrian Army has shelled the civil defense building in the city of Aleppo, Syrian activists told Al-Arabiya news channel. The FSA has made a progress in Hama after fierce battles with Daash elements in the city, the channel said. ....
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Arab information ministers wrap up 45th session
Date: 2014-05-15 17:46:20 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:41 - ID:723967
The 45th session of the council of Arab information ministers wrapped up Thursday at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. The meeting tackled a raft of issues, mainly ways of implementing the Arab League's recent resolutions in the field of ....
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Hamas: Palestinians to continue struggling against Israeli occupation
Date: 2014-05-15 13:54:14 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:32 - ID:723488
Hamas movement stressed that it would continue struggling against the Israeli occupation by all means, including armed resistance. In a press statement released on Thursday on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, ....
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AL : Israel must allow vaccinations for children to enter into Gaza
Date: 2014-05-15 13:40:41 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:723461
The Arab League (AL) called on the international community to intervene and force Israel to let in vaccinations for the children in the blockaded Gaza Strip. The AL in a statement today urged the Arab health ministers, the WHO and UNICEF to work ....
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Lebanon's Berri postpones residential election session till May 22
Date: 2014-05-15 13:26:37 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:723433
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, adjourned the presidential election session till May 22 due to the lack of quorum. Lebanon's Official News Agency (NNA) reported that only 73 lawmakers out of 128 were present at parliament for ....
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Abbas says Palestinian issue on top of world leaders' agenda
Date: 2014-05-15 08:07:53 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:8 - ID:722544
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asserted Wednesday that the Palestinian issue is among the key topics on the world leaders' agenda given its significance as a national liberation cause of a great country. In a speech addressed to Palestinians ....